Diabetes self-care is a pain—literally. It brings the constant need to draw blood for glucose testing, the need for daily insulin shots and the heightened risk of infection from all that poking. Continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps are today's best options for automating most of the complicated daily process of blood sugar management – but they don't completely remove the need for skin pricks and shots. But there's new skin in this game (Philadelphia, PA) is developing technologies that would replace the poke with a patch. The company is working on a transdermal biosensor that reads blood analytes through the skin without drawing blood. The technology involves a handheld electric-toothbrush-like device that removes just enough top-layer skin cells to put the patient's blood chemistry within signal range of a patch-borne biosensor. The sensor collects one reading per minute and sends the data wirelessly to a remote monitor, triggering audible alarms when levels go out of the patient's optimal range and tracking glucose levels over time. 

I think that it might help because you wont have to draw blood so you don’t have to worry about all the blood and pain. When you have to prick yourself it hurts. They clean up will be easy because you don’t have to clean up blood.  It is just a sensor so you don’t have to worry about buying all those needles. It is a stick on thing. Then you use this thing that cleans off dead skin cells. Then you put the sensor on the sticky thing. Then you put their glucose level to calibrate the system. You will have to take it off when the sticky comes off.

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