Is it possible to monitor blood glucose levels without drawing blood?
Not reliably. the was a product once called the Gluco-Watch (or something like that). It was made in Europe and never sold in the United States. it is no longer made, period. It was a device like a wrist watch that claimed to read blood sugar through the skin without breaking the skin. It’s readings were highly inaccurate! the American FDA would not approve it for sale in the US, European doctors spoke out against it, and the product died. it is NOT possible to include other readings (like hemoglobin or cholesterol) into the SAME device, because the glucose test strips cause a CHEMICAL reaction with the blood, thus changing its qualities, and making it useless for other tests. Simply put, there is NO “non-invasive” way to take a blood sugar reading. [The blood oxygen sensors work because as your blood oxygen supply increases, the translucency of the blood changes. So, they have a red LED on one side of the device (you can see it glow) and a light sensor on the other side (you can’t see
