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T+ Medical and LifeScan Team Up to Manage Diabetes

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Written by Julia Hanf

Tuesday, 18 March 2008

by JuliaHanf

Diabetes leads to increasing blood sugar levels, which ultimately ends up in deadly consequences to the body like loss of vision, heart diseases, kidney failure etc. Diabetes has severe effects on Insulin dependents rather than non-dependents.

Insulin deficiency in the body causes diabetes. Insulin, which is secreted by islet cells in the pancreas, performs two major functions in the body. The food is broken down to glucose, which is used as energy for the body and it is the Insulin which helps to move the glucose, fat and protein into the cells where energy is produced. The second major function of Insulin is to lower the sugar levels, which tend to increase when the glucose enters into the blood. The two categories of diabetes are Type1 and Type2. In type 1 diabetes, the body can not produce Insulin whereas in Type 2 diabetes, body is able to produce Insulin but the cells in the body are not able to respond to the insulin. And in type 2 diabetes, it is hard to identify the disease in initial stages and the disease slowly and gradually damages the body.

Now you might be thinking, how you can treat this, right? Treatment is not that difficult provided you are maintaining your proper diet, doing regular exercise, stress controlling & Depression control. To maintain the equilibrium of the glucose level, it's important to keep a well balanced diet. If you have to define the well balanced diet, it should be healthy diet which should be low in cholesterol, sugar, fats & must include the green leafy vegetables. For type 1 patients insulin is the most vital drug. Exercising would also help you in maintaining the blood sugar level. IF, by any chance the above precautionary measures are unable to solve the purpose then oral medication is the solution. Researches are going on and the scientists are really putting their hard work to develop a new method which is more effective to fight against this disease. Once this research is successful, there will be no need of taking Insulin shots and this technique is getting developed by transformation of the stem cells of human into mice.

With more than fifteen million people in America suffering from diabetes, most of those people rely on daily insulin shots. Lowering blood pressure, blood glucose levels, and high cholesterol levels are essential in controlling diabetes. Diabetic patients who smoke have a greater risk of heart disease, so they are advised to quit smoking to help reduce their risks.

A subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, LifeScan, supplies hospitals and patients with blood glucose monitoring systems, meters, test strips, lancing devices, and software. T+ Medical is an institution that takes data received from LifeScan and transmits the information to a central database. Patients can view this information and monitor their diabetes via their personal computers or their mobile phones. T+ Medical was founded in 2002 to provide technology and services relating to the treatment of diseases such as diabetes. Their goal is to provide healthcare providers and patients with cost effective technologies to aid in the fight of these deadly diseases.

The venture between LifeScan and t+ Medical is going to be beneficial for doctors treating diabetes and the diabetics all around the world. It has brought together two different technologies and is offering lifesaving services to patients and healthcare providers. t+ Medical uses LifeScan's One Touch(R) Ultra(R) System to obtain the blood glucose readings. The One Touch Ultra system is a small device, gives accurate results, patients enter information and result is obtained within five seconds. This Blood Glucose Meter is a fast and simple method to measure the blood glucose.

About the Author:

Julia Hanf author of the book How To Play the Diabetes Diet Game and Win Through a real life crisis Julia figured out how to live diabetes free. Visit http://www.yourdiabetescure.com and learn more about your solution for diabetes.