TOMSK, Nov 30 – RIA Tomsk. Scientists of Tomsk State University (TSU) developed a bracelet which will automatically provide patients with diabetes with insulin during a day: it will "impregnate" a skin with medicine without injection, it is reported on Monday on the website of the higher education institution.
According to the university, scientists of TSU suggest to forget traditional injections of insulin which injure a patient's skin, lead to psychological discomfort of a patient and can cause an inflammation.
"Unlike analogs this development is capable to provide the maximum speed of diffusion (penetration of insulin under skin) and excludes thermal injury of skin. Besides, the plates sated with insulin are disposable in analogs, and the porous plate of nikelid titanium doesn't need replacement. It is enough to impregnate it with insulin solution again that simplifies (use)", – it is told on the website.
It is specified that the device represents a bracelet. It automatically controls the mode and the dose of the injured insulin. The device operates as follows: the plate impregnated with insulin is imposed on the skin of a patient. Depending on indications it heats up with the infrared radiation within 30-120 minutes thanks to what insulin gets into an organism.
The scientists assume that the development can also be applied at treatment of other diseases at the corresponding adaptation, using the corresponding preparations.