New hope for diabetics

Artificial spleen - a medical breakthrough - has just been successfully developed by British scientists. This device can help regulate blood sugar in children with type 1 diabetes.

According to the study, published in The Lancet, artificial spleen can monitor a patient's blood glucose continuously and provide insulin when needed.

This new device keeps glucose levels normal for 60% of the time, 40% of the time it will pump continuously helps provide the body with the amount of insulin that is predetermined.

A matchbox-sized monitor screen is attached to a similar sized pump that has insulin-injected tubes that reduce the amount of blood sugar to less than 3.9 mol / liter. - This level is considered to be mild hypoglycemia.

Aaron j. Kowalski, a diabetes researcher for children, said: 'Parents with children with diabetes often have to stay up every night to check their blood sugar. Many parents always have to live in worry that their children will not wake up the next morning . ' He said the new device helps reduce "dreams" of hypoglycemia at night.

In addition to limiting nighttime hypoglycemia, the new device also helps limit insulin overload - which usually occurs after children eat a lot of food in the evening.

This study is an important step in controlling blood sugar, and is also the last step to perfecting the development of an artificial spleen, which in turn greatly improves the lives of diabetics. Type 1, and minimize the risk of complications related to diabetes.