Painless Blood Sugar Tests?

Diabetes is a significant problem for many Americans, including a number of my family members and friends. In order to ensure that blood sugar is under control, diabetics have to regularly price themselves in order to draw blood and test blood sugar. It is a major inconvenience, and keeps many needle-fearing Americans from taking care of themselves. But now, a pain-free alternative may be on the way!

The size of a mobile phone, the instrument emits a weaker form of infrared, or near-infrared, which penetrates the skin on the finger and homes in on the bloodstream.
Out of the many components in the blood, the beam is able to identify bits of glucose through the frequency, or wavelengths, they transmit and the amount of blood sugar present would be displayed on the instrument in 10 seconds.