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In the management and treatment of diabetes, the constant measurement of blood glucose is essential.
Diabetes is well controlled when you regularly monitor your blood glucose and, depending on the measured values, you define yourself personally. the dose of insulin you need.
The regular self-monitoring of blood glucose allows you to intervene personally in the control of diabetes: so you can understand if the therapy you are following is the right one or if the insulin dose needs to be adjusted
Diabetes is well controlled when you monitor your blood sugar regularly and, depending on the measured values, you personally determine the amount of insulin you need. Regular self-monitoring of blood glucose allows you to personally intervene in diabetes control. It is thus possible to understand if the therapy that is followed is the right one or if the dose of insulin has to be adjusted
The frequency of the measurement depends on the therapy of diabetes, but in the most serious cases it also reaches 3-4 measurements every day, which is equivalent to piercing the fingers each time, to collect the amount of blood necessary for the measurement.
But from today there is one more possibility: Piedmontese patients suffering from diabetes mellitus in the most severe forms; need at least 150 monthly measurements can now be controlled simply by using a patch and a smartphone, provided free of charge by the regional health system.
It is called "Flash glucose monitoring" and is the system that the Piedmont region has introduced with the resolution presented by Health Advisor Antonio Saitta and approved at the session of the Regional Council of today. hui.
It is estimated that the new method will be used by approximately 6,000 patients from Piedmont, those suffering from the most severe forms of diabetes, instead of the currently used system, the puncture on the finger through disposable lancets . It has already been used experimentally and, according to the studies carried out, it is able to obtain results comparable to those of traditional glucometers.
Monitoring is done with the help of a sensor that can be applied to the skin in patch mode. able to continuously measure glucose levels at intervals of one minute for up to 14 days, storing data for the last eight hours
With a reader or smartphone, you can see the blood sugar level in real time a graph showing the trend of glucose (ascending or descending) over the previous eight hours
A trend arrow can be used to badess the trend of blood sugar levels: it increases or decreases and how fast. These charts allow adult patients and parents of children with type 1 diabetes to take all measures to avoid serious glucose imbalances, particularly to prevent severe hypoglycemia.
In addition, avoid daily burglaries of the finger for the detection of blood glucose, the MGF system allows a significant improvement in the quality of life, as also demonstrated by several international scientific studies.
Health advisor Antonio Saitta then explained: "It's an innovation that makes life easier for patients, reduces their discomfort and improves their ability to control the disease and adds to the measures we have taken in recent years to reduce device costs, maintain quality standards unchanged and free resources to invest in patient care. "
" Thanks to this work and the savings achieved – it c Onlus Saitta – I can announce that we are preparing to strengthen the regional endocrine-diabetic network established last year.In the coming months, the Department of Health will develop a project to strengthen it, in collaboration with the coordinators of the network itself and patient badociations. "
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