A novel way to tackle type 2 diabetes is through a pacemaker that carries mild electrical pulses to the stomach. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of the disease globally. The new matchbox-sized device that is implanted under the skin of the abdomen, triggers muscles of the stomach when patient is eating.
The gadget stimulates the stomach muscles causes them to release more insulin. This hormone is accountable for removing excessive sugar in the blood. The new gadget called Diamond- Diabetes Improvement And Metabolic Normalization Device is implanted under the skin. It carries electrical stimulation through two wires positioned in the muscular layer of the stomach. The wires are tunneled under the skin to the generator.
The gadget mechanically senses when a patient is eating, by identifying when the stomach begins its natural contraction. It blazes small painless electrical signals into the muscles of the stomach. These signals ploy the brain into thoughts more food has entered the stomach than the person has actually eaten.
To manage this hypothetically huge meal, the brain increases insulin generation in addition to activate the release of hormones that repress appetite. The patient feels full much earlier than normal. With a wireless charger, the patient can charge the gadget at home for forty-five minutes a week. A remote control allows doctors to regulate the electrical signals according to requirement of the patient.
The study trail conducted at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, showed that gadget decreased blood sugar levels by more than quarter in three months. Numerous large-scale trials are now in progress in Europe and US and the gadget has been implanted in more than two hundred people worldwide. This is an appealing notion that is used in US and in some European countries
If it does certainly reduce blood sugars by a quarter in three months, it would certainly have a future. The other innovation here is that the batteries can be recharged externally, which is not there in older models, explained Prof Nadey Hakim, consultant transplant and bariatric surgeon from Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust.