New insulin pumps can be launched in 2016 – Sydsvenskan

The pump, which is about 10 by 15 inches high, has a tube that is inserted under the skin, usually on the belly. A separate measuring station belongs to and also added with a needle under the skin. The measuring station is in constant contact with a computer, usually a mobile phone or tablet with software that reads the levels and then sends a signal to provide the right amount of insulin.

– The computer can pre-calculate where the blood sugar is going, up or down. It may not be today’s varieties.

The pump, measuring station and the software has already received the necessary permits and now there are studies in patients, including Sweden. This hope Anders Peace is clearly below 2016.

A question mark, however, is the cost.

– A regular insulin pump today costs about 40 000 in purchases and then 20 000 a year extra in Consumables. Sensors for glucose measurement costs an additional SEK 20 000 per year, says Anders Frid.

With the new pumps will be a cost for the software and it is still unclear.

Almost 25 percent of all diabetes patients Type 1 has some form of insulin today. With the new, simpler model would be more able to use the pump, consider Anders Frid.

The new insulin pump would make life much easier for all diabetics, and especially for parents of children with type 1 diabetes, believes Andreas Bergstrom . Previously managed the parents measurement of blood sugar and insulin delivery using the so-called insulin pen with needle, but then a few weeks back, the three year old son got his first insulin pump.

With both insulin pen and pump requires constant attention to how the son feels and reacts. Since Elliot has Down syndrome and still not talking, he can not pay attention to parents on how he is.

– It is really tough. For him, for us parents and his teachers.

Andreas Bergstrom is convinced that the new technology not only can radically improve life for diabetics but also become a pure profit, financially, for the community.

– The appliance is perhaps more expensive. But the way it against the cost of any psychologist visits, separations, psychotropic drugs and lost days when everything not flaps.