Tattoos to Help Diabetics Soon

[Guest]

Yet another excuse for some body paint

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[Marco925]

Looks really cool!

My Nonno could've used this....

Too bad he passed away though. I hope I don't get it

 

[tbeardsley]

So its nothing like a tattoo at all...

 

[killerclick]

If God wanted us to know our glucose levels at all times, He would've made us that way. Stop playing God!

 

[scott_madison1]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]Cool idea, shame they dont have one that works with bio-luminescence. If you blood sugar levels get a bit high your tattoo's start glowing. That would be so cool.[/citation]

Excuse me sir your glowing! Please take my candy bar.

 

[icepick314]

[citation][nom]scott_madison1[/nom]Excuse me sir your glowing! Please take my candy bar.[/citation]

are you TRYING to kill him???!?!?!

 

[Talenzor]

".If God wanted us to know our glucose levels at all times, He would've made us that way. Stop playing God!"

LOL that's like saying if God wanted us to fly we'd have wings...

 

[leakingpaint]

killerclick - idiot, try being a type 1 diabetic for longer than 25 years and giving between 5 and 7 injections a day and then comment, and if you are a type 1 diabetic then you're just not thinking.

Do you have any possible idea how many billions are spent on F*****g test strips alone every year.

 

[Morgan3rd]

Absolutely fantastic idea! I wonder if there could be other tattoo applications. you could have a tattoo that might change colors if you were legally drunk, Or a tattoo that could tell you when you were dehydrated, or pregnant.

 

[insider3]

[citation][nom]killerclick[/nom]If God wanted us to know our glucose levels at all times, He would've made us that way. Stop playing God![/citation]

But I thought it was God that created the necessary resources and elements to invent such things.. We just took a bunch of stuff GOD created and turned it into our creation.. So I guess God wanted tattoos for the diabetic eventually

 

[silentq]

How many peopel would actually ink themselves to check their sugar levels? You still gotta have the device to interpret the color code. Diabetics manage their sugar levels pretty well now.
IMHO useless discovery with current application.

 

[boogalooelectric]

Its ok killerclic is just a douche who has no clue about diabetes or he wouldn't post such non sense.

I am glad of this technology my wife who is a type 1 diabetic (which means she had no choice in the matter unlike the millions of 300 + pounders who turn themselves into type 2 diabetics by choice) and is now on the pump. Currently she has to take her blood sugar between 6 to 10 times a day, and even then it still gets low or high sometimes and can cause her to die.

If she no longer had to check her blood sugar that often than her fingers could stop getting sore. Or she would not have to worry about forgetting any more.

Awesome discovery, even if it most likely will not help my wife as these types of systems take years of testing and most likely be too late for her. Still its good for the younger diabetics out there.

 

[boogalooelectric]

@silentq

I know many who would, take the advent of the pump for instance. In creating that device they eliminated the need to take 10 plus shots a day in diabetics. Instead they now simply reload the pump every few days. That is a huge quality of life improvement for them.

Take the issue of finger soreness for instance, because diabetics have to prick their fingers every time they need to test EVERY TIME. Try sticking your fingers hundreds of times a week and see how they feel at the end of the week.

Now ask yourself again if just getting a tattoo that does it for is worth it. Just getting stuck once when the tattoo is made or thousands of times over the course of a year. In other words you get stuck by the tattoo needle just the one time and don't have to worry about it again for a while.

Which sounds better to you?

 

[Sorbert]

Well im a type 1 diabetic and think this is great. have had it over 26 years now and when i was 15 a finger prick which i didnt clean well plus a fall gave me staph in my arm that was misdiagnosed for 2 weeks. So after nearly losing my arm and if this says what it does ill be all for it since no one will be able to see it except with the device on it

 

[festerovic]

this well help lots of people, I'm all for it. It really sucks to get needled regularly, even if it's just a little one.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]Talenzor[/nom]".If God wanted us to know our glucose levels at all times, He would've made us that way. Stop playing God!"LOL that's like saying if God wanted us to fly we'd have wings...[/citation]
Actually I think that is what they were getting at I don't agree but yea.

 

[LORD_ORION]

Up next, viagra tatoos...

Guess where they go.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]insider3[/nom]But I thought it was God that created the necessary resources and elements to invent such things.. We just took a bunch of stuff GOD created and turned it into our creation.. So I guess God wanted tattoos for the diabetic eventually[/citation]
It don't work that way, just cause we got the intelligence and resources to do this doesn't mean the big guy in the sky wanted us to use it, it's a test! We use it and we are wrong we don't and well some of us die and the rest stay cavemen or something.

 

[scott_madison1]

[citation][nom]icepick314[/nom]are you TRYING to kill him???!?!?![/citation]
Maybe I don't know how diabetes works, but couldn't it also show if your blood sugar was low?

 

[HalJordan]

I am thinking new kind of temporary tattoo if they could get the "ink" to be visible without the infrared light. Would let people decide if they want a real tattoo later. How many people have got ink that they regret?