BHOPAL: Without undergoing diabetes prick test, a study by Bhopal-based doctors is aiming at bringing positive change in lives of people living with diabetics and perhaps like in the case of a minority group by helping them lead a medicine-free life.
Using a glucose monitoring system that provides records sugar levels at a 15-minute interval all the time throughout the day, the research diagnosed 24x7 individual patients’ glucose level pattern. If a person’s sugar levels are going up or down, it is triggered by an event. Understanding the cause and effect relation, the team developed a customized diet plan for each patient.
A diabetic patient eats several different food items in a day and does several different activities without knowing about the real picture of the glucose levels in his body during the course of the day. Until now with fasting and postprandial blood sugar levels it was merely a guess work.
A generalised diet chart would be handed over to the patient and diabetic medication started. This never helped the patient manage his diabetes without medication, instead he would have to take the medication all through his life, said team lead by Government Homeopathic College Bhopal Prof Dr Nisanth Nambisan. A machine learning algorithm (backed by data from coin sized sensor over the skin), was developed to diagnose the root cause of rise in blood sugar of patients. “It does so by recognising the abnormal patterns going on in the body that too in real time, by continuously collecting 288 blood sugar levels in a Day and 4032 levels in 14 days.
After analysis of the data points of importance, the system narrows down to the cause and suggests corrective action,” he added. The corrective actions made 14 out of 20 patients in the study drug free, 3 patients could curtail dose of medicine, and 3 others started symptomatically feeling better.
Research conducted by Dr Nishant Nambisan, Dr Smita Nambisan and others, aims to help diabetes patients to live a drug-free life, we are trying to fund the world-class study, said Govt Homeopathic College Bhopal, principal, Dr SK Mishra. Dr Chanchal Jain, Dr Narendra Sharma, Dr Ajay Jaiswal, Dr Abhishek Dwivedi and Akhilesh Soni were also part of the team.
