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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1473669" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>I cheated a bit by reading this article!</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2903977/" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2903977/</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">"Despite the advances in the making of sensors with new and improved designs and materials, sensor insertion causes trauma to the insertion site. It can disrupt the tissue structure, provoking an inflammatory reaction that can consume glucose followed by a repair process.38–40 The interaction of the sensor with the traumatized microenvironment warrants the need for a waiting period for the sensor signal to stabilize, and that period varies depending on the sensor type."</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>There's lots of good stuff on that website, although some of it is paywalled. Most of it is way above my vague memories of H level chemistry from 30 odd years ago but I can usually get the gist of it. There was another article which said that, quite apart from the complexities of the electrochemistry involved, one of the, I quote, "serious difficulties" was finding glue good enough to stick for two weeks without causing allergic reactions - another recurring subject of discussion on this website!</p><p></p><p>I take my hat off to the people who design these things. It was only after I read a few articles like the one above that I realised that measuring glucose is really not the same as weighing a physical object. It's taking the glucose, breaking it down with glucose oxidase, and then measuring the electric current which comes from the breakdown. It's amazing that we're getting figures from that sort of twitchy unpredictable unreaction which are still in the same ballpark.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1473669, member: 374531"] I cheated a bit by reading this article! [URL]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2903977/[/URL] [INDENT] "Despite the advances in the making of sensors with new and improved designs and materials, sensor insertion causes trauma to the insertion site. It can disrupt the tissue structure, provoking an inflammatory reaction that can consume glucose followed by a repair process.38–40 The interaction of the sensor with the traumatized microenvironment warrants the need for a waiting period for the sensor signal to stabilize, and that period varies depending on the sensor type." [/INDENT] There's lots of good stuff on that website, although some of it is paywalled. Most of it is way above my vague memories of H level chemistry from 30 odd years ago but I can usually get the gist of it. There was another article which said that, quite apart from the complexities of the electrochemistry involved, one of the, I quote, "serious difficulties" was finding glue good enough to stick for two weeks without causing allergic reactions - another recurring subject of discussion on this website! I take my hat off to the people who design these things. It was only after I read a few articles like the one above that I realised that measuring glucose is really not the same as weighing a physical object. It's taking the glucose, breaking it down with glucose oxidase, and then measuring the electric current which comes from the breakdown. It's amazing that we're getting figures from that sort of twitchy unpredictable unreaction which are still in the same ballpark. [/QUOTE]
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