Novel noninvasive techniques in management of diabetes
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a life‑threatening disease, because of this people initially goes for insulin injections but the inconvenience leads to the
development of noninvasive techniques, which has recently replaced the insulin injection. These techniques overcome the
barrier for the insulin treatment and ultimately control the glucose level of patient effectively than invasive technique. In
these review, an attempt has been made to cover overall techniques available for diabetes treatment noninvasively. In an
attempt of this, data has been collected, which includes insulin delivery via oral, nasal, pulmonary, rectal, buccal and ocular
route. Along with these devices available in the market and under trials for diabetes treatment has also been covered. As this disease requires continuous treatment, it is advisable to go with noninvasive means of insulin delivery.
Key words: Diabetes, insulin, iontophoresis, sonophoresis, pulmonary
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