Is there a workable blood glucose monitoring meter that does not
require blood or urine collection, keeps a record, and can handle
both very high and very low levels?

[Man, you want everything, don't you? You forgot to say, cheap
too.

Let me see... keeps a record, no problem... very high and very
low levels, I suppose that's possible... but that does not
require blood or urine collection... that's more difficult...

The only way to get the reading would have to be through the skin,
since what you want is to know how much sugar is in the blood,
but you don't want to know it by measuring the blood... There
might be some way to tell if there is sugar in the blood by
measuring electrical resistance through the skin, but I can only
imagine it would be less accurate than by testing a tiny drop of
blood directly.

Another problem is that the results might not be similar to what
I and most other people are getting, which is with a Roche Accucheck
meter or a Johnson and Johnson meter, and even these don't give the
same results... so you would have a really hard time interpreting
your results.

There are some sensors, like a watch that is strapped tightly
to the wrist, and it senses when a diabetic is hypoglycemic and
sounds an alarm. These are a lot more expensive than a glucose
meter, and I understand they have to be really tight so that the
plate makes contact with the skin, and it irritates some people.

But they just sense really low blood glucose and then they sound
an alarm. I don"t think that they are to the point where they
can give you an accurate reading, nor is that the intention...
they are meant to prevent death from hypoglycemia, especially at
night when the person is sleeping and you can"t tell that he is
actually unconscious and going through a crisis.

Does anybody know if there is a blood glucose monitoring meter
that is accurate and does not require blood or urine?

Thanks for writing... Why do you want a meter that doesn"t
work with blood?
- Ellis]