NANO TECHNOLOGY: A NEW THERAPEUTIC APPROACH FOR DIABETES

Nano technology an exciting area of scientific development offers ways to create smaller, cheaper, lighter devices that can help to do better. The current literature has recognized and reported many possibility and applications of nano technology. The medical applications of nano technology are tremendous and could give medicine including the treatment of diabetes a new therapeutic approach. The frequency of diabetes is growing rapidly all over the globe at an alarming rate. Hence, the application of nano technology plays a very vital role in diabetes. Nano technology is useful in detection of even very minute amounts of insulin and blood sugar levels in the body. The treatment of diabetes includes proper delivery of insulin into blood stream which can be attained by nano technology by developing oral insulin which can make patient comfortable and patient compliance. Development of artificial pancreas can also be accomplished by using nano technology. Silicon boxes can also be implanted under the skin of diabetic patient that could temporarily restore the bodies’ glucose feedback loop. Without the need of powerful immunosuppressant’s that is acquired by nano technology. Another important approach of nano technology is a nano pump which injects insulin to the patient’s body at a constant rate balancing the amount of sugar in blood. And also can administer the small drug doses over a prolong period of time. Therefore, nano technology a new mode of treatment may help in making the everyday lives of millions of diabetics patients more tolerable. Key words: Diabetes mellitus, nanotechnology and nanoparticals