Pills are also smart? Swallow to "diagnose" digestive diseases
[PConline News] With the development of technology, people have applied intelligence to pills. Smart pills? You may never have thought that pills can be smart. This is a new type of smart pill developed by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. The user only needs to swallow pills to detect the health data of the stomach. It can be used to "diagnose" the digestive diseases according to the measurement of intestinal gas. It can also be To help users understand their diet, it is expected to become a “artifact†that can recommend to users the diet that suits their physique for the continued development of future technology.
SmartPills are medicines that contain tiny sensors that can automatically release drug ingredients in the patient's body and feed back signals to the patient. The smart pill researched and developed by Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, a professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, is mainly focused on digestive tract diseases and can perform data collection and “diagnosis†functions.
Gastrointestinal gas is directly related to diseases such as colon cancer, irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease. Usually when we look at intestinal diseases in our hospital, doctors will use breath test to measure the exhaled gas in the patient's mouth. Traditional intestinal gas detection methods are not accurate and reliable. Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, a professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, said that the development of smart pills, through the launch of animal experiments, aims to observe the effects of high-fiber and low-fiber diets on intestinal gas. Therefore, this new type of smart pill can be used as a basis for measuring and analyzing intestinal gas to diagnose colon cancer, irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease.
It is reported that Kryosh Kalantar-zadeh, a professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, researched and developed this kind of smart pill that can also collect data in the intestine through built-in sensors and send data. To the receiver, the data is then transmitted to the smartphone via the receiver for easy viewing by the user.
In addition, Prof. Orosh Kalantar-Zade also said that the magic of this pill lies in its outer layer of film. This film is made of nano-materials. It allows gas to penetrate so that the gas in the intestine can pass through it to the sensor, and this membrane also prevents stomach acid from corroding the sensor. In addition, due to its presence, this smart pill also eliminates the potential safety hazards associated with dissolving the battery.
The team of professors conducted several experiments on this kind of smart pills in animals, and thus conducted more in-depth experiments. Prof. Orosh Kalantar-Zade said that the results of future experiments may also provide information on how to treat digestive diseases. For example, if it is detected as Irritable Bowel Syndrome, it may be caused by excessive bacteria produced by digestion in the small intestine.
In addition to "diagnosing" digestive diseases, this smart pill can also provide users with a dietary list that suits their physique. Since everyone's body is not the same, the food needed is different, like you may be more than others. For the need of protein and so on. The function of this smart pill is to analyze your bowel information and thus provide the diet your body needs. This aspect of the function still looks very human and practical.
However, I believe there are many friends who worry about the safety of this pill. Prof. Kalantar-zadeh said that smart pill batteries do not use lithium-ion batteries. Instead, they use silver oxide batteries, even if they are safely digested in the body. The battery life is about 4 days in the human body.
"This smart pill can pinpoint the source of gas and help us understand the microbial activity in the intestine. We have always had misunderstandings about how diet affects the body. This trial is the first step to eliminating misunderstanding. We must use iron. Facts replace this misconception," he said. In addition, he also predicted that the development of this smart pill project can be applied to the mass consumer market in the future, and people will no longer be troubled by digestive diseases. It hopes that this technology can help researchers design personalized diet programs or drug use to help people get digestive health.
Comments: Do you dare to take such a "smart pill"?
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