A NOVEL APPROACH FOR PROCURING MEDICAL PARAMETER

This paper describes a novel approach for procuring glucose in saliva. Saliva is one of the most abundant secretions in the human body and its collection is noninvasive. To substantiate the role of saliva as a diagnostic tool, we compared saliva samples with blood glucose. If glucose in saliva is linked to glucose in blood it can be used to detect diabetes mellitus. With the help of glucose oxidase method using enzymatic kit GOD-POD, glucose oxidase and peroxidase the quantitative estimation of blood and saliva glucose level is performed. The correlation between fasting saliva glucose and fasting blood glucose is obtained. The values obtained between the blood and saliva glucose are found distinctly different between normal and diabetic patient. So, with the help of amount of glucose present in saliva we can conclude that whether the patient is diabetic or normal.