January 5 2018: A revolutionary system that eliminates the hurdles of traditional glucose monitoring is here:no routine finger sticks. No finger stick calibrations.
Abbott's FreeStyle Libre system measures glucose levels through a small sensor applied to the back of your upper arm. The sensor, which is the size of two stacked quarters, provides real-time glucose readings for up to 10 days, both day and night. The sensor can also read glucose levels through clothes making testing discreet and convenient.
The FreeStyle Libre system provides people with diabetes three key pieces of data with each scan: a real-time glucose result, an 8-hour historical trend, and a trend arrow showing the direction their glucose is going. The touch-screen reader holds up to 90 days of data, which allows people to track their glucose levels over time.
By tracking and monitoring glucose continuously, the FreeStyle Libre system helps people and their health care providers to better adjust their lifestyle, diet and treatment to suit their needs. For example, the reader's snapshots can reveal if a person is experiencing hypoglycemic (low glucose levels) patterns or hyperglycemic trends (high glucose levels), which can aid in choosing the right diabetes management1.
Across the globe, more than 400,000 people are now using the FreeStyle Libre and the system has been clinically proven to be accurate, stable, and consistent. In India Abbot is marketing a different  version called  Libre Pro. The sensor is the same  and costs under Rs 2000. But the reading unit is not provided to the patient but to the doctor and costs about Rs 5000.  For a few days we have a demonstration video in our tech video spot on the home page