Smart Diapers Monitor Your Babie's Health Over Time By Testing Their urine

Smart Diapers With Useful Information About Babie's Health On An App

Usually parents are used to worried about their child health. They don't have any common means so that they can monitor their child's health regularly. But now worries are over for them to some extent. The solution to this problem is smart diapers which will test a child's urine to monitor their health over time.

Parents tend to throw away their baby's dirty diapers without hesitation — after all, they're unpleasant and useless after being worn. But a new kind of digital diaper may cause moms and dads to pause before taking out the trash.

A new diaper from Pixie Scientific could actually warn parents of health issues before they become serious. The Smart Diaper uses several reactive agents and an app to monitor irregularities in an infant's urine over time and alerts parents if they need to visit a doctor.

Aside from a square panel on the front, the Smart Diaper looks and fits just like a regular disposable diaper. On the inside, that panel contains several non-toxic test strips situated underneath the absorbent core, so they never actually touch the child's skin. Once the diaper is wet, the strips react to leukocytes, nitrates, and a variety of other substances.

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By taking useful data as well as by picking up on signs of bacterial activity from a wet Smart Diaper we can get the information about different health problems such as urinary tract infections, prolonged dehydration and developing kidney problems so they can then seek proper treatment as soon as possible.

Parents can then use an accompanying app to scan the QR code on the outside of the diaper, which is surrounded by the colored results of each test. The app will note down each strip's reading for that day, monitor any changes over time, and apply several algorithms to identify any notable trends. If it detects a potential issue, it will send an alert to the parents to make a trip to their pediatrician, who can run their own tests and consult the app's log if needed.

Parents can then use an accompanying app to scan the QR code on the outside of the Smart Diapers

However, Pixie Scientific emphasizes that the diaper is not intended to give a full diagnosis, which is better left to a trained professional. The company plans to distribute the diapers primarily to hospitals, pediatricians' offices, and parents whose children need extra monitoring the most.

Pixie Scientific is currently running an indiegogo campaign with a target of US$25,000 to finalize the Smart Diapers and bring them into mass production. The funds raised will go towards testing the diapers further in a hospital setting, registering with the FDA, and beginning large-scale manufacturing. Contributors can pre-order various packages, with the diapers costing about $5 each and the first batch shipping in October.

Smart Diaper packaging

Once the diapers reach the public, the designers hope to use the data gathered from the app to further improve their algorithms and they've already taken steps to ensure any information they collect is kept private. If they receive enough funding to reach their stretch goals, they also plan to study any possible trends amongst communities and develop the diaper further to detect Type 1 Diabetes.

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Write by: RC - Wednesday, July 17, 2013