Deans' stroke musings: Gatorade's sweat-reading hydration wearable is almost ready for prime time

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Gatorade's sweat-reading hydration wearable is almost ready for prime time

Send your doctor after the significance of using it for stroke. Your doctor does want to help you get better? Or are they lazy bums doing nothing?
https://www.wareable.com/wearable-tech/gatorade-sweat-hydration-wearable-2019

Hydration monitoring is all set to become a huge deal for athletes and amateurs alike - when they eventually hit the market. There is the LVL, but that has been delayed and it's unclear what the situation is there. So what's a person interested in hydration monitoring to do?

Enter Gatorade, who has teamed up with Dr. John Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering, biomedical engineering and neurological surgery at Northwestern, to create a sweat-reading hydration wearable, reports Twice. The wearable is a smart patch that's about the size of a quarter and slaps onto your body.

Read this: Halo Wearables wants to put hydration on the fitness agenda

Your sweat flows through the patch's sensors, with food dye being released to indicate the level of chloride in your perspiration. This will allow you to check up on both your level of dehydration and chloride with a simple glance. If you're an athlete, you can even take a picture and send it off to get a more detailed analysis.

The patch has been in testing with a number of pro and college teams, including the Seattle Mariners and Northwestern's swim team. That's right, the patch can be worn by swimmers while swimming. And while Gatorade has a benefit to helping develop a patch that can detect dehydration (so they can quickly administer them some Gatorade), the patch can also be used for more.

It's also being used in hospitals to test infants for cystic fibrosis, patients who are undergoing stroke rehabilitation, as their body begins to sweat differently, and those who are suffering from a kidney malfunction. However, all these use cases are currently in testing. The patch was mainly developed for sport and fitness.

Rogers and his startup company, Epicore Biosystems, are working with Gatorade on making the patch available widely at retail. He tells Twice that the sports beverage company has worked out a manufacturing flow.

While the patch can be theoretically used for several days if you can sterilize it, Gatorade and Rogers seem to be leaning toward selling it as a one-time use patch for about $3 a piece. There's no official timetable yet, but Rogers expects it to hit retail in the next year or two.