New Chewing Gum to Treat Diabetes
So you don't like taking those big Metformin tablets because they're hard to swallow, taste awful, and what's more, they really do major damage to your stomach. Well, there may be an alternative sometime in the near future. Now in the testing phase, a chewing-gum product, called MetControl, will be given to 36 volunteer patients to test its speed and efficacy compared with that of immediate-release metformin pills according to the manufacturer, Generex Biotechnology Corporation of Toronto, Canada. Generex believes that metformin in good-tasting chewing gum would make it more acceptable to patients and thereby increase adherence with diabetes therapy.
