A student has created a brand of jelly sweets that can help dementia patients beat dehydration, preventing life-threatening infections. The tasty fruity drops were invented by Lewis Hornby after his grandmother Pat was rushed to hospital suffering with severe dehydration. Studies show the elderly, especially with dementia, often forget to drink and the resulting dehydration can lead to urinary tract infections. Instead of displaying the result with a coloured line, the urine test allows users to feel it, via a line of bumps on the front of the device. Traditional urine tests are made using dye, which changes colour when it reacts with a hormone released during pregnancy.

Source: Daily Mail November 28, 2020 22:07 UTC