An apparatus for measuring ocular and/or blood glucose levels comprises
(a) an irradiating means (10) for irradiating light onto the eye (1) of a
user from outside the cornea of the eye to excite an ocular glucose
sensor in contact with an ocular fluid, said sensor being able to emit a
total fluorescence having first and a second wavelength bands; (b) an
optical path splitting means (11) for splitting said total fluorescence
into a first fluorescence and a second fluorescence, said first
fluorescence and said second fluorescence traveling along first and
second optical paths; (c) a first detecting means (14) located in the
first optical path; (d) a second detecting means (17) located in the
second optical path; (e) a calculating means for calculating the
intensity ratio of the first fluorescence to the second fluorescence and
for determining an ocular glucose concentration in the ocular fluid; and
(f) an arithmetic means for converting the ocular glucose concentration
into a blood glucose concentration.