Insulin Treatment Questions

All the needle length you mentioned are ok.
Smaller needles are associated with less pain.
With 4 mm needle you need not have to make skin fold.

4 fingers away from belly button. (approx 2 inches); as area around the belly is highly sensitive. Injection may cause pain in this area.
By the way, paradigms of diabetes have changed now, and we need to go beyond just blood sugar control to avoid complications of diabetes. And Ayurveda is proven to play an excellent role in this issue to help patients in correcting the diabetes pathology beyond bs control by insulin alone. I hv been a practising ayurvedic diabetologist since last 14 years ...more

Mr. lybrate-user, Thanks for the query.
There are many different types of insulins, some are for rapid action like Insulin Actarapid, which starts action with in minutes of injection and helps prevent after food glucose rise. Other Insulin has a longer duration of action, which will prevent late rise of blood glucose. Human Mixtard is a combination of fast acting and long acting insulin. Some are 30/70 & some are 50/550 combinations. Where 30% is fast acting and other part is long acting. Th...more

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In type one diabetes insulin production does not stop suddenly it takes sometime. Please follow advice of your doctor and adjust dose of insulin according to blood sugar levels with the help of your doctor.

Hello, Thanks for the query.
There a number of rapid acting insulins like regular or analogs, all are safe and effective to use along with Glargine. There is also a combination available with regular insulin, which can be used. Thanks.

Thanks for the query.
You are right about low insulin production in diabetes. There are usually two main types of diabetes - T1 DM where there is totally No Insulin production. This happens due to destruction of beta cells present in pancreas, due to an autoimmune process. Type 2, which more common variery is due either to lack of insulin or increased resistance to its action, mainly due to increased fat and inactivity.
When T2 diabetes is detected by that time almost 50% of beta cells a...more

The insulin dose need to be decided for you take the dose at the same time every day . Check blood sugsr in between to make sugar is controlled

Mr. lybrate-user, Thanks for the query.
T2 diabetes is usually treated with oral drugs initially. In some cases if blood glucose control is not adequate, then Insulin injections are added. So there are many patients who are given both oral tablets and insulin to achieve proper control of blood glucose. Thanks.

Lantus insulin is long acting insulin. If patients fasting/PP Sugars are not under control and and Hba1c is persistently above 8 % then some times it is advisable to go for premix insulin like humalog + NPH insulin for better glycemic control and maybe twice in a day injections. If you have recent post heart bypass surgery then it is very important to maintain Hba1c below 7%.

Use a 100U/ml syringe (orange cap) for the 100u/ml vial or use a 40U/ml syringe (red cap) for 40u/ml vial. As long as u dont mix them up, you will do just fine. All pen cartridges come as 100u/ml concentration only. Never mix up the syringes or pen cartridges