Tuesday, July 12, 2011

What Conditions Need To Use Insulin Therapy

Core Tip: Use a lot of people on insulin will wonder, wonder when it will be treated with insulin, with insulin therapy need to pay attention to what the problem?
Insulin is a method of treating diabetes, insulin is a biologically active protein, oral, when stomach acid will destroy its activity, so that failure, it is not oral, injection only! Usually skin, muscle, intravenous injection, other methods (such as inhalation, etc.) is still under study, not yet achieved satisfactory results. The use of insulin a lot of people will wonder, wonder when it will be treated with insulin, with insulin therapy need to pay attention to what the problem?
In the case of diabetes which requires insulin therapy
Insulin is the only body to lower blood sugar hormones. Under normal circumstances the body's blood sugar level can be automatically according to varying amounts of insulin secretion, the blood glucose control in the normal range, if the lack of or inadequate secretion will have diabetes. According to the different incidence of diabetes is divided into four types: type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, other specific types of diabetes, gestational diabetes. One common feature of treatment is to lower blood sugar, but not under any circumstances to use insulin. Need to consider the use of insulin following circumstances:
1,1 diabetic patients: these patients can not produce their own insulin and must use exogenous insulin for life to sustain life, in the course can not be arbitrarily reduced or stopped, otherwise error-prone.
2, diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperosmolar coma and lactic acidosis and severe acute complications such as: the situation is likely to endanger the lives of patients, we must use insulin to control blood sugar quickly. Condition improved, under the circumstances to consider whether you can disable insulin, use other methods of treatment.
3, severe diabetic infection, tuberculosis, cancer, etc.; or combined eye disease, kidney disease, neuropathy and other chronic complications; and acute myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular accident, and so on: these should be treated with insulin, and other drug treatment poor, but also affect the quality of life.
4, need to do surgery diabetes: before and after surgery for some time should be used insulin to control blood sugar, surgery and postoperative rehabilitation for the protection.
5, found that diabetes during pregnancy, or women with diabetes during pregnancy, should use insulin to control blood sugar with other drugs may affect the fetus. During delivery of insulin to control blood sugar must be used to ensure safe motherhood.
6,2 diabetes through diet + oral hypoglycemic agents who did not get good control: These patients can be considered short-term use of insulin to control blood sugar, the disease can be selected after the turn after the appropriate time to use other methods of treatment, out of insulin.
7, removal of entire pancreas caused by secondary diabetes: type 1 diabetes, like insulin, must be used for life.

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