Diabetes itself is a chronic progressive disease. Injecting insulin is an effective way to treat diabetes. The use of insulin can alleviate the symptoms of diabetes. Because diabetes patients have insufficient insulin secretion, professional doctors will recommend diabetes patients to inject insulin for treatment. Clinically, it often occurs that type 2 diabetes patients' diet control and the most oral hypoglycemic drugs can not control blood sugar or are in a state of infection, acute cardiovascular accident, etc. Many diabetes patients still have errors in the use of insulin. When patients use insulin to treat diabetes, they must have a full understanding of diabetes drugs, so as to better alleviate the symptoms of diabetes patients. During the use of insulin, they must Get out of the misunderstanding and correctly recognize insulin. Nowadays, many patients still fall into the misconception of insulin use. Below is a popular science on insulin related knowledge.
1. Common mistakes in using insulin
(1) Insulin injection is addictive: When professional doctors persuade diabetes patients to inject insulin for treatment, many diabetes patients cannot accept it, and refuse to use insulin for treatment. They think that insulin injection is addictive. This mistake is wrong. Insulin itself is not addictive, and withdrawal syndrome does not occur after discontinuation. (2) After insulin is used, oral antidiabetic drugs cannot be used again: many diabetes patients cannot control their blood sugar after diet control and the largest amount of oral antidiabetic drugs. After a period of insulin injection treatment, due to the supplement of exogenous insulin, their own condition can be better controlled. In fact, most patients can control their blood sugar through simple diet, exercise, or the use of oral hypoglycemic drugs after stopping insulin use. The above viewpoint is incorrect. (3) The use of insulin will make the pancreatic islet secretion function decline: this concept is wrong. No matter whether the type 2 diabetes patients use insulin therapy or not, their pancreatic islet beta cells will constantly secrete basic insulin. This decline is due to disease, and has nothing to do with insulin injection. (4) The cost of insulin treatment is relatively high: in fact, insulin injections cost 6-12 yuan per day, which is generally not too expensive and many people can accept. (5) Insulin injection is difficult and painful: Many patients feel that the initial injection will be very painful, but in fact, insulin injection is relatively simple because the amount of injection is small and mostly subcutaneous injection, using painless needles or specialized syringes, which have less pain and can be completed in only 1-3 minutes. (6) Diabetes patients need lifelong insulin injection: not all diabetes patients need to use insulin. If oral hypoglycemic drugs can effectively control blood sugar, there is no need to use insulin. Insulin is only limited to certain conditions, not need to use insulin for life.
2. Correct method for storing insulin
(1) Unopened insulin should be stored in a refrigerator at 2-8 ℃, avoiding freezing and direct sunlight, and avoiding repeated shaking. (2) The proteins in insulin are more susceptible to temperature and sunlight, so they cannot be stored in high temperatures or places with light for a long time. (3) If patients use insulin, they cannot take it out of the refrigerator and use it immediately, because insulin needs to be injected at room temperature. Generally, after taking it out of the refrigerator, it is left at room temperature for 60 minutes to gradually restore the temperature of the insulin to room temperature before injection. Injecting insulin at low temperatures may be more painful.