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Insulin And Treating Diabetes
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Type 1 diabetes, which is sometimes still referred to as 'Juvenile Diabetes' is the diabetes that some individuals are born with or acquire very early on in life due to organ failure.
The pancreas, to be precise, fails to yield sufficient (or any) insulin to regulate the amount of sugar (glucose) in the blood, which then becomes either (usually) saturated with it or devoid of it.
Neither scenario is ideal, so the individual with this problem, the diabetic, had to inject insulin each day and occasionally a number of times a day. The insulin they injected was derived from cows and pigs. Porcine insulin is still used to help diabetic dogs.
In 1977, it was discovered how to reproduce human insulin, which was much more effective on human diabetics and this went a very long way to making life simpler for diabetics.
Many diabetics developed a tolerance or resistance to animal insulin, which made it less and less effective. This problem almost entirely disappeared with the new 'cloned' human insulin.
That was in the late Seventies and now we are in the second decade of the subsequent millennium, over thirty years later and the state of affairs has progressed a huge amount in that time.
These days, there are different types of (human, cloned) insulin as well and it might take a number of check ups, before your medical doctor will know for certain which one is best for you.
For instance, there is Humalog, which is at peak efficiency within the hour and Ultra Lente, which hits its peak after around 18 hours. There are three things to consider when judging synthetic insulin:
Onset: the time it takes for the insulin to get to the blood stream and begin working
Peaktime: the time after injection that the drug is working at its most effective rate
Duration: the length of time that the insulin stays effective at regulating the blood-sugar level.
This means that a GP has a number of factors to take into account when judging which insulin is right for the patient. Cost may also be a factor.
The most welcome modern invention is the insulin pump. The insulin pump is inserted under the skin. It continuously monitors the blood-sugar levels and squirts out insulin to compensate.
Moreover, these pumps can contain several forms of insulin so that it is always ready to give you the type of assistance you need.
The insulin pump is far more effective at working out a diabetic's insulin requirements than a human, who often forgets or becomes complacent, and it monitors the bllod 24 hours a day not only once or twice. The majority of Type 1 diabetics now use an insulin pump to help them lead regular lives.
Type II diabetes usually stems from an insulin tolerance developed later on in life, often well past middle age. This can frequently be regulated with which tablets or other forms of medication. People with iron will power can frequently regulate Type II diabetes by diet and exercise.
Those for whom all the above fail, will almost certainly have to take insulin too and then they fall into the same category as Type I diabetics and a pump can benefit them as well.
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Article submitted Tuesday, January 31, 2012 & read 159 times.
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