Sentences with phrase «injecting insulin»

Type 1 diabetics are insulin dependent, injecting insulin several times a day, primarily after eating, to control the disease.

(Again, these steps would be the same for injecting any insulin.)

Injecting insulin blindly — into a human or a cat — puts the patient at significant risk for developing life - threatening hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).

Many of the tips that I offer in the Transitioning Dry Food Addicts to Canned Food section of my Feeding Your Cat article can be used for diabetic cats but be cautious as you implement them if you are also injecting insulin.

Before injecting insulin, allow it to come to room temperature in the syringe.

The latter will result in injecting the insulin onto your dog's haircoat or onto the floor.

Similarly, if you have type 2 diabetes and are injecting insulin, reducing the insulin load of your diet can help you reduce the amount of exogenous insulin you require.

If you are injecting insulin to manage your diabetes then understanding how to quantify the insulin load of your diet can help you more accurately calculate your insulin dose (as detailed in this post).

And injecting insulin for type 2 diabetics, though sometimes prescribed, is decried as the wrong approach by others who consider it like pouring kerosene on a fire to put it out.

Obesity leads to insulin resistance, and our blood sugars start to go up, so our pancreas starts pumping out more insulin to try to force more sugar into our muscles, and eventually the fat spills over into the pancreas as well, killing off the insulin - producing cells, and we've got diabetes — in which case we may have to start injecting insulin at high levels to overcome the insulin resistance, and these high insulin levels promote cancer.

Insulin levels surge every day to try to control your massive blood sugar attacks from all that cereal, and eventually, your insulin sensitivity suffers, leading many people to type 2 Diabetes, and a life of injecting insulin with needles and stabbing your fingers every day for blood tests every day of your life.

There is less chance for error when injecting insulin on a keto diet as opposed to a higher carb diet.

I think my biggest challenge was to work out corrections (injecting insulin after a spike to keep blood glucose levels in range) It felt overwhelming and scary.

For Type 1 or LADA patients, whose pancreas no longer makes insulin, injecting insulin is a miraculous life - saver, just like taking thyroid medication when one's thyroid no longer produces that hormone.

My question is this, does injecting insulin to maintain blood sugar levels hurt the affects of fasting.?

When they has been perfected, they will remove the necessity of manually injecting insulin and they will guarantee the administration of exact doses every time.»

If it holds up, he suggests, diabetes patients might treat themselves with a weekly or even monthly injection of betatrophin instead of injecting insulin several times a day, because a dose of the new hormone could, in theory, prompt the growth of new β cells that could produce the insulin the patient needs.

To date, diabetes treatment strategies are based on patients either injecting insulin, taking medicine to make their body more sensitive to insulin, or taking other drugs to stimulate insulin secretion.

While diabetics can keep their glucose metabolism under general control by injecting insulin multiple times a day, that does not provide the kind of exquisite fine tuning necessary to properly control metabolism, and that lack of control leads to devastating complications from blindness to loss of limbs.

Her health is not good, but by injecting insulin twice a day and taking a handful of oral medications, she has avoided the worst complications of diabetes: kidney disease, heart attack, stroke, blindness, and chronic infections that lead to foot amputation.

The roughly 1.25 million people in the US who have Type 1 diabetes need to inject insulin to live.

My Type 1 must inject insulin for every carb she eats as her body is incapable of producing any insulin.

It is really helpful to have family and friends around in the first few weeks with a new baby, not only to keep the house in order and cook many delicious meals, but to fetch your insulin and blood glucose tester when you have a sleeping baby on you, or simply to remind you to inject your insulin or do a test.

I still have to inject insulin, though.

I would test my blood glucose, work out the carbohydrate value of my meal, inject my insulin accordingly and eat my dinner.

As a result, many people end up having to inject insulin to make sure excess sugar is removed from their blood.

As a result, many people end up having to inject insulin.

To control the disease, patients must frequently test their glucose levels and inject insulin to maintain the proper balance.

The insulin would be added to a cream containing the stinging cells; the harpoon - like cells would then inject the insulin directly into the skin.

Most diabetics today are saved by frequent shots of synthetic insulin, but the balance between blood sugar and injected insulin is a crude calculation.

This stresses pancreatic cells until they eventually shut down partially or completely, forcing patients to inject insulin.

This could eliminate the need for patients to repeatedly monitor their blood sugar levels and inject insulin throughout the day.

That would be a «a huge leap forward» for diabetic patients who currently have to check their blood sugar and inject insulin several times a day, says Omid Veiseh, a bioengineer at Rice University in Houston who wasn't involved in the research.

For decades, researchers said, insulin - based diabetes treatments consisted of three main strategies — inject insulin into diabetics, provide drugs that stimulate insulin secretion, or administer drugs that make the body more sensitive to insulin.

Many diabetics, therefore, must inject insulin into their bodies daily.

Furthermore, female rats were more sensitive to the anorectic effects of centrally injected leptin rather than male rats, which on the contrary were more sensitive to centrally injected insulin (262, 263).

Update (Dec. 6, 2013): This story originally stated that diabetes sufferers injected insulin intravenously.

To manage the disease, they either have to inject insulin or wear a pump all day.

People who inject insulin and who already produce the hormone naturally can see their blood glucose levels drop dangerously low — and if they don't ingest additional sugar to bring their blood glucose back up, the consequences can be fatal.

You won't have to inject insulin like it's going out of style because your body will be working more efficiently to burn up the excess glucose circulating in your blood stream.

While adding injected insulin can lower blood glucose in the short term, it doesn't resolve the underlying problem of insulin resistance.

If she can still make some insulin, then that insulin will be able to do a lot more to blunt the blood sugar peaks and will definitely reduce the amount of injected insulin she would require.

What started as, «If you aren't careful you'll get diabetes» turned into, «You'll need to inject insulin.»

If you inject insulin, then the muscle cells absorb glucose even quicker, so your fat deposits don't increase.

That is also why chemical athletes inject insulin after physical activity.

Fat can't be «stored» if insulin is impaired, hence why type 1 diabetics need to inject insulin so they can «store» the nutrients.

Whereas type 1 diabetics need to inject insulin several times a day to stay alive, type 2 diabetics do NOT need drugs.

Ask any T1 diabetic what happens if they eat a lot of carbs and not inject insulin...... toxic glucose has them in a diabetic coma with death soon following.

I've been aware of this disorder since I was seven because one of my grandparents» cat suffered from it and had to inject insulin after every meal.

Conversely, weight loss in overweight individuals is associated with a significant increase in insulin action, which results in a reduction in the amount of insulin secreted by your pancreas (in non-insulin dependent individuals), or a reduction in the amount of injected insulin (in insulin - dependent individuals).