Insulin can be injected long-term? Is it harmful to the body? Make it clear at one time, sugar friends may wish to take a look
We all know that insulin injection therapy is one of the typical ways to treat diabetes.
However, not all diabetic patients require insulin injections, because diabetes is clinically divided into different types, and different patients have different symptoms and severity of the disease.
From a clinical point of view, only patients with type 1 diabetes are affected by the absolute deficiency of insulin secretion. After diagnosis, they need insulin injections for treatment , and they need lifelong insulin injections instead of treatment.
However, such patients only account for about 5% to 10% of all patients. The reason for this is that the vast majority of diabetic patients in China are type 2 diabetes!
Because the pancreatic islet function has not been completely lost in patients with type 2 diabetes , blood sugar can be stabilized by taking oral medicines and improving life and eating habits in the initial diagnosis stage.
Insulin combination therapy should be considered only if the long-term control of blood sugar still fails to achieve the goal, or the HbA1c is still greater than 7.0% after high-dose combination therapy with multiple oral drugs .
You know, the reason why insulin injections are needed is to control the continuous rise in blood sugar and reduce the risk of acute and chronic complications in patients . However, many patients are also concerned that long-term insulin injections may have negative effects on the body.
So the question is, does insulin damage the body, and what damage does it show?
1. Low blood sugar
It's one of the most common bodily injuries from insulin, but it's not inherently blaming insulin. Rather, the patient suffers from too much physical or exercise activity, too little food, or too much insulin, which ultimately causes hypoglycemia.
During hypoglycemia, patients may experience hunger, dizziness, weakness, sweating, palpitations , and even neurological symptoms. In severe cases, patients may fall into a coma and die due to hypoglycemia;
****## 2. Allergic reaction
A small number of patients experience allergic reactions after insulin injection, which manifests as urticaria, neurovascular edema, and purpura . The occurrence of such side reactions is mostly related to the impurities contained in the preparation. There are very few allergic patients with particularly severe symptoms, and even anaphylactic shock;
3. Skin reaction
Insulin needs to be injected for a long time. If the patient repeatedly injects one site, it may cause local skin redness, fever, small indurations and other problems.
In addition, when young women and children with diabetes inject insulin into the thigh, abdominal wall and other areas, it may also cause subcutaneous fat atrophy or hyperplasia, and the fat shrinks into a pitted sebum loss .
When some men inject in the buttocks, the subcutaneous tissue will also increase into hard lumps , sometimes there is numbness and tingling, which may affect the absorption of the drug. In this case, the injection site should be replaced in time;
4. Drug resistance
A very small number of people with diabetes may develop insulin resistance. The daily insulin requirement exceeds 200 units for more than 8 hours. At the same time, the patient has type 1 diabetes caused by no ketoacidosis or endocrine disease, which is clinically called insulin resistance.
Finally, it should be emphasized that insulin is actually a drug that lowers blood sugar, and it does not cause damage to detoxification organs such as the liver and kidneys.
Therefore, there is absolutely no need to worry about the side effects of insulin. Only when the above four problems occur, do patients really need to seek medical advice in a timely manner, and then adjust the medication according to the doctor's recommendations.****