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Insulin

I was wondering if insulin is coloured.

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It is early morning. I am a Registered Nurse presently at work. The question came up as to which insulin to give first, the cloudy, or the clear. I was taught it doesn’t make a difference, and I just looked into my text book and it doesn’t answer that question.

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Now that I am a teenager I find myself wanting to sleep in on weekends, sometimes very late (noon) but on weekdays I usually get up around 7:15. I’m wondering if there is a general guideline I can go by for changing my insulin dosages when I get up late.

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My 11 year old niece, who has newly diagnosed diabetes, is taking the NPH/Humalog combination. I also have diabetes. I watched her get woken up several times during the night to check her sugars, and eating like she was on military time, but never getting the control I have. Is there some reason that kids shouldn’t take non-peaking insulin? Wouldn’t that be more flexible for a child?

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My daughter who is on four injections per day, was changed from Actrapid to Humalog and she takes Insultard at night.The problem is she has very high. She has very high oscillations in her blood sugar (with more tendency toward hyperglycemia). We are trying to figure out how to calculate her doses of insulin. Is there a method (an algorithm) to do this?

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Is a cartridge considered “unopened” when the perforated compartment is not broken or when a syringe has not been inserted?

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I have had diabetes for the last 32 years, and I take five injections a day. Four months ago, I broke out in a rash. They did a biopsy on one of the raised bumps which indicated the rash was caused by a medication. Can I be allergic to the insulin?

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Since the numbers for a sliding scale of Humalog looked liked 20,40, etc, I gave my son 40 units were taken instead of 4 units, his blood sugar dropped, and his pulse became very heavy and fast. Then I found out that the “0” was actually a “u” standing for unit.

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You have stated that a vial of insulin is only good 28 days refrigerated or not and a cartridge is only good for a week. My daughter’s diabetes team told us that Lantus last 90 days in refrigerator and Novolog is good for 28 days in the pen. Just wondering if it’s different for Lantus and Novolog.

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My two year old was recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and I have read several articles regarding new insulin delivery methods as well as islet transplants which I know are still in trial. When can we expect to see one or more of these new insulin delivery modalities in main-stream medicine?

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