Diabetes injection generally refers to the injection of insulin and other injectable preparations for treatment, whether diabetes can be treated without the use of injectable preparations, the choice of taking medication needs to be divided into cases, type 1 diabetes, gestational diabetes is generally recommended to use injectable preparations for treatment, type 2 diabetes can generally take medication for treatment.
Type 1 diabetes patients due to the destruction of pancreatic β-cells lead to absolute lack of insulin, only by eating hypoglycemic drugs can not play a role in controlling blood sugar, you need to inject insulin and other injectable preparations for glucose lowering treatment. Gestational diabetic patients belong to a special group of people, oral hypoglycemic drugs may have adverse effects on the fetus, so insulin treatment is generally recommended.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is due to insufficient insulin secretion or insulin resistance resulting in elevated blood glucose, such cases can be preferred oral hypoglycemic drug therapy, including metformin, acarbose, etc., along with dietary therapy and appropriate exercise, improve lifestyle, most can control blood glucose stable.
In addition, when the number of years of suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus with the passage of time, later with the decline of pancreatic islet function, may also need to switch to insulin hypoglycemic therapy.
Patients diagnosed with diabetes are advised to seek treatment under the guidance of a doctor to choose the most appropriate treatment.