Indications for insulin pump therapy

  The motivation or purpose of insulin pump therapy for diabetic patients is the key to the success or failure of future insulin pump therapy. Patients must know that even with insulin pump therapy, they must continuously exert effort and energy to reach their ultimate individualized target blood glucose. Therefore, to ensure that insulin pump therapy is not interrupted after use, patients should be fully prepared psychologically before considering insulin pump therapy. Patients who can successfully use insulin pumps often achieve very good treatment results.  Who is suitable for insulin pump treatment?  1.Patients who have a strong determination to overcome diabetes, want to have a high quality of life and freedom, can participate in sports regularly, are competent in their jobs, have no or less hypoglycemia, want to achieve normal blood sugar control, and thus prevent or delay the occurrence of diabetes complications.  2.The determination to adopt insulin pump treatment comes from the diabetic patients themselves.  3.Patients who have a certain level of education and the ability to learn and understand, and who can master new knowledge after training and education.  4.Have some scientific knowledge of diabetes (including diet therapy, exercise therapy, insulin therapy, etc.) 5.Have some economic security.  6.Patients who can insist on self-monitoring blood glucose 3 or 4 times a day (before three meals and at bedtime), and sometimes can detect blood glucose at 2:00~3:00 o’clock in the middle of the night and record it in the diabetic diary.  7.Patients who can keep in touch with physicians, nurses and diabetes educators frequently, get guidance and help from them, and keep learning, practicing, summarizing and correcting themselves.  8.Adolescents who often play video games can master the operation of insulin pumps faster than adults. Adolescents often benefit from pump therapy more than adults because for them, it is the pump that greatly reduces the restrictions on the amount of food and drink, the time of eating, the need to add meals, and other restrictions that they used to suffer when they were treated with subcutaneous insulin injections, and they can eat more flexibly, especially they can participate in some strenuous activities (playing soccer, basketball), enjoy vacation travel and other activities that they could not engage in in the past, and feel that their quality of life has improved.