What is intensive diabetes treatment?
It is a treatment method to control high blood glucose to normal or near normal level as much as possible for diabetic patients, so as to actively prevent and control various diabetic complications. Intensive insulin therapy for diabetes is usually accomplished with 3-4 insulin injections per day. Insulin is administered by syringe, insulin pen or insulin pump.
What is an insulin pump?
An insulin pump is a battery-operated, computerized device the size of a BB machine that delivers a dose of insulin to a diabetic patient through a plastic tube with a small needle attached. The insulin pump delivers insulin to the body 24 hours a day according to a pre-programmed schedule, in such a way as to simulate the body’s own normal insulin release to the greatest extent possible. Insulin pump therapy technology is currently one of the best internationally recognized methods of controlling blood sugar, and is a new technology that perfectly combines insulin and syringes.
The basic principle of insulin pump working.
The infusion method is divided into basal amount and pre-meal amount.
1.Basal amount: continuous microinfusion, simulating the normal basic insulin secretion pattern of human body, mainly used to control nighttime, fasting and pre-meal blood sugar.
2. Pre-meal high dose: mainly used to control post-meal blood sugar, simulating the rapid secretion of insulin in human body after meal.
Those benefits of insulin pump intensive therapy.
1.Insulin pump therapy can achieve ideal control in a short period of time, thus rapidly eliminating the toxic effects of glucose, restoring the function of residual insulin cells, and improving insulin resistance.
2.Insulin pump uses short-acting insulin and does not use long-acting insulin, which results in small absorption differences and small blood glucose fluctuations.
3.Insulin pump infuses insulin continuously and in small amounts without subcutaneous accumulation, effectively reducing the occurrence of hypoglycemia.
4.Reduce the pain of multiple injections daily.
5.It can control the meal time more flexibly and make the infusion method suitable for your own physiological needs, so that you can live more freely.
6.Easily control acute complications.
7.Effectively delay the chronic complications.
8.The infusion dose is more precise and more suitable for brittle patients.
9.It is more in line with the working way of physiological release of insulin from human normal pancreas.
Who are suitable to use insulin pump.
1.All diabetic patients who need safe, effective and stable-acting insulin to simulate the normal physiological function of the pancreas.
2.Intensive treatment of early type 2 diabetes.
3.All kinds of concurrent acute and chronic complications.
4.Requiring stricter glycemic control: HbA1c <=6.5%.
5.Large fluctuation of blood sugar.
6.Recurrent hypoglycemia.
7.There is obvious dawn phenomenon (manifested as early morning hyperglycemia).
8.Need flexible insulin treatment plan.
9.Stressful and busy lifestyle.