Under the guidance of your physician, you can administer insulin by yourself after familiarizing yourself with the characteristics of insulin, blood glucose control goals, and injection sites.
1. Characteristics of insulin: Insulin can be categorized into long-acting insulin, intermediate-acting insulin, short-acting insulin, and rapid-acting insulin. Long-acting insulin provides a daily amount of basal insulin, which is usually injected once a day. Short-acting insulin and rapid-acting insulin have fast onset of action and short half-life, and are mainly used to control postprandial glucose, usually injected before meals.
2. Glucose control target: generally fasting blood glucose control at 4.4~7mmol/L, postprandial blood glucose less than 10mmol/L. According to the age, complications, different treatment purpose, each person will be different.
3. Insulin injection site: the patient injection site should be changed frequently, not always in the same part of the injection, so as not to cause the patient injection site hard knots or fat atrophy, you can choose the subcutaneous fat-rich parts, these parts include: abdomen, thighs outside, upper arm outside, buttocks outside the upper side.
Insulin therapy is an important and effective means of controlling high blood sugar in diabetic patients. Patients can take insulin therapy at home by themselves, but they need to use it under the guidance of a doctor, and choose the appropriate insulin dosage for injection therapy according to the patient’s individual situation. It should be noted that insulin injection should ensure aseptic operation, and the needle should be changed for each injection.
Insulin is a prescription drug, need to be used under the guidance of a doctor, not blindly used on their own. For more information about insulin, please consult your endocrinologist.