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An Introduction to Needle Phobia

You must be one of them who are not scared to go skydiving but are afraid of getting shots. Well, you are not alone. You just probably have this so called trypanophobia which is commonly known as needle phobia. Before the condition was officially recognized in 1994, people who had this certain condition may have had to face some sort of scrutiny or unusual criticism from people. Luckily for you, this fear of needles is now officially acknowledged and there have been a couple of treatments to help you deal with it.

Technically, needle phobia appears in several types. These types include vaso-vagal, associative, resistive, hyperalgesic. In some cases, sufferers from needle phobia show symptoms even when they are not injected. In worst cases, symptoms include fainting or collapsing.

Sufferers of needle phobia usually avoid blood tests and inoculations as both involve the use of needles. But in worse cases, a sufferer is forced to refrain from all types of medical care that utilize needles. This makes a clear and notable problem especially when the person that has needle phobia also has a serious medical condition such as diabetes. Read the rest of this entry »

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Is it Possible Inhaled Insulin Will Replace Painful Insulin Injections?

Diabetes researches hope to soon be able to deliver to the diabetic market, inhaled insulin products to replace painful injections. There have already been breakthroughs offering promise of insulin being delivered to the bloodstream without injection among those testing out these inhalers.

Insulin inhalers would seem to be the perfect delivery method. The concept is already working in many blood-active medications. Medication that is inhaled gets into the bloodstream very quickly, this makes it fast acting and less traumatic for patients. Inhaling insulin would be equally effective for diabetics, whether they have type 2 diabetes or type 1 diabetes. You may even find that the insulin you need is a lot more convenient on the go.

So far the insulin inhalants being developed are just the fast-acting insulin. Until a longer-term insulin can also be inhaled, a basal insulin injection will still be required each day. Generally, this will be glargine. It will probably be taken at night.

Side Effects of Inhaling Insulin

Current research shows no major side effects of inhaled insulin in the short term. But there hasn’t been enough time to study long-term effects. Only time will tell whether or not there are dangerous side effects to taking inhaled insulin long-term.

Research on the long-term side effects that may result from inhaling substances like insulin focus mainly on potential lung damage and on how effectively it can control blood glucose levels. The latter is concerned more with whether it can control type 1 diabetes than type 2 diabetes.

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Type 2 Diabetes and the Search For a Cure – Will Insulin Inhalers Help?

Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease that must be managed for the rest of your life. It is true good management of this condition will help you to reign in diabetes right now, medical breakthroughs could occur over the next few years to change how medical science treats and thinks about this disease.

No one knows when a cure for diabetes may be found… if ever. More than likely, progress in eradicating this form of diabetes will come in hundreds of slow, painstaking steps, rather than in one dramatic breakthrough. All over the world, researchers are scrutinizing every conceivable aspect of diabetes treatment… insulin inhalers are one of them.

The pharmaceutical company Mannkind has a proposed new insulin inhaler called Afrezza. The concept for this device is that it could give type 2 diabetics an easy way to take insulin to lower blood sugar levels and keep them under control. Just take a whiff of insulin from your inhaler, and worries about blood sugar levels would be a thing of the past! But there are reasons Mannkind ‘s Afrezza and its predecessor, Exubera, are really terrible ideas for anyone who has any kind of diabetes.

Insulin has one tremendous advantage over any other medication for type 1 or type 2 diabetes. It always gives a lower blood sugar level. Taking too little insulin may not keep type 1′s blood sugar levels under control, and taking too much insulin may aggravate insulin resistance in type 2′s. Nonetheless, if you take insulin you are going to have lower blood sugar levels, even if only a little.

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