Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Kenya: Injections are painful. But if your life depends on them, you wear a brave sleeve like 14-year-old Sydney Murimi has done, bearing two injections daily to stabilise his blood sugar.
He has diabetes type 1 and the pain notwithstanding, he has to inject himself daily, at 6am and 6pm to manage the condition.
However, advanced hormone research has sweet news for patients like Sydney following the approval of a new form of insulin that can be inhaled and has shown the promise of acting faster to manage blood sugar.
Patients will only be required to take a ‘puff’ through a hand-held inhaler shaped like a whistle instead of the traditional ‘shot’ from a needle-prick before or after each meal.
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/heal...esearch-ends-pain-of-daily-insulin-injections
Erm...injections are not painful, what is a pain is getting the dose right. Inhaled insulin does not address this problem 🙄
He has diabetes type 1 and the pain notwithstanding, he has to inject himself daily, at 6am and 6pm to manage the condition.
However, advanced hormone research has sweet news for patients like Sydney following the approval of a new form of insulin that can be inhaled and has shown the promise of acting faster to manage blood sugar.
Patients will only be required to take a ‘puff’ through a hand-held inhaler shaped like a whistle instead of the traditional ‘shot’ from a needle-prick before or after each meal.
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/heal...esearch-ends-pain-of-daily-insulin-injections
Erm...injections are not painful, what is a pain is getting the dose right. Inhaled insulin does not address this problem 🙄
