Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Most people in this country have faced a diabetes treatment debate ? insulin or oral hypoglycaemics ? either directly or for a relative or friend. This is not surprising at all because there are 62.4 million diabetics in India (as per the phase I study by ICMR). There is no final word on which is better yet as doctors are grappling with various permutations of treatment, some personal preferences and emerging data on the most appropriate combination of drugs for optimum management of blood sugar.
Starting a patient?s treatment with insulin almost always proves to be a tall ask because of its association with the intractability of the disease. This perception is not correct, even though insulin is the second or third option to manage diabetes, behind a range of oral drugs which have various side effects.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/needle-of-doubt/971230/
Starting a patient?s treatment with insulin almost always proves to be a tall ask because of its association with the intractability of the disease. This perception is not correct, even though insulin is the second or third option to manage diabetes, behind a range of oral drugs which have various side effects.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/needle-of-doubt/971230/