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No, it is generally given subcutaneously andoccasionallyintravenously.

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Can you get so many insulin injections that your Diabetes is cured?

No. Diabetes is not cured by using insulin injections. You are giving yourself insulin injections because your body cannot produce enough insulin itself; therefore, if you were not to take the insulin injections you would have further detrimental complications. Once your body stops making insulin, it never "starts" making it again.


Does hyperkalemia get treated with insulin?

Insulin injections are used to treat hyperkalemia in emergency situations


Why use insulin pump?

An insulin pump can be used as an alternative to multiple daily injections of insulin by insulin syringe.This method is known as continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion therapy.


People with forms of the disease diabetes can be treated with injections of?

insulin


Fear of insulin injections?

Yes, but don't tell anyone.


What is the common needle size of insulin injections?

large ones


Injections which are not made in a vein or a muscle but just under the skin are called?

Injections just under the skin, so that you can see the needle while the medication is injected, are referred to as Intradermal. The PPD test for tuberculosis is administered this way. Injections administered into the layer below the skin are called subcutaneous. Insulin is administered this way. Injections which deliver medicine into a muscle are referred to as Intramuscular. Most immunizations are given this way, as are most antibiotic injections. Injections which deliver medicine directly into the bloodstream are referred to as Intravenous.


What is the only insulin that can be given intravenously?

Regular insulin is the only insulin that can be given by IV


What happens when Insulin injections are given without food?

Your blood sugar drops. Assuming you are a diabetic, which would be the only reason you would take insulin, your blood sugar would go down. If you aren't a diabetic and you are taking insulin this could drop your blood sugar to dangerous levels. Causing you to pass out.


When insulin is released how does it differ in a diabetic?

People with diabeties release less inslulin, which means they have to have insulin injections to increase the level of it. :-) x


What injections do diabetics insert?

Insulin - a hormone which their bodies don't make enough of.


Which type of diabetes may involve injections of insulin?

Type 1 :(