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Classically type I, or childhood onset, diabetics require insulin and type II, or adult onset, diabetics can take pills. Sometimes type II diabetics require insulin as well.

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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.


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

insulin


How does insulin injection help a diabetic?

When you have diabetes like me, you have no insulin in your body or you just don't have enough.So by giving the insulin injection you get it in your body.Remember diabetes is for life.The most common insulin injections for type 1 diabetes is Lantus and Novorapid.


Which type of diabetes may involve injections of insulin?

Type 1 :(


Are hormones used to treat diabetes?

Diabetes is when your body does not produce the hormone insulin. So with someone with type 1 diabetes they have to do daily insulin injections. So the job of insulin is to level out your blood sugar level so yes the hormone insulin is used to treat diabetes.


What is the treatment for diabetes?

There are several different types of Diabetes. Most commonly, Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes treatment includes a diabetic diet and exercise. Depending on the severity and the symptoms is may also require insulin treatment often through injections or oral medication.


Can a dog have diabetes?

Yes, but it typically differs from the types of diabetes found in humans and other mammals. In people, diabetes is caused by low levels of insulin. In birds such as parakeets, it's caused by an overabundance of a chemical called glucagon. However, like humans, birds with diabetes must be treated with insulin injections. Because avian diabetes is usually the result of a separate infection, the bird can oftentimes overcome its diabetes over time, and no longer require insulin injections.


What are some insulin dependent diabetes?

Type 2 and 3 is a type of insulin dependent diabetes. Insulin is used in all forms of diabetes for treatment but in type 3 diabetes the body has no means to produce the insulin needed b the body and without continuous injections of the drug the body will shutdown.


What is a sentence for diabetes?

You'll get diabetes if you don't control your diet.His diabetes is treated with daily insulin injections.


What are insulin dependent diabetics?

Both types of diabetes can require injections of insulin. Type 1 Diabetics need insulin injections, while Type 2 Diabetics usually do not. However, due to certain circumstances, Type 2 Diabetics do need insulin injections.


Why are some patients of diabetes treated by giving injections of insulin?

Insulin is a hormone secreted by the pancreas, which regulates the sugar level in the blood. When this hormone is not synthesised in sufficient amounts naturally by the person's own body then the sugar level in their blood rises and the persons suffer from diabetes. Sometimes it is possible to control diabetes by diet alone, which means that injections are not needed, but most often insulin injections are needed to "top up" the body's own production of the hormone.


The form of diabetes that often begins in late childhood and is characterized by inability of the pancreas to make insulin is called?

A type of Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 or Juvenile Diabetes often begins in childhood and is characterized by an inability of the pancreas to make insulin. This is called insulin dependent Diabetes because people with this condition must take daily injections of insulin.