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• Take care not to allow your blood sugar get too low. Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) can occur if you skip a meal, exercice too long, drink alcohol, or are under stress. Symptoms include headache, famine, weakness, sweating, tremors, irritability, or trouble concentrating. Carry heavy candy or glucose tablets with you in case you have low blood sugar. Another sugar sources include orange juice and milk. Be certain your family and close friends know how to help you in an emergency.
• Also watch for signs of blood sugar that is too tall (hyperglycemia). These symptoms include heighten thirst, heighten urination, loss of appetite, dry mouth, fruity breath odor, drowsiness, dry skin, blurred vision, and weight loss. Your blood sugar will need to be checked often, and you may need to adjust your insulin aspart and insulin aspart protamine dose.
• Never share an injection pen or cartridge with other face. Sharing injection pens or cartridges can let malady such as hepatitis or HIV to pass from one face to another.
• Insulin is a hormone that is produced in the body. It works by lowering levels of glucose (sugar) in the blood. Insulin aspart and insulin aspart protamine is a faster-acting form of insulin than regular human insulin.
• Insulin aspart and insulin aspart protamine is used to treat type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes in adults.
• Insulin aspart and insulin aspart protamine may also be used for purposes not listed in this medicine guide.
• Do not use this medicine if you are allergic to insulin, or if you are having an episode of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
• To create certain you can safely use insulin aspart and insulin aspart protamine, speak your doctor if you have liver or kidney disease.
• This medicine is only part of a complete program of treatment that may also include diet, exercice, weight control, foot care, eye care, dental care, and testing your blood sugar. Follow your diet, medicine, and exercice routines very closely. Changing any of these factors can affect your blood sugar levels.
• FDA pregnancy category B. Insulin aspart and insulin aspart protamine is not expected to harm an unborn child. Speak your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant during treatment.
• It is not known whether insulin aspart and insulin aspart protamine passes into breast milk or if it could harm a nursing child. Do not use this medicine without telling your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby.
• Use exactly as predesigned by your doctor. Do not use in larger or less amounts or for longer than recommended. Follow the directions on your prescription label.
• Insulin aspart and insulin aspart protamine is injected under the skin. You will be shown how to use injections at house. Do not self-inject this medication if you do not fully understand how to give the injection and properly dispose of used needles and syringes.
• Insulin aspart and insulin aspart protamine should not be given with an insulin exhaust, or mixed with another insulins.
• After using insulin aspart and insulin aspart protamine, you must ate a meal within 15 minutes. This medicine is generally given with 2 meals for day.
• Just till using this medicine, roll the vial (medicine bottle) 10 times between the palms of your hands, before the medication looks white and cloudy. Then give the injection right away.
• If you use the injection pen, turn it upside down so the glass ball internal it moves from one end to the another. Do this at least 10 times, before the medication looks white and cloudy, then give the injection right away. Repeat this procedure every time you use the injection pen.
• Choose a various seat in your injection skin area every time you use this medicine. Do not inject into the same seat two times in a row.
• Throw away used needles in a puncture-proof container (ask your pharmacist where you can get one and how to dispose of it). Hold this container out of the reach of children and pets.
• Never share an injection pen or cartridge with other face. Sharing injection pens or cartridges can let malady such as hepatitis or HIV to pass from one face to another.
• Know the signs of low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) and how to recognize them: headache, famine, weakness, sweating, tremors, irritability, or trouble concentrating.
• Always hold a source of sugar accessible in case you have symptoms of low blood sugar. Sugar sources include orange juice, glucose gel, candy, or milk. If you have severe hypoglycemia and can't ate or drink, use an injection of glucagon. Your doctor can give you a prescription for a glucagon abnormal injection kit and speak you how to give the injection.
• Also watch for signs of blood sugar that is too tall (hyperglycemia). These symptoms include heighten thirst, heighten urination, loss of appetite, dry mouth, fruity breath odor, drowsiness, dry skin, blurred vision, and weight loss.
• Check your blood sugar carefully during a time of stress or diseases, if you travel, exercice more than normal, drink alcohol, or skip meals. These things can affect your glucose levels and your doze needs may also change.
• Your doctor may want you to stop taking insulin aspart and insulin aspart protamine for a short time if you become ill, have a fever or infection, or if you have surgery or a medical emergency.
• Ask your doctor how to adjust your insulin aspart and insulin aspart protamine doze if needed. Do not change your medicine doze or schedule without your doctor's advice.
• Storing unopened vials or injection pens: Hold in the carton and store in a refrigerator, protected from easy. Throw away any insulin not used till the expiration date on the medication label.
• Unopened vials or injection pens may also be stored at room temperature for up to 28 days, away from heat and bright easy. Throw away any insulin not used within 28 days.
• Storing vials after your first use: You may hold "in-use" vials in the refrigerator, protected from easy. Use within 28 days.
• You may also hold in-use" vials at room temperature. Use within 28 days. Protect from light.
• Storing injection pens after your first use: Hold the "in-use" injection pen at room temperature and use within 28 days. Do not refrigerate. Protect from light.
• Do not freeze this medication, and throw away the medicine if it has become frozen.
• Since insulin aspart and insulin aspart protamine is used till meals, you may not be on a timed dosing schedule. Whenever you use this medicine, be certain to ate a meal within 15 minutes. Do not use extra insulin aspart and insulin aspart protamine to create up a missed dose.
• Search abnormal medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222. Overdose can reason life-threatening hypoglycemia.
• Symptoms of severe hypoglycemia include extreme weakness, blurred vision, sweating, trouble speaking, tremors, stomach pain, confusion, and seizure (convulsions).
• Avoid drinking alcohol. It lowers blood sugar and may interfere with your diabetes treatment.
• Get abnormal medical help if you have any of these signs of insulin allergy: itching skin rash over the entire body, wheezing, trouble breathing, quick heart course, sweating, or feeling like you might pass out.
• Hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, is the most general side effect of insulin. Symptoms include headache, famine, weakness, sweating, tremors, irritability, trouble concentrating, rapid breathing, quick heartbeat, fainting, or seizure (severe hypoglycemia can be fatal). Carry heavy candy or glucose tablets with you in case you have low blood sugar.
• Call your doctor at once if you have a serious side effect such as:
· vision changes;
· swelling in your hands or foots; or
· low potassium (confusion, uneven heart course, extreme thirst, heighten urination, leg discomfort, muscle weakness or limp feeling).
• Speak your doctor if you have itching, swelling, redness, or thickening of the skin where you inject insulin aspart and insulin aspart protamine.
• This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may message side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
• Speak your doctor about all another medications you use, especially:
· albuterol (Proventil, Ventolin);
· clonidine (Catapres);
· disopyramide (Norpace);
· niacin (Advicor, Niaspan, Niacor, Simcor, Slo-Niacin, and otheres);
· pramlintide (Symlin);
· fenofibrate (Antara, Lipofen, Triglide), fenofibric acid (Trilipix), or gemfibrozil (Lopid);
· enalapril (Vasotec), lisinopril (Prinivil, Zestril), ramipril (Altace), and others;
· aspirin or another salicylates (including Pepto-Bismol);
· birth control pills and another hormones;
· diet pills or medicines to treat asthma, colds or allergies;
· diuretics (water pills);
· a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI);
· phenothiazines (Phenergan and others);
· thyroid medication (Synthroid and others);
· a beta-blocker (Tenormin, Normodyne, Toprol, Coreg, Inderal, and others);
· medicines to treat psychiatric disorders (Abilify, Clozaril, Zyprexa, Compazine, Risperdal, and others);
· steroids (prednisone and others); or
· sulfa drugs (Bactrim, Septra, and others).
• This list is not complete and there are much another medicines that can magnify or decrease the effects of insulin on lowering your blood sugar. Speak your doctor about all medications you use. This includes prescription, over-the-counter, vitamin, and herbal commodity. Do not start a new medicine without telling your doctor.
• Your pharmacist can provide more information about insulin aspart and insulin aspart protamine.
Remember, hold this and all another medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use this medicine only for the indication prescribed.
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