(IN su lin GLAR gine) Brand: Lantus, Lantus OptiClik Cartridge, Lantus Solostar Pen
• 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, famine, 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 glargine doze.
• Insulin glargine 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.
• Insulin glargine is a man-made form of a hormone that is produced in the body. It works by lowering levels of glucose (sugar) in the blood. Insulin glargine is a long-acting form of insulin that is slightly various from another forms of insulin that are not man-made.
• Insulin glargine is used to treat type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
• Insulin glargine may also be used for purposes not listed in this medicine guide.
• Do not use this medicine if you are allergic to insulin glargine.
• To create certain you can safely take insulin glargine, speak your doctor if you have liver or kidney disease.
• FDA pregnancy category C. It is not known whether insulin glargine is deleterious to an unborn child. Speak your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant during treatment.
• It is not known whether insulin glargine 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.
• Insulin glargine is injected under the skin. You may 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. You must not mix this medicine with another insulins.
• Insulin glargine must be thin, clear, and colorless. Do not use the medicine if it has changed colors or has any particles in it. Call your doctor for a new prescription.
• Use a various seat in your injection skin area every time you give the injection. Your care provider will show you the excellent places on your body to inject the medicine. Do not inject into the same seat two times in a row.
• Use a disposable needle only once. 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.
• The SoloStar injection pen contains a total of 300 units of insulin. The pen is designed to deliver from 1 to 80 units with every press of the injection button. Do not press the button more than one time for injection unless your doctor has predesigned a doze greater than 80 units.
• 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.
• Your blood sugar will need to be checked often, and you may need another blood trials at your doctor's office. Visit your doctor regularly.
• Your doze needs may change if you become ill, have a fever or infection, or if you have surgery or a medical abnormal. Your doctor may want you to stop taking insulin glargine for a short time if any of these situations affect you. Ask your doctor how to adjust your insulin glargine doze if needed. Do not change your medicine doze or schedule without your doctor's advice.
• 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, famine, 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.
• Insulin glargine 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.
• Wear a medical alert tag or carry an ID card stating that you use insulin. Any medical care provider who treats you must know that you are diabetic.
• Storing unopened vials, OptiClik, or SoloStar devices: 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. Store the injection pen with its cap on.
• Unopened vials, OptiClik, or SoloStar devices 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 after your first use: You may hold "in-use" vials or cartridges not yet loaded into the OptiClik in the refrigerator or at room temperature, protected from easy. Use within 28 days.
• Do not refrigerate an in-use OptiClik or SoloStar device, or a cartridge that has been inserted into the OptiClik. Hold it at room temperature and use within 28 days.
• Do not freeze insulin glargine, and throw away the medicine if it has become frozen.
• Use the missed doze as soon as you remember. Skip the missed doze if it is nearly time for your following scheduled doze. Do not use extra medication to create up the missed doze. You must not use more than one doze in a 24-hour period unless your doctor tells you to.
• Hold insulin glargine on arm at all times. Get your prescription refilled till you run out of medication completely.
• Search abnormal medical attention if you think you have used too many of this medication. An insulin overdose can reason life-threatening hypoglycemia.
• Do not change the brand of insulin glargine or syringe you are using without first talking to your doctor or pharmacist.
• 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 glargine. 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.
• Speak your doctor if you have itching, swelling, redness, or thickening of the skin where you inject insulin glargine.
• 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.
• Using determined medicines can create it harder for you to speak when you have low blood sugar. Speak your doctor if you use any of the following:
· albuterol (Proventil, Ventolin);
· clonidine (Catapres);
· reserpine; or
· a beta-blocker such as atenolol (Tenormin, Tenoretic), carvedilol (Coreg), labetalol (Normodyne, Trandate), metoprolol (Lopressor, Toprol), nadolol (Corgard), propranolol (Inderal, InnoPran), sotalol (Betapace), and others.
• There are much another medicines that can magnify or decrease the effects of insulin glargine 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 glargine.
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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