(IN soo lin REG yoo lar) Brand: HumuLIN R, NovoLIN R, ReliOn/HumuLIN R
• Do not use this medication if you are having an episode of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
• Hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, is the most general side effect of insulin. Symptoms include headache, famine, dizziness, sweating, 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.
• Insulin is a hormone that is produced in the body. It works by lowering levels of glucose (sugar) in the blood. Regular insulin is a short-acting form of insulin.
• Regular insulin is used to treat diabetes.
• Regular insulin may also be used for purposes not listed in this medicine guide.
• Do not use this medication 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, speak your doctor if you have liver or kidney disease.
• Speak your doctor about all another medications you use, especially oral diabetes medications such as pioglitazone or rosiglitazone (which are sometimes contained in combinations with glimepiride or metformin). Taking determined oral diabetes medications while you are using insulin may magnify your risk of serious heart problems.
• FDA pregnancy category B. Insulin is not expected to be 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 passes into breast milk or if it could harm a nursing child. Speak your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby.
• Follow all directions on your prescription label. Do not use this medication in larger or less amounts or for longer than recommended.
• Your blood sugar will need to be checked often, and you may need another blood trials at your doctor's office.
• Regular insulin is injected under the skin. You will be shown how to use injections at house. 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.
• Regular insulin must look as clear as water. Do not use the medicine if has changed colors, looks cloudy, or has particles in it. Call your doctor for a new prescription.
• 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.
• 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.
• Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) can happen to everyone who has diabetes. Symptoms include headache, famine, sweating, pale skin, irritability, dizziness, feeling shaky, or trouble concentrating. Always hold a source of sugar with you in case you have low blood sugar. Sugar sources include fruit juice, heavy candy, crackers, raisins, and non-diet soda. Be certain your family and close friends know how to help you in an emergency.
• If you have severe hypoglycemia and can't ate or drink, use a glucagon injection. Your doctor can prescribe a glucagon abnormal injection kit and speak you how to use it.
• Also watch for signs of tall blood sugar (hyperglycemia) such as heighten thirst, heighten urination, famine, dry mouth, fruity breath odor, drowsiness, dry skin, blurred vision, and weight loss.
• Check your blood sugar carefully during times of stress, travel, diseases, surgery or medical abnormal, vigorous exercice, or if you drink alcohol or skip meals. These things can affect your glucose levels and your doze needs may also change. Do not change your medicine doze or schedule without your doctor's advice.
• If your doctor changes your brand, power, or type of insulin, your dosage needs may change. Ask your pharmacist if you have any questions about the new kind of insulin you receive at the pharmacy.
• Carry an ID card or wear a medical alert bracelet stating that you have diabetes, in case of abnormal. Any doctor, dentist, or abnormal medical care provider who treats you must know that you are diabetic.
• Regular insulin is only part of a treatment program that may also include diet, exercice, weight control, blood sugar testing, and particular medical care. Follow your doctor's instructions very closely.
• Storing unopened vials and cartridges: Hold in the carton and store in a refrigerator, protected from light.
• Storing after your first use: Hold the "in-use" vials or cartridges at cold room temperature. Throw away any insulin not used within 31 days.
• Do not freeze regular insulin, and throw away the medicine if it has become frozen.
• Throw away any insulin not used till the expiration date on the medication label.
• 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 dose.
• It is significant to hold regular insulin on arm at all times. Get your prescription refilled till you run out of medication completely.
• Search abnormal medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222. An insulin 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).
• Do not change the brand of insulin or syringe you are using without first talking to your doctor or pharmacist. Some brands of regular insulin and syringes are interchangeable, while others are not. Your doctor and/or pharmacist know which brands can be substituted for one another.
• Avoid drinking alcohol. Your blood sugar may become dangerously low if you drink alcohol while using regular insulin.
• 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.
• Call your doctor at once if you have shortness of breath, swelling in your hands or foots, or rapid weight gain (especially if you are taking an oral diabetes medication).
• Hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, is the most general side effect of insulin. Symptoms include headache, famine, dizziness, sweating, 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.
• 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;
· clonidine;
· reserpine; or
· a beta-blocker such as atenolol, carvedilol, labetalol, metoprolol, nadolol, nebivolol, propranolol, sotalol, 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. Another drugs may also interact with insulin, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal commodity. Speak every of your health care providers about all medicines you use now and any medication you start or stop using. Not all possible interactions are listed in this medicine guide.
• Your pharmacist can provide more information about regular insulin.
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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