The effects of diabetes mellitus include long-term damage, dysfunction and failure of various organs



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Short-term use:

  • Short-term use:

  • Acute illness, surgery, stress and emergencies

  • Pregnancy

  • Breast-feeding

  • Insulin may be used as initial therapy in type 2 diabetes

  • in marked hyperglycaemia

  • Severe metabolic decompensation (diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperosmolar nonketotic coma, lactic acidosis, severe hypertriglyceridaemia)

  • Long-term use:

  • If targets have not been reached after optimal dose of combination therapy or BIDS, consider change to multi-dose insulin therapy. When initiating this,insulin secretagogues should be stopped and insulin sensitisers e.g. Metformin or TZDs, can be continued.



The majority of patients will require more than one daily injection if good glycaemic control is to be achieved. However, a once-daily injection of an intermediate acting preparation may be effectively used in some patients.

  • The majority of patients will require more than one daily injection if good glycaemic control is to be achieved. However, a once-daily injection of an intermediate acting preparation may be effectively used in some patients.

  • Twice-daily mixtures of short- and intermediate-acting insulin is a commonly used regimen.

  • In some cases, a mixture of short- and intermediate-acting insulin may be given in the morning. Further doses of short-acting insulin are given before lunch and the evening meal and an evening dose of intermediate-acting insulin is given at bedtime.

  • Other regimens based on the same principles may be used.

  • A regimen of multiple injections of short-acting insulin before the main meals, with an appropriate dose of an intermediate-acting insulin given at bedtime, may be used, particularly when strict glycaemic control is mandatory.







Patients should be educated to practice self-care. This allows the patient to assume responsibility and control of his / her own diabetes management. Self-care should include:

  • Patients should be educated to practice self-care. This allows the patient to assume responsibility and control of his / her own diabetes management. Self-care should include:

    • Blood glucose monitoring
    • Body weight monitoring
    • Foot-care
    • Personal hygiene
    • Healthy lifestyle/diet or physical activity
    • Identify targets for control
    • Stopping smoking


National Diabetes Fact Sheet 2003, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

  • National Diabetes Fact Sheet 2003, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

  • World Health Organization. Definition, Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus and its Complications. Report of WHO. Department of Non-communicable Disease Surveillance. Geneva 1999

  • Academy of Medicine. Clinical Practice Guidelines. Management of type 2 diabetes mellitus. MOH/P/PAK/87.04(GU), 2004

  • NHS. Diabetes - insulin initiation - University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Working in partnership with PCTs across Leicestershire and Rutland, May 2008.



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