Insulin Tutorial 1-4

In conventional therapy I use injections of long-acting insulin.

In conventional therapy I adjust my food intake to fit in with the effects of the long-acting insulin.

In conventional therapy I use little or no regular insulin.

In conventional therapy I have to take 6 or 7 calculated or estimated meals.

In conventional therapy I have to inject insulin twice a day.

There are various modes of conventional therapy which we will discuss in detail later on.



When treating a patient with newly discovered diabetes, doctors nearly always start with conventional therapy, because insulin requirements during the remission phase ('Honeymoon period') are low and the patient can manage very well with two injections a day or even only one.

In intensive conventional therapy I use injections of regular insulin almost exclusively.

In intensive coventional therapy I adjust the effect of regular insulin to fit in with my food intake.

In intensive conventional therapy I use little or no long-acting insulin.

In intensive conventional therapy I can take three main meals a day.

In intensive conventional therapy I have to give four insulin injections a day.

Intensive conventional therapy imitates the natural physiological conditions existing in the body. The injections of regular insulin given before the three main meals are called booster rate injections and the injections of long-acting insulin are called basal rate injections.

Intensive conventional therapy is often employed when the diabetes has been in existence for a while, when insulin requirements are high and when you have already learnt a fair amount about your diabetes.

First of all let's study conventional insulin therapy.