The dangers of long-term insulin injections

For diabetic patients, long-term insulin injection can control blood sugar and control the patient's condition, but it is also important to understand that long-term insulin injection will also have varying degrees of impact on the patient's health. For example, it can easily lead to insulin allergies and cause patients to become overweight. Long-term insulin injection may also cause hypoglycemia and skin malnutrition at the injection site, etc.

The dangers of long-term insulin injections

Hazard 1: Long-term insulin injection can easily cause insulin allergy

Insulin allergy is often caused by injecting unpurified insulin or animal insulin. Insulin allergy is divided into local allergy and systemic allergy. Local allergy manifests as maculopapular itching at the injection site and its surroundings. Systemic allergy may cause urticaria, allergic purpura, and even shock in some patients.

Hazard 2: Long-term insulin injection can cause abdominal obesity

Long-term use of insulin can easily cause weight gain, especially abdominal obesity, which is more common in patients with type 2 diabetes. If obesity occurs after injecting insulin, it is often a manifestation of hyperinsulinemia. Patients are advised to switch to purified insulin or take hypoglycemic drugs to reduce the amount of insulin used and reduce weight gain.

Hazard 3: Long-term insulin injection is prone to hypoglycemia

Hypoglycemia is often caused by diabetics injecting too much insulin and not eating on time, especially patients with liver and kidney dysfunction, which can easily cause hypoglycemia, and some patients may even go into a coma.

Hazard 4: Long-term insulin injection is prone to insulin edema

For diabetic patients, especially those whose diabetes condition has not been effectively controlled, they lose water, sodium and extracellular fluid in their bodies. Once the patient starts using insulin for treatment, he or she will experience water and sodium retention in the body within 4 to 6 days after blood sugar is controlled, causing edema in the limbs.

Hazard 5: Long-term insulin injection can cause subcutaneous fat malnutrition

Subcutaneous fat malnutrition is often caused by diabetics' long-term use of non-purified insulin or long-term injection of insulin in the same area. It can be seen that insulin also has certain risks. In addition to insulin injections, daily diet control is also a good means of auxiliary treatment to stabilize blood sugar.