Because the body no longer makes insulin, insulin injections play a big role in diabetes care plan. How much insulin that need to take depends on the blood glucose level, or prediction of the level will be after a meal. Naturally, food also plays an important role in the diabetes management plan, because it contributes glucose to the blood. Usually, physical activity can lower the blood glucose level, decreasing the dose of insulin.
Most people with type 1 diabetes take insulin by injecting it with a needle and syringe or an insulin pen. The goal is to mimic normal insulin release as closely as possible. People without diabetes have a low level of insulin available in the blood most of the time. This is a background, or basal, level of insulin. After meals, a bolus of insulin is released, just enough to clear the glucose in the meal from the blood.
The type of insulin therapy should relate directly to the health and the lifestyle choices. Your chosen therapy may be as simple as keeping your blood glucose levels from shooting too high after meals or falling too low between meals. Or the therapy may be more challenging: trying to keep after-meal blood glucose levels as close as possible to those of someone without diabetes. Of course, healthy eating and regular exercise are a part of everyone’s healthy living plan.
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