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ACCU-CHEK® Softclix Lancing Device

OneTouch® Delica Lancing Device

Autolet Impression® Lancing Device

A1CNow SelfCheck At Home A1C System by Bayer

A1CNow® SELFCHECK is a simple way to check on your A1C level at home, between doctor visits. Along with your regular doctor visits and routine blood glucose monitoring, the A1CNow® SELFCHECK lets you know where your glucose stands, so you can get to where you need to be easier.

Hypoglycemia Sleep Alarm by Giant Biosensor

Detects symptoms of hypoglycemia also known as "low blood glucose". While those with insulin dependent diabetes are sleeping they often experience symptoms that include perspiration and a drop in skin temperature during times of nocturnal hypoglycemia

Tubeguard by Unomedical

Instead of rolling up your insulin tubing and putting it in a pocket or wedging it in the waist of your pants, you can now roll it up with tubeguard. Compact and practical, tubeguard weighs next to nothing and is only 4.8 cm (1,9") wide and 1 cm (0,4") deep.

Insuflon Indwelling Catheters by Unomedical

Insuflon Catheters are a great addition to any diabetic's day bag.

Insuflon™ is a unique catheter system used for multiple daily injection therapy for insulin dependent people with diabetes.

Can Diabetes be Prevented?

Prevention can be divided into two categories:

Primary prevention - refers to treatments before the disease starts. Secondary prevention - refers to treatments after the disease is triggered but before symptoms begin.

What is Insulin?

Insulin is an animal hormone with extensive effects on both metabolism and several other body systems (eg, vascular compliance). When present, it causes most of the body's cells to take up glucose from the blood (including liver, muscle, and fat tissue cells), storing it as glycogen in the liver and muscle, and stops use of fat as an energy source. When insulin is absent (or low), glucose is not taken up by most body cells absorbed and the body begins to use fat as an energy source. As its level is a central metabolic control mechanism, its status is also used as a signal to other body systems (such as amino acid uptake by body cells). Generally, it has several other anabolic effects throughout the body. When control of insulin levels fails, diabetes mellitus results.

Insulin is used medically to treat some forms of diabetes mellitus. Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus depend on external insulin (most commonly injected subcutaneously) for their survival because of the absence of the hormone. Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus have insulin resistance, relatively low insulin production, or both; some patients with type 2 diabetes may eventually require insulin when other medications become insufficient in controlling blood glucose levels.

Insulin is a peptide hormone composed of 51 amino acid residues and has a molecular weight of 5808 Da. It is produced in the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. The name comes from the Latin insula for "island".

Insulin's structure varies slightly between species of animal. Insulin from animal sources differs somewhat in 'strength' (i.e., in carbohydrate metabolism) in humans because of those variations. Porcine (pig) insulin is especially close to the human version.