Diabetes insulin is not very serious

Insulin therapy does not necessarily mean that diabetes is very serious. For example, patients with type 1 diabetes, he is absolutely deficient in islet function, unable to secrete insulin, so patients with type 1 diabetes can only rely on external insulin to lower blood sugar. Therefore, once diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, patients must use insulin therapy for life. Type 2 diabetes patients, if in a short period of time blood sugar is very high, high glucose toxicity is particularly serious, in this case can also temporarily use insulin for a period of time to reduce high glucose toxicity. After high glucose toxicity is lifted, insulin can be gradually reduced or discontinued, and oral hypoglycemic drugs can be switched back. There are also some patients with type 2 diabetes, such as long-term diabetic patients, whose islet function gradually declines, and blood sugar still fails to reach the standard after all oral drugs are combined. In this case, insulin is needed, suggesting that their islet function has been relatively exhausted.