Are inhaled insluns really effective in the treatment of diabetes?
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Short term only and quick acting.\nUsually taken 15-30 mins before a meal.\nGiven in addition to long acting Insulin\n\nMy opinion, works but only replaces the short rapid insulins taken before a meal.
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There has been research going on for many many years in this field....best place to start with any info is your own doctor...you say your glucose isnt stabilized...if thats the case then you should be under a doctors care for it....all hospitals have counselors and information needed for diabetes and its treatment.Many of the teaching hospitals is where alot of the research is happening.
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From personal experience, as long as you manage your diabetes, NO!
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Herbal treatment of Diabetes is a myth. Because diabetes is incurable ,everyday someone comes with a new herb.Please ignore it.\nSyzyzium zambolanum is the seed whose powder is added to some tea. and it does not work.
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you know, inhalers never really helped me. You should keep one around in case of an emergency, but don't rely on it or you might end up having to use inhalers life long. My mom taught me when I was 5 years old how to use meditation to help free my airways; I would basically breathe in and out slowly, conciously, creating imagery in my head of my airways opening with every breath, releasing all the tension. It worked for me every time, and now I don't even have asthma anymore. But do keep an inhaler around for emergencies.
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Steroids are certainly known to raise blood sugar level in diabetics. However, the absorption of the steroids into the blood stream with a nasal spray is lower than that with oral steroids. So whether it will raise your Blood sugar level(BSL) will depend upon the dose and frequency of usage of the nasacort spray. It would be best to monitor your BSL with a home glucometer, if u have one, and see if it is indeed causing that- in which case the dose of your medicines/insulin may need to be adjusted. Else it would be best to ask your doc regarding the same.
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The most effective treatment for asthma is identifying triggers, such as pets or aspirin, and limiting or eliminating exposure to them. Desensitization is commonly attempted, but has not been shown to be effective. As is common with respiratory disease, smoking adversely affects asthmatics in several ways, including an increased severity of symptoms, a more rapid decline of lung function, and decreased response to preventive medications. Asthmatics who smoke typically require additional medications to help control their disease. Furthermore, exposure of both nonsmokers and smokers to secondhand smoke is detrimental, resulting in more severe asthma, more emergency room visits, and more asthma-related hospital admissions. Smoking cessation and avoidance of those who smoke is strongly encouraged in asthmatics.\n\nThe Buteyko Method, or Buteyko Breathing Technique (BBT) is an set of breathing exercises developed by the Ukrainian doctor Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko (Russian: Бутейко) that claim to alleviate various breathing disorders, such as asthma and emphysema.BBT advocates controlling the process of breathing in order to better regulate and even increase the quantity of carbon dioxide in the bloodstream. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buteyko_method
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First of all you must understan that there are 2 types of diabetes.\n   Type one: The body does not produce any insulin. The most hopeful cure is islet cell transplants. This is done by injecting islet cells from a cadaver into the pancreas of the individual with type 1 diabetes. The process needs cells from about 10 cadavers and now is about 70-80% effective for eliminating the need to use insulin.\n   Type 2 diabetes has a few causes. The body does not produce enough insulin or the body does not use insulin effectivley. There is some medication and insulin available to control this.\n   Either one of these can develop from a family history or by living a certain lifestyle. The best way to control, delay and or prevent this is from proper dietary habits. Portion control,eating healthy foods and exercise are still the best options.
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inhalation is breathing in, exhalation is breathing out
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yes,i eat baked chips all the time and i've had diabetes since I was 5 and i'm now 14.You just gotta watch your carbs and take insulyn.
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The Advair Diskus Inhaler is a very safe and effective medication and has very few side effects associated with its use.  The steriodal medication in the inhaler works locally in the lung with very little systemic activity. I have never heard of any death caused by Advair.   \n\nIf you have any concern or question of the risks or benifits of this medication in your individual situation, please talk to your doctor or pharmasist. They will know your spacific situation and any special risks or beifits to you from Advair.\n\nAnyone with COPD using Advair and discontinues its use, without professional medical advise could pose a great risk to themselves including the possiblity of death.
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I assume that you are speaking of a child with type 1 diabetes in which case the only treatment is insulin often in the form of an insulin pump.  Diabetes is not fun but beginning about 5 years ago really good insulins have become available.  We now have nearly ideal basal insulin (to control fasting glucose) and truly rapid acting insulins (to control after meal glucose).  There are a variety of pen systems and pumps available.  All of the machines to test for blood glucose are equally good.  Joslin in Boston has a nice website.  Type in Joslin Diabetes and click Search.
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The first answer is off base!  \n\n\nIf you have the Internet you have support!\n\nMy friends that have diabetes use the following website and they are successfully controlling their diabetes using their website:\n\nThis is the future for diabetes treatment...\n\nwww.nutrihand.com\n\nI will pray for you.\n\nNever Give Up!
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It depends upon the type of disease.... generally for cardiac diseases, the most frequent treatments involve medications for blood pressure....  if someone has previously suffered a heart attack, a bypass and grafting are often done...  a pacemaker may be installe dto regualte heart rate and to ease the stress put on the myocardial tissues...\n\nthere are a multitude of respitory (lung) diseases as well... most common of course being asthma... but for any ailment affecting the lungs a common treatment is an inhaled medication that opens up the small vessels within the brochials... albuterol and combivent are common meds for such... a nebulizer may be used instead of an inhaler which acts in much the same fasion but adds a bit of moisture...\n\nto best answer you question however i would suggest that you refine your question to specific cardiovascular diseases
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Strange as this may sound, it WORKS!!! My grandmother has been asthmatic all her life, with frequent visits to the emergency et all. These people who give you this medicine in the mouth of a small live fish live in hyderabad in india and have been doing this for many generations. One of the forefathers is said to have gotten this medicine from a sage and the family has been preparing it ever since.  You are supposed to go to hyderabad once every year (at a particular time of the year) for 3 years in a row. I went with my grandmother one year, and you won't beleive this, I saw people of all races , from all over the world waiting in long, long lines, (it happens only for 3 days every year) There were people from america, europe, everywhere.... i had never seen such a crowd before. Anyway, coming to the point, when your turn comes, they push in a tiny LIVE fish with a yellow ball of medicine in it's mouth right down your throat. You close your eyes and just swallow it, and they tell you what foods to avoid and things like that till you come back and see them the next year. My gran went for 3 years and she is completely asthma free now and has never been to the hospital even once. They do it for free, they say they want to help people and do not charge you a penny. They are 5 brothers now in this generation and the trearment takes place in 5 different locations in hyderabad, once every year. People in india beleive that only alternative medicine can cure a disease, all allopathic medicines just have a temporary effect.
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BreathRight works for me.  I tried paper clips, straws, nothing worked. Then it dawned on me...outside of the nose no inside. \n\nPeople try this and ask me, "Do you realize how well this works?"\n\nI say, "Of course I do, I invented them"
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There are, at this writing, NO cures for diabetes mellitus (either Type 1 or Type 2, which are quite different diseases with shared symptoms). Whether herbal or otherwise. We now understand diabetes well enough to understand what it is, and what a cure would behave. And nothing comes close so far. \n\nThere is some prospect of cures for both, however. In the case of uncomplicated Type 1, replacement of the beta cells which have been lost would be a cure. The problem is that  beta cells from anyone else are attacked by the immune system and destroyed. There are various schemes for evading this in the research labs, and some of them are showing promise. A clinically successful approach is (probably) going to be found relatively soon, and if so, Type 1 will be curable. The 'graft rejection' immune system problem could be evaded if beta cells could be developed from the body's own cells. This will likely be possible if we could understand stem cells well enough, and this possibility is one of the strongest promises of that research. The political situation surrounding stem cell research (especially in the US) merely complicates the research problem, but doesn't change the underlying possibilities and promise of the science.\n\nType 2 is more difficult as the characteristic problem is the resistence of cells throughout the body to the action of insulin in getting body cells to absorb glucose from the blood. However, we are close to understanding the underlying cellular mechanism of insulin action (and perhaps to the cause of its failure) and this may lead to a theraputic advance good enough to be called a cure.\n\n\n=======\n\nOne of the most serious problems in regard to diabetes is the frequency and variety of the quackery which surrounds it. It is a serious disease (both of the most common Types) and is a real nuisance to treat in all Type 1 cases (insulin is required) and many Type 2 cases (unending scheming about diet, exercise, and medication of various types). With no  cure from standard medicine, there seems to be an open invitation to sharp operators. The variety of 'ancient cures' from somewhere else in the world, 'non-toxic treatments', and so on is substantial. Absolutely none of these 'cures' or 'supports' has been shown to actually work; if any of them did, it will be adopted quite promptly by regular medicine since there are no effective treatments for diabetes which aren't a nuisance for both patient and doctor. Patients would demand it with no doubt at all, as such a breakthrough would certainly be first page news around the world. Diabetes and insulin research have won at least 4 Nobel Prizes so far, and there's little reason to think there wouldn't be another for such a breakthrough. Quite an incentive for researchers, actually.