Inhailable insulin

[Dr.RobertBanner]

Yes it's true, inhailable (sp?) insulin is on it's way (I'm sure some of ya'll knew). It's about a year or two from being approved and put on the market. I talked to a friend of my mom's who was piloting it or whatever. Very cool. The device that administers it is about the size of a flashlight. You slide it open to open a chamber, insert the tiny little blister pack of powdered slin (1mg which equals 3IU), pump it once to fill the chamber with air and the slin, then open it up, inhale deeply and your done. It gets absorbed in the cappilaries of you lungs apparently. It's fast acting like Humalog and gives nice quick even spikes, it's not unpredictalbe at all she said. She likes it a lot and being Type 1 and diabetic counceler and educator, she knows what shes talking about. This would be great for people who using lots or slin and better and safer than taking 10-15 IU of long acting slin in the morn.

BTW she also said that while she uses the 1 IU to 10gm carb ratio in the morn, she uses a 2 IU to 15gm carb ratio throughout the rest of the day, but of course she doesn't make any insulin naturally either. Just thought that was interesting.

 

[Dr.RobertBanner]

wow, no one else thinks thats cool? I thought it was awsome.

 

[71olds442]

seems like there would still be too much of a margin of error.. ill inject over that any day

 

[Dr.RobertBanner]

seems like there would still be too much of a margin of error.. ill inject over that any day

How so? I doubt it would get approved if there were a big margin for error, b/c think about it Diabetics lives depend on it, you can't have it being sloppy.

You might be right though WL, but I bet once online supply places start carrying it, we could get it pretty easy.

 

[macho21]

Sounds cool! I also wonder about availability in the future

 

[marx]

It is great news, especially being diabetic myself. The problem is the doc's have been saying 1-2years away for at least 5 years now. It's hard to get excited over stuff like this until it's actually hit the shelf...

 

[KappaRaider]

a friend of mine who makes generics, has been working on it for about a year. He will have it in a few months he said. It will be out before you know it. Companies will launch this very soon.