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  Review Your Concepts in Diabetes
1. Describe insulin and what it does in the body?
2. What is diabetes and what are its types?
3. Who gets diabetes and what are its symptoms?
4. What are the tests available for diabetes?
5. What are the complications of diabetes?
6. What happens if there is poor blood sugar management?
7. What is diabetes during pregnancy and how to manage it?
8. What is hypo and hyperglycemia?
9. What is low blood sugar?
  Role of Medical Therapy in Diabetes
10. What are the medicines available for type I diabetes?
11. What are the medicines available for type II diabetes?
12. Can one take more than one diabetes pill at a time?
13. How to know if the medicines for diabetes are working?
  Insulin Therapy in Diabetes
14. Who needs insulin in type II diabetes?
15. How much insulin is needed in type II diabetes?
16. For how long is insulin required in type II diabetes?
17. What types of insulin are available?
18. Does insulin work the same for all times?
19. Where to Inject the Insulin?
20. How and when to inject insulin?
  Managing Your Insulin and Medications
21. How to store insulin?
22. Demonstrate technique for mixing and drawing up insulin.
23. Identify age appropriate injection sites.
24. Instruct injection technique.
  Fine tune Your Insulin Therapy
25. What problems arise through insulin injections?
26. Describe when and how to increase or decrease insulin doses?
27. Explain insulin adjustments using blood sugar records.
28. List two factors which effect blood sugars and the appropriate insulin adjustments.
29. What does “sliding” scales for insulin adjustments and who should use them mean?
30. Do the needs for insulin change with the seasons?
  Recent Advances in Insulin Therapy
31. Are there other devices to inject insulin?
32. What is insulin pump?
33. Are there any other ways to take insulin apart from injections?
34. What are the recent advances in diabetes medication?
35. What are insulin pills?
36. Will I have to always take pills/insulin?
37. What is skin patch?
38. What is oral spray?
39. What is inhaled insulin?
40. What is glucose monitoring?

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