Chapter 50: Antidiabetics Flashcards
What does diabetes mellitus mean?
Chronic disease results from deficient glucose metabolism
What are the 3 major symptoms of diabetes mellitus?
Polyuria
Polydispisa
Polyphagia
Too much pee
Too much thrist
Too hungry
What does insulin resistance mean?
Insulin receptors unresponsive or deficient in numbers
There are 4 types of diabetes what are they?
Type 1
Type 2
Secondary
Gestational
What is type 1 diabetes mellitus?
Insulin dependent DM
Normally known as childhood diabetes
Usually will need insulin for life because they simply are born without it
What is type 2 diabetes ?
Insulin resistance
Decrease insulin production!
Mainly known as 25+
Non insulin dependent DM
So you kinda bring it upon yourself
What is secondary diabetes mellitus?
Due to medications
Glucocorticoids
Thiazide
Diuretics
Epinephrine
What is gestational diabetes mellitus?
Due to hormonal changes
If you have gestational diabetes you have an increase what?
Increase risk for diabetes type 2
Why do you get those 3 ps for diabetes?
Because you have too much sugar in your blood instead of in your cells
So sugar dehydrates you when it’s in your blood stream, so drink lots of water ( thristy )
And you pee it out so much
Because of how much water you end up drinking
And your cells are hungry for the sugar so that sends a signal to brain to “eat” more
Type 1 diabetes comes on what?
Suddenly
Usually just out the blue
( most people are diagnosed with going to ER with diabetic ketoacidosis )
( a lot of weight loss typically )
When you are diagnose with pre diabetes, can you reverse it?
Yes
can you reverse diabetes type 2 and how?
Yes
Typically with exercise and good diet
What is a really big factor of diabetes type 2?
It’s a progressive type of diabetes in which insulin can slowly stop being produced
( over time you lose ability to produce insulin, so 80% of your pancreas doesn’t even work when you get diagnosed with diabetes type 2 sadly )
Why do patients with diabetes type 2 feel like failures ?
We have to remember that diabetes type 2 is progressive and the diagnose is usually really late, with already 80% of their pancreas already not producing insulin.
Patients can follow good exercise and diet and still again, it’s progressive that it just gets worse
So oral medication and insulin is usually increased and needed
Notes
With type 2 diabetes, you are not making enough insulin
And your body is becoming resistance to the insulin that you make
Its important to note that the insulin isn’t going to be used in the same way was before
Usually late diagnoses
Insulin is released from what?
Why are they secreted?
Beta cells of islets of langerhans in pancreas
In response to increase in blood glucose
What are the 2 functions of insulin?
Promotes uptake of glucoses, amino acids and fatty acids
Coverts glucose to glycogen in liver and muscle for future needs
What is normal blood glucose range?
70-99
What is hemoglobin A1C?
Like why do we do it and what does it tell us?
A test where it tells us our blood glucose
What is less than 5% in hemoglobin A1C tell us?
No diabetes
What is pre diabetes hemoglobin A1c?
5.7-6.4
What is hemoglobin A1C diabetes mellitus?
6.5 or more
Notes
Hemoglobin A1C
So like 6.5 of your sugar is attached to your blood cell
( so this means you have Diabetes )
Hemoglobin A1C looks at the average blood sugar for the past what?
3 months
For patients who have diabetes type 2 what is usually the goal for the their A1C levels?
Less than 7
Insulin is key that takes your ___ and __ from your bloodstream into your cells
So if you don’t have insulin what happens?
Glucose and potassium
The glucoses go out into the blood stream ( outside the cells )
What’s one thing we do to help patients with hyperkalemia and why?
Give people IV insulin & IV dextrose 5-10
Insulin will move that Potassium from their blood stream into your cells to get rid of that hyperkalemia
For someone who is getting a lot of insulin what do we have to worry about?
Hypokalemia
Cause all of that potassium will be moving into the cells
What are the 2 human insulin?
Usually this has low allergies and insulin resistance
Humilin R
Novolin N
What are 2 human insulin analogs modified onset and duration?
Insulin lispro
Insulin aspart
What are the 3 concentrations of insulin?
100 units / ML
500 units /ML rarely used
Both come in 10ML vials
What are the 5 insulin types we are going to talk about?
Rapid acting
Short acting
Intermediate acting
Long acting
Combinations
What are the 3 rapid acting insulin?
Lispro (humalog)
Aspart (novolog)
Glulisine (apidra )
Rapid acting insulin type
What is the onset?
What is the peak?
What is the duration?
10-30mins
30-90mind
1.5-5hours
What are the 2 short acting insulin?
Regular ( humulin R and novolin R)
Short acting insulin type
What is the onset? (2)
What is the peak?(2)
What is the duration?(2)
Sub Q-30mins
IV 15min
Subq 1.5-3.5hours
iv 15-30mins
Subq 4-12hours
IV 2-6 hours
What is the intermediate acting insulin ? (2)
NPH
( humulin N and novolin N )
Intermediate acting insulin type
What is the onset?
What is the peak?
What is the duration?
1.5H
4-12H
14-24H
What are your 3 long acting insulin?
Glargine (Lantus)
Detemir (Levemir)
Degludec (Tresiba)
Long acting insulin type
What is onset?
What is peak? (3)
What is duration?(2)
1-2H
Glargine-none
Determir (6-8H)
Degludec (12H)
Glargine & determir (24H)
Degludec (42H)
What is inhaled insulin ?
Afrezza
Notes
Old insulin used to come from pigs and cows
A lot of people had allergic reactions to
Now we manipulate insulin so it can last us longer for us
Usually last all morning until lunch time
All insulin come in what?
ML of what?
Concentration is what?
Vials
10ML
100units
Why would we have 500units concentrations?
Usually ICU
When patients blood sugar is like 1500 or whatever
Make sure to always read the labels!!!!