Long-term injection of large amounts of insulin will cause 5 hazards

For most diabetic patients, they will choose to inject an appropriate amount of insulin every day to stabilize their blood sugar level.

Moreover, proper injection of insulin can also protect the remaining islet function and achieve the effect of reducing glycotoxicity and lipotoxicity.

However, if insulin is injected for a long time, it will cause certain harm to health. Below, I will give you a detailed introduction.

What are the harms of long-term insulin injection to the body?

1. Insulin edema appears

Many patients will experience very obvious body edema when using insulin therapy. This phenomenon is called insulin edema. Obvious edema will appear on the patient's entire face and lower limbs.

In severe cases, even the entire upper limbs of the patient may have edema. Especially in the initial period of insulin use, the patient has lost water and sodium.

The glucose content in the cells decreases rapidly, and water and sodium retention is prone to occur, which will cause the patient to develop body edema.

Second, it is easy to cause hypoglycemia

Many diabetic patients will experience very obvious hypoglycemia after insulin injection for a period of time.

Especially when there is an overdose of insulin, or if there is no food for a long time before and after the insulin injection, it is easy for the patient's blood sugar level to drop rapidly in a short period of time;

As a result, a series of uncomfortable symptoms such as rapid heartbeat, severe sweating, emotional anxiety, dizziness, dizziness, and body tremor occur. In severe cases, there may even be dangers such as coma, shock and brain death.

Third, there is refractive error

Refractive error refers to a phenomenon in which the external parallel light cannot be normally collected in the macula of the patient's retina.

Then it will lead to a series of vision problems in patients, such as severe myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism.

This is because when insulin is used for treatment, blood sugar will be in a state of rapid decline, which will affect the osmotic pressure in the lens.

The water in the lens overflows, resulting in a decrease in curvature. Especially in the time period just before the insulin injection, this phenomenon will be very obvious. But over time, this situation will improve or disappear quickly.

Fourth, lead to body obesity

Many diabetic patients will get fat easily after injecting insulin for a period of time. Even if the patient tries hard to adjust the diet or actively exercise, this kind of body fat phenomenon will become more and more obvious.

As insulin is an anabolic hormone, it can inhibit the decomposition of glycogen, fat and protein in the body, and promote the synthesis of fat glycogen and protein in the body, so that patients will experience weight gain.

Five, the appearance of insulin resistance

If insulin is injected for a long time, patients are prone to obvious drug resistance. Especially for people who have been injecting large amounts of insulin for a long time, there are insulin antibodies in the body, and these insulin antibodies will combine with insulin to cause the appearance of insulin resistance. Then after the patient is injected with insulin, blood sugar may even rise but not drop.

All in all, although insulin injection can stabilize blood sugar and treat diabetes. However, if a large amount of injection is used for a long time, it will cause the above 5 kinds of health hazards.

All in all, although insulin injection can stabilize blood sugar and treat diabetes. However, if a large amount of injection is used for a long time, it will cause the above 5 kinds of health hazards.

Especially for patients who have not controlled the amount of insulin injection, the probability of these uncomfortable symptoms will be very high.

Therefore, when the patient injects insulin, he must strictly follow the doctor's instructions to use it, and it is not allowed to add or reduce the medicine without authorization.

And while injecting insulin, we must pay attention to the conditioning of all aspects of life, and regular review. If there is a very obvious adverse reaction after insulin injection, you must go to a regular hospital quickly to protect your health to the greatest extent. Return to Sohu to see more