Diabetes
Diabetes is a disease in which your blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels are too high. Glucose comes from the foods you eat. Insulin is a hormone that helps the glucose get into your cells to give them energy. With type 1 diabetes, your body does not make insulin. With type 2 diabetes, the more common type, your body does not make or use insulin well. Without enough insulin, the glucose stays in your blood. You can also have prediabetes. This means that your blood sugar is higher than normal but not high enough to be called diabetes. Having prediabetes puts you at a higher risk of getting type 2 diabetes.
Over time, having too much glucose in your blood can cause serious problems. It can damage your eyes, kidneys, and nerves. Diabetes can also cause heart disease, stroke and even the need to remove a limb. Pregnant women can also get diabetes, called gestational diabetes.
Blood tests can show if you have diabetes. One type of test, the A1C, can also check on how you are managing your diabetes. Exercise, weight control and sticking to your meal plan can help control your diabetes. You should also monitor your blood glucose level and take medicine if prescribed.
NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Diabetes FDA Approved Drugs
- Adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus who are already treated with pioglitazone and metformin or who have inadequate glycemic control on pioglitazone or metformin alone.
- Adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes who are already treated with a pioglitazone and metformin.
- To reduce gastrointestinal side effects administer with a meal; as starting dose administer once daily with evening meal.
- Combination treatment with a glitazone for improvement of glycemic control in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients.
- Improvement in glycemic control in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients by use of a pen injector.
- Administration of a composition comprising insulin complexed with a diketopiperazine..
- Administration of a composition comprising insulin complexed with microparticles of a diketopiperazine..
- Administration of fdkp microparticles comprising insulin..
- Method of aerosolizing/deagglomerating an insulin dry powder for use in treating diabetes mellitus via oral inhalation using an inhaler with a cartridge containing the insulin dry powder..
- Method of controlling glycemia in diabetics by administering an initial dose of insulin-fdkp with a meal; determining blood glucose level 1-2 hrs after and administering a supplemental dose of insulin-fdkp if postprandial glucose level is >140 mg/dl.
- Method of delivering to a patient with diabetes mellitus in a single inhalation, greater than 75% of a dry powder dose comprising insulin and fumaryl diketopiperazine using a high resistance to flow dry powder inhaler..
- Pulmonary administration of a compisition comprising insulin bound to a diketopiperazine..
- Pulmonary administration of a composition comprising insulin bound to a complexing agent..
- Pulmonary administration of an insulin composition comprising fdkp at the beginning of a meal to a patient also being treated with a long-acting insulin..
- Treatment of a patient having diabetes mellitus with a prandial rapid acting insulin..
- Treatment of diabetes mellitus with an inhaled insulin to improve glycemic control using a dry powder inhalation system comprising an inhaler, a cartridge and a dry powder medicament comprising insulin in a single inhalation.
- Treatment of patient having diabetes mellitus via oral inhalation of fdkp microparticles comprising insulin.
- Use of an inhaler to administer dry powder medicament.
- Improvement in glycemic control in diabetes mellitus patients by use of a pen injector with a threaded drive sleeve.
- Method of treating a patient suffering from diabetes mellitus.
- Improvement in glycemic control in diabetes mellitus patients by use of a pen injector with a threaded drive sleeve.
- Method of treating a patient suffering from diabetes mellitus.
- Method of treatment of type ii diabetes.
- As an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Lowering plasma glucagon in a subject in need thereof, including one with type 2 diabetes, by administering an exendin or analog, such as exendin-4.
- Method for treating type 2 diabetes using a sustained-release composition containing exenatide.
- Reducing food intake in a subject with type 2 diabetes by administering an exendin, such as exendin-4.
- Reducing gastric motility or delaying gastric emptying by administering an exendin, such as exendin-4.
- Reductions in body weight are observed with exenatide.
- Treating type 2 diabetes mellitus with exenatide by stimulating insulin release.
- Treatment of type 2 diabetes.
- As an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Lowering plasma glucagon in a subject in need thereof, including one with type 2 diabetes, by administering an exendin or analog, such as exendin-4.
- Method for treating type 2 diabetes using a sustained-release composition containing exenatide.
- Reducing food intake in a subject with type 2 diabetes by administering an exendin, such as exendin-4.
- Reducing gastric motility or delaying gastric emptying by administering an exendin, such as exendin-4.
- Reductions in body weight are observed with exenatide.
- Treating type 2 diabetes mellitus with exenatide by stimulating insulin release.
- Treatment of type 2 diabetes.
- Lowering plasma glucagon in a subject in need thereof, including one with type 2 diabetes, by administering an exendin or analog, such as exendin-4.
- Reducing food intake in a subject with type 2 diabetes by administering an exendin, such as exendin-4.
- Reducing gastric motility or delaying gastric emptying by administering an exendin, such as exendin-4.
- Stimulating insulin release by administering exenatide.
- Treating type 2 diabetes mellitus with exenatide by stimulating insulin release.
- Use of exenatide may result in reduction in appetite..
- Use of exenatide may result in reduction in body weight.
- Administration once daily within two hours after waking in the morning for improvement of glycemic control in a type 2 diabetes patient.
- Improvement of glycemic control in individuals with type 2 diabetes.
- Improvements of glycemic control in individuals with type 2 diabetes who have one or more specified cardiovascular risk factors.
- Treatment of type 2 diabetes by administering bromocriptine mesylate and a first-phase insulin secretagogue wherein the combined therapeutic effect is greater than the additive effect of administering each agent alone.
- As an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes.
- Treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus in a patient, wherein glycemic control (hba1c < 7.0%) is not achievable using one or more of insulin, metformin, pioglitazone, or rosiglitazone.
- Treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Method of treating patient with type 2 diabetes by once daily administration.
- Treatment of type 2 diabetes.
- Indication of type ii diabetes.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering linagliptin in combination with empagliflozin (with or without insulin or a sulfonylurea).
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering linagliptin in combination with empagliflozin (with or without metformin).
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering linagliptin in combination with empagliflozin and metformin.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering linagliptin in combination with empagliflozin.
- Treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Improvement of glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor in combination with insulin.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor in combination with metformin and a ppar-gamma agonist.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidase-iv inhibitor in combination with metformin.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidase-iv inhibitor.
- Improvement of glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients for whom treatment with both sitagliptin and metformin hcl extended release is appropriate.
- Improvement of glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus in combination with metformin and/or a ppar-gamma agonist and/or sulfonylurea and/or insulin.
- Improvement of glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus in combination with metformin..
- Improvement of glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor in combination with insulin.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor in combination with metformin and a ppar-gamma agonist.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidase-iv inhibitor in combination with a ppar-gamma agonist.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidase-iv inhibitor in combination with metformin and/or a sulfonylurea.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidase-iv inhibitor.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidaste-iv inhibitor.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering linagliptin in combination with empagliflozin.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor in combination with metformin.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidase-iv inhibitor in combination with metformin and/or a sulfonylurea.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidase-iv inhibitor.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering linagliptin in combination with metformin.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes in patients who have not been previously treated with an antihyperglycemic agent by administering linagliptin in combination with metformin.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes in patients with insufficient glycemic control despite therapy with one or more conventional antihyperglycemic agents by administering linagliptin in combination with metformin.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidase-iv inhibitor in combination with metformin and, optionally, a sulfonylurea.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidase-iv inhibitor in combination with metformin.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidase-iv inhibitor.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering linagliptin in combination with metformin.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes.
- Method of treating diabetes comprising administering a compound such as alogliptin.
- Method of treating diabetes comprising administering alogliptin.
- Methods of lowering elevated post prandial blood glucose levels comprising administering a dipeptidyl peptidase inhibitor.
- Methods of modifying glucose metabolism and treating diabetes comprising administering a dipeptidyl peptidase inhibitor and one or more other therapeutic agents such as metformin.
- Methods of reducing the side effects of active components administered to a diabetic patient comprising administering an insulin sensitivity enhancer such as pioglitazone in combination with an insulin secretion enhancer.
- Methods of treating diabetes comprising administering a dipeptidyl peptidase inhibitor and metformin.
- Adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus when treatment with both saxagliptin and metformin is appropriate.
- Method for treating type ii diabetes mellitus by administering saxagliptin in combination with metformin.
- Improvement in glycemic control in diabetes mellitus patients by use of a pen injector with a threaded drive sleeve.
- Improvement in glycemic control in diabetes mellitus patients by use of a pen injector with a threaded drive sleeve.
- Levemir is a long-acting basal insulin analog that is indicated in the treatment of patients with diabetes mellitus.
- Levemir is a long-acting basal insulin analog that is indicated in the treatment of patients with diabetes mellitus.
- Method of treating diabetes comprising administering a compound such as alogliptin.
- Method of treating diabetes comprising administering alogliptin.
- Methods of lowering elevated post prandial blood glucose levels comprising administering a dipeptidyl peptidase inhibitor.
- Methods of modifying glucose metabolism and treating diabetes comprising administering a dipeptidyl peptidase inhibitor and one or more other therapeutic agents such as metformin.
- Methods of reducing the side effects of active components administered to a diabetic patient comprising administering an insulin sensitivity enhancer such as pioglitazone in combination with an insulin secretion enhancer.
- Methods of treating diabetes comprising administering a dipeptidyl peptidase inhibitor and metformin.
- Method for treating type ii diabetes by administering saxagliptin.
- Method for treating type ii diabetes mellitus by administering saxagliptin alone or in combination with insulin, metformin, a thiazolidinedione, glyburide or metformin plus a sulfonylurea.
- Method of treating diabetes comprising administering a compound such as alogliptin.
- Method of treating diabetes comprising administering alogliptin.
- Methods of lowering elevated post prandial blood glucose levels comprising administering a dipeptidyl peptidase inhibitor.
- Methods of modifying glucose metabolism and treating diabetes comprising administering a dipeptidyl peptidase inhibitor and one or more other therapeutic agents such as metformin.
- Methods of reducing the side effects of active components administered to a diabetic patient comprising administering an insulin sensitivity enhancer such as pioglitazone in combination with an insulin secretion enhancer.
- Methods of treating diabetes comprising administering an insulin sensitivity enhancer such as pioglitazone in combination with an insulin secretion enhancer.
- Methods of treating diabetes comprising administering a dipeptidyl peptidase inhibitor and metformin.
- Method for treating type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2dm) in patients who are already treated with dapagliflozin and saxagliptin.
- Method for treating type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2dm) in patients who have inadequate control with dapagliflozin.
- Improvement in glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus inadequately controlled by basal insulin or lixisenatide by use of a pen injector with a threaded drive sleeve.
- Use as a blood glucose-lowering agent.
- Use for treatment of diabetes, particularly type 2 diabetes.
- Treatment of diabetes with an amylin agonist, including with insulin.
- Treatment of diabetes with an amylin agonist.
- Use of an amylin agonist to reduce gastric motility and treat post prandial hypergylcemia.
- Improvement in glycemic control in diabetes mellitus patients by use of a pen injector with a threaded drive sleeve.
- Improvement in glycemic control in diabetes mellitus patients.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor in combination with pioglitazone.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor in combination with sulfonlyurea.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidase-iv inhibitor in combination with metformin and/or a sulfonylurea.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering a dipeptidyl peptidaste-iv inhibitor.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering linagliptin in combination with insulin (with or without metformin and/or pioglitazone).
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering linagliptin in combination with metformin.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus by administering linagliptin.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients with severe chronic renal impairment and for whom metformin therapy is inappropriate by administering linagliptin.
- Method of treating type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients with severe chronic renal impairment and who are ineligible for metformin therapy by administering linagliptin.
- Treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- A method for improving glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus in a patient, wherein glycemic control (hba1c < 7.0%) is not achievable using one or more of insulin, metformin, pioglitazone, or rosiglitazone.
- Treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Felter's Materia Medica on Diabetes
   The fungus Amanita muscaria, Persoon; (Agaricus muscarius, Linné.) (Nat. Ord. Fungi.) An extremely poisonous fungus found in the pine forests of... / ... and profuse sweating in the daytime; and to restrain the excess of urine in polyuria, or so-called diabetes insipidus. Scudder suggested a tincture of the fresh fungus for involuntary twitching of ... / ...by Eclectic practitioners. Muscarine is used in atropine and belladonna poisoning, sometimes being employed in place of eserine (physostigmine). 1
   The unripe seed of the Avena sativa, Linné, and the farina derived from the ripened seed (Nat. Ord. Graminaceae). Probably indigenous to Sicily... / ...t should be about the consistence of milk. Oatmeal gruel, when not otherwise contraindicated, as in diabetes mellitus or amylaceous indigestion, is an excellent and easily digested food in convalescen... / ...off the habit has not been sustained. In our own experience we have utterly failed to accomplish any good with it in any form of drug habit. 1
   ...ome effect upon the functions of the pancreas, it is probably of little value in that worst form of diabetes mellitus in which the cells of Langerhans are destroyed. It should be given renewed study i......sity and when sugar intolerance alone, and not starch disturbances, create what so often passes for diabetes. These are rather prediabetic conditions, if tending in that direction at all, but even if ...1
   The whole plant of Erigeron canadense, Linné (Nat. Ord. Compositae). A common and troublesome weed through the northern and central parts of the... / ...ive hemorrhage is present. It has restrained the pathologic flow of urine in polyuria, or so-called diabetes insipidus. The oil of erigeron is a good internal hemostatic. It sometimes checks quite sev... / ...Given in syrup it is useful as a cough medicine when there is bloody expectoration.1
   ...ion; albuminuria with the above characteristic circulatory disturbances; polyuria and some cases of diabetes with rapid heart action. Therapy.Lycopus is sedative, subastringent, and tonic. No other ......exaggerated force of the heart. It has been ill-advised, and is largely over-rated, for the cure of diabetes and the relief of chronic nephritis. The most it can do in these conditions is to allay unp...1
   ...ht it to have a restraining effect both upon the hypersecretion of urine and the output of sugar in diabetes. Apparently it is only in exceptional cases that it displays this power, and too much relia......h reliance should not be placed upon it in severe cases. As an aid to control some of the phases of diabetes, as excessive urination, it should be used in conjunction with other approved methods. Whil...1
Physician's Materia Medica on Diabetes
   Astringent but not locally hemostatic, Prescribed in diarrheas, in atonic albuminuria, in hematuria, colliquative sweats, diabetes insipidus (combined with opium) and in internal hemorrhages. Ap plied locally in ointments in hemorrhoids and for unhealthy ulcers. Dose, 0.2 to 1.0 Grm. (3 to 15 grs.)2
   A dense fluid remarkable for its strong aflinity for moisture. It is hence of great use as a local depletant, especially to mucous membranes. It is thus applied to the cervix uteri to relieve conges tion and on a similar principle is used in the form of suppositories to cause the bowels to move. In diabetes mellitus, it is sometimes used in place of sugar as a sweetening agent in articles of food.2
   The seeds of EUGENIA JAMBOLANA, Lam. Astringent, antizymotic; a remedy of great value in some forms of diabetes mellitus, greatly diminishing the excretion of sugar.2
   A derivative of NITRO-PHENOL. Analgesic. antipyretic. Prescribed for relief of pain in acute rheumatism, sciatica, gastralgia, migraine, dysmenorrhea, neuralgia. etc.; to reduce temperature and promote diaphoresis in fevers, and for a specific influence in diabetes. Dose, 0.12 to 0.60 Grm. (2 to 10 grs.).2
   Antispasmodic, nervine. Prescribed in neuralgia, nervous head ache, hysteria, whooping cough and diabetes insipidus. Dose, 0.06 to 0.12 Grm. (1 to 2 grs.).2
Physician's Therapeutics Memoranda on Diabetes
   If dependent on vaso-motor relaxation, ergot, extract suprarenal glands; astringents, particularly gallic acid and rhus aromatica. If due to nervous irritability, belladonna, nervines, bromides. Tonics are generally indicated, particularly iron and strychnine.2
   Exclude sugar and starch as far as possible from the diet, but do not starve the patient. The remedies most likely to be useful are; Solution Gold and Arsenic Bromide, Fl. Ext. J ambul seed, morphine o_r codeine (particularly Tablets of Codeine without sugar); in gouty cases, colchicine, iodides, lithium salts, and arsenic; in rheumatic cases, salicylic acid, salicylates, potassium iodide. Other remedies are methylene blue (2 to 5 grs. three times a day), uranium nitrate (2 grs. increased gradua...2
References
2) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.