The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
Diabetes is a dangerous disease and treating it often involves injections to add insulin to your body so it can make use of the food you eat every day. Learning to give injections is part of the process and insulin syringes are made to make the injections as painless as possible and easy to do for anyone. Learning to give yourself injections is part of the diabetes education process and keeping up with them every day will soon be second nature. Some people learn quicker than others, but all can learn to do this.
Insulin syringes are available in different volumes and depending on what your doctor prescribes for a dose a specific volume syringe should available to make filling and getting the correct dose easy. They come in 1cc, ½ cc and 3/10 cc and are normally calibrated for U 100 insulin. U100 insulin is standard human strength insulin and because they are other insulin strengths on the market it is important to make sure you get syringes to match the strength of insulin you are using.
U 40 insulin is a strength of insulin normally used for pets and there are U 40 insulin syringes available for purchase. As this insulin is only 40% the strength of U100 insulin the syringes are calibrated differently and it will be confusing to figure out how full to get the syringe if the syringe doesn’t match the insulin.
Injections and syringes have been used for a long time to regulate blood sugar and keep diabetes under control. Many people have learned to use insulin syringes to give themselves injections and even buy the syringes online instead of getting them through their doctor. They can be purchased at most pharmacies so it is possible to also control some of the expense of treating this disease by clever shopping and searching online.
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