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Insulin spray coud be a better solution
With the ORA-LYN insulin spray, Dr. Gerald Bernstein from Generex Biotechnology,
Toronto, told Reuters Health, "human regular insulin (used for many years)
is delivered with an asthma-like device (common and familiar to patients
and doctors)…by a metered spray."
The conclusion of a new study conducted with healthy volunteers shows that
an investigational oral insulin spray formula "is mainly absorbed
and effective in the first 2 hours after its administration, which is
the crucial time period" for control of blood sugar after a meal. The
possibility of using "insulin just a few minutes before meals represents
a substantial improvement in quality of life," the investigators say.
"Increasing doses of oral insulin resulted in a dose-dependent increase in
(blood) insulin concentrations and subsequent (sugar)-lowering effects,"
the researchers report.
Dr. Simona Cernea and colleagues from Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital,
Jerusalem, Israel compared the new formulation with injectable regular insulin
in seven healthy volunteers.
Except for the highest dose of oral insulin spray (20 puffs), maximum
insulin concentrations were significantly lower for the spray than for
injected insulin, the authors report in the journal Diabetes Care,
but there was a clear dose-response in blood concentrations of insulin
with the spray.
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