Side Effects of Insulin on Patients with Diabetic Nephropathy

When people are attacked by Diabetic Nephropathy with high blood sugar, the common medicine recommended by their doctors is the Insulin. It is no doubt that the medicine can help patients a lot. But with the long time using the medicine, patients will suffer side effects as bellow:

1. Body weight gain
It is a common side effect of insulin. Insulin can promote the building-up of protein and fat. Therefore, if the patients do not limit their food intake and keep too much calorie intake after injecting insulin, it will cause them to gain weight gradually.

2. Ametropia
If the patients keep a high blood sugar level before insulin injection, they are very likely to have ametropia in the primary stage of using insulin. This side effect is just only temporary. With prolonging of using time, the patients will be able to control their blood sugar stably. This side effect will also disappear.

3. Edema
Insulin can cause mild retention of water and sodium. Consequently, some patients may have mild edema in face and limbs.

4. Sensitive reaction
It is mainly found among Diabetes patients using animal insulin including local and systemic sensitive reaction. If the patients are affected by local sensitive reaction, they will have maculopapule itching. For patients with systemic sensitive reaction, it can cause urticaria. What’s worse, some patients may have anaphylactic shock.

5. Partial lipodystrophy
The patients often have partial lipodystrophy in the injection site, which is mainly found among patients with animal insulin injection.

6. Decline sensitivity to insulin
For patients with a long history of insulin injection, their body will produce antibody of insulin. Consequently, the effect of insulin will decline.

7. Hypoglycemia
Generally, it is caused by excessive insulin injection. In order to avoid hypoglycemia in using insulin, the patients should begin with a small dosage of insulin in the early time and then increase the insulin dosage gradually until reaching a satisfactory controlling of blood sugar.


So what we want to say is that diabetic nephropathy patients with high blood sugar can use the medicine to save their life and remit their serious symptoms, but should depend on Insulin more. They had better chose a natural and effective to replace the insulin, preventing the kidney failure. Now if you want to know more about the treatment for diabetic nephropathy, you can contact our online doctors, leave us messages or send email to kidneyhospitalabroad@hotmail.com, we will reply you within 24 hours.