{"id":2703,"date":"2005-07-01T23:00:09","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T23:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/a-safety-alert\/"},"modified":"2005-07-01T23:00:09","modified_gmt":"2005-07-01T23:00:09","slug":"a-safety-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/a-safety-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"A Safety Alert on Symlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does the below sound like anyone you guys know?<\/p>\n<p>They are concerned, and they should be, as to safety.  You can easily mess up the dosage.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mg, mcg, units, mL: How Will Symlin's Safety Measure Up?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/507312?rss\">Mg, mcg, units, mL: How Will Symlin&#8217;s Safety Measure Up?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the product information, Symlin should only be used in patients who: use their insulin as prescribed, but still need better blood glucose control; will follow their doctor&#8217;s instructions exactly; will follow up with their doctor often; will test their blood glucose levels before and after every meal and at bedtime; and understand how to adjust Symlin and insulin doses. Also, the prescribing information contains a boxed warning that highlights the risk of insulin-induced severe hypoglycemia, especially in type 1 patients. It also stresses the explicit need for appropriate patient selection. Due to the risk of hypoglycemia, all patients treated with Symlin should be instructed to initially reduce preprandial rapid- or short-acting insulin dosages, including fixed-mixture insulins (e.g., 70\/30) by 50%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the below sound like anyone you guys know? They are concerned, and they should be, as to safety. You can easily mess up the dosage. Mg, mcg, units, mL: How Will Symlin&#8217;s Safety Measure Up? According to the product information, Symlin should only be used in patients who: use their insulin as prescribed, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}