Afrezza is an inhaled form of insulin
MANKIND CORPORATION
Inhaled insulin helps prevent blood sugar level to children with type 1 diabetes as effective as an injected version of hormonal medicine. Inhaped Powder, called Acrezza, is already for adults with Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes in the US, and now manufacturers plan to approve children.
Type 1 diabetes occurs when the body is unable to lower sugar blood sugar. People who have conditions need to carry insulin as a medicine each day, usually through injections. But blood sugar levels can still be difficult to control, especially after eating, if they have a spike, and after exercising, if they fall.
Michael Halller At the University of Florida, which is at the advisory board of Afrezza, and his companions are surprised if inhaled insulin, which can improve blood sugar control By moving easily than injected insulin, working with children too. To find out, they recruit 230 people between the ages of 4 and 17. Most participants have type 1 diabetes and needing the restriction of their condition.
All children have received basal insulin, which are injected once or twice a day to ensure that there is a basis of lower body level of the body all the time. The rapid action of insulin is usually required above it before the food. In 26 weeks try, some of the Children We have received acrezza as their rapid insulin movement, while others have injectable insulin.
Researchers know that two formulas are equally working well with blood sugar levels. the result Presented by the American Diabetes Association Meeting in Chicago in June.
“The mind is that it is a better insulin because of the shipping procedure and for certain patients with a needle phobia, it can take a lot of stress,” Haller said. “But more importantly, it provides patients with additional tools to their toolbox for managing a complex illness.”
The Insign version causes coughing more than injected, but it disappeared once the participants have been accustomed to it. Acrezza is not suitable for anyone who has lung problems, like asthma.
Kathryn Sumper At the University of Tennessee Science Center in Memphis says inhaled insulin may consistent with some children to go to hormone before they eat and therefore need to be a more powerful act of action. But he thinks that most probably keep injected formulas, which can be titrates better for small children, which may need lower children.
The corporation of Mannkind, the company that produces Afrezza, plans to file for regulation approval for the use of US children, said Haller.
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