Liraglutide
Related terms
Brand Names: U.S.:
Victoza?
Brand Names: Canada:
Victoza?
Uses
- It is used to lower blood sugar in patients with high blood sugar (diabetes).
- Liraglutide works like incretin, a hormone needed for the body's use of food.
Dosing
How to take
- Use as you have been told, even if you are feeling better.
- It is given as a shot into the fatty part of the skin.
- Take with or without food. Take with food if it causes an upset stomach.
- Wash your hands before and after use.
- Prepare pen before first use.
- Do not mix this drug in the same syringe with insulin.
- Give this drug at some other site from where you gave your insulin if you are also getting insulin.
- Throw away needles in a needle/sharp disposal box and take the box back to your doctor when it is full.
- Attach new needle before each dose.
- Follow the diet and workout plan that your doctor told you about.
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