Symlin? [DSC]
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Brand Names: U.S.:
SymlinPen?;Symlin? [DSC]
Uses
- It is used to lower blood sugar in patients with high blood sugar (diabetes).
- Pramlintide works like amylin, a hormone needed for the body's use of food. Type 1 diabetics have no amylin of their own. Type 2 diabetics still make amylin, but may need more.
Dosing
How to take
- Use as you have been told, even if you are feeling better.
- Throw away needles in a needle/sharp disposal box and take the box back to your doctor when it is full.
- Give this drug at some other site from where you gave your insulin if you are also getting insulin.
- Do not mix this drug in the same syringe with insulin.
- Follow the diet and workout plan that your doctor told you about.
- It is given as a shot right before a meal into the fatty part of the skin.
- You may need to lower the dose of insulin you take, talk with your doctor.
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