ORAL DIABETES MEDICATIONS - Quia



|NAME OF MEDICATION |Max Dose/ Day/mcg |HOW DOES IT WORK? |HOW TO TAKE THE MEDICINE |POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS |TIPS AND OTHER INFORMATION |

|Class: Incretin Mimetic | |Helps your pancreas release right|Take Byetta within 60 minutes of |Mild to moderate nausea |Don’t take after a meal |

| | |amount of insulin |morning and evening meals |Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) Carry |Store at room temperature |

|Brand Name: | |Slows glucose production |Can be used in combination with |fast acting sugar source |Protect from light & do not freeze |

|*Generic |20 mcg |Slows gastric emptying (decreases|Metformin and/or Sulfonylureas |Vomiting |Only can be used for 30 days, discard any |

|Byetta |(10 mcg before each |hunger) | |Diarrhea |left after that time |

|*Exenatide |meal.) | | |Jittery, acid stomach | |

| | | | |Weight loss, decreased appetite | |

|(Pre-filled injection pen in | | | | | |

|5 mcg or 10 mcg) | | | | | |

|Class: Amylinomimetic | |Slows glucose production |Must be taken before meals (250 |Nausea, loss of appetite |Do not inject if a meal is skipped |

| | |Makes your cells more sensitive |calories or 30 gms Carb) |Metallic taste in your mouth at the |If dose is missed, take usual dose next |

|Brand Name: *Generic |Type 2 -- 120 mcg |to insulin |Before first dose, rapid-acting |beginning of treatment |time |

|Symlin |(20 units) |Slows gastric emptying so you eat|mealtime insulin should be reduced|Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) when |Watch for hypoglycemia 3 hrs after |

|*Pramlintide acetate |before eating. |less (decreases hunger) |by 50% when starting Symlin |used with other diabetes medications |injection |

| | | | |Carry fast-acting sugar source |Open vials can be refrigerated or kept at |

|(Injected same way as insulin, but only in |Type 1 -- | | | |room temperature for 28 days |

|abdomen or thigh, use U-100 syringe) |60 mcg | | | | |

| |(10 units) before | | | | |

|Never mix Symlin with insulin |eating. | | | | |

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