I often hear people say that they gain weight after taking insulin, so some diabetic patients say: "You will gain weight if you don't eat even if you take insulin." It seems that becoming obese after taking insulin is inevitable, and insulin takes the blame for weight gain. In fa

I often hear people say that they gain weight after taking insulin , so some diabetic patients say: "You will gain weight if you don't eat even if you take insulin." It seems that it is inevitable to become obese after taking insulin, and insulin takes the blame for weight gain. In fact, more than half of 2 type patients with type 1 diabetes have already exceeded the normal weight (that is, overweight or obese), and they are fat themselves.

And according to the principles of immortality of matter and energy conservation , the main cause of obesity is "cannot control the mouth and cannot move the legs." If you eat a lot of food every day and do not move after eating, you will immediately suffer from "geyouparalysis". The less you consume, the more you will gain weight. The role of insulin in the body is just to prevent nutrients from being wasted and to be fully utilized. If you don't eat more and consume less, you won't gain weight by taking several bottles of insulin a day.

There are no absolutes in the world. Some patients gain weight after initially using insulin. This may be related to the adverse reactions of insulin edema and water and sodium retention. It is also related to the reduced loss and increased absorption of nutrients after blood sugar is controlled. So, in order to avoid weight gain after taking insulin, what should we do? Master the following principles:

1. Patients who are too obese do not actively use insulin therapy. When they must use it, the dosage is often too high and the effect is poor.

2. If a diabetic patient gains weight after receiving insulin treatment, the indications for insulin treatment should be re-examined. Patients who can use it or not should preferably not use it, and those who can use it less or not more should use it.

3. Strictly control your diet and increase your physical activity. This is the most important way to avoid weight gain.

4. Biguanide drugs, glucosidase inhibitors or glitazone hypoglycemic drugs can be appropriately added to reduce appetite and at the same time reduce the dosage of insulin.

For diabetic patients who are already overweight or obese, further increase in weight is not conducive to the control of metabolic disorders such as blood sugar. Therefore, in the treatment of diabetes, it is necessary to strictly control diet and actively carry out physical exercise to maintain a normal weight.