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Intensified conventional therapy (short : ICT)
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The ICT originally developed from the CT. With the ICT a treatment has been established that allows to consider more carefully human conditions that are not of a diabetic nature.
The ICT consists of a basal rate that is given either once (when using Lantus©-Insulin) or 2 to 3 times (when using NPH-basal-insulin) a day and a rapid-acting insulin that is injected before the meals. The rapid-acting insulin can either be an insulin analogue (e.g. Humalog or Novo Rapid) or a regular insulin.
The short-acting insulin (also called bolus insulin) is calculated from the BE-volume of the food and a individual factor depending on the time of day.
The basal insulin covers the need of insulin independent from nutrition.
Advantage : -
A individual and spontaneous way of life is possible: You will gain mor quality in life.
- Good adjustment of the blood glucose
Disadvantage : -
More injections : If eating irregularly and more than usual when using an insulin analogue up to 8 injections a day might be necessary.
- The basal rate does not exactly fit to the human metabolism. If it is set wrong or the dose is not sufficient, this can lead to hypoglycemia.
Result: From our point of view the ICT is the best therapy using syringes to treat type 1 diabetes. As many people who suffer from type 1 diabetes are quite young the self-employedinjection of a dosis depending on the nutrition should not be a problem. The quality of life attained through ICT and insulin analogues is quite similar to not having diabetes. The CSSI treatment with a pump is a special kind of ICT.
Translated by Jella Eifler
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