Drugs: Insulin, Tolbutamide, Metformin, Glipizide, Glybenclamide.
Patient counseling
• Educate patients and family members about weight
control, regular exercise, stress management, and avoiding smoking.
• Instruct BP measurement.
• Keep away the factors which increase blood sugar
levels.
• In case of attack, take rest.
• Not to change brand, strength, dose, or type of
dosage form without physician’s advice.
Consult the physicians regularly.
• Do not discontinue the dosing. Take missed doses as
early as possible, but do not take two
doses at once.
• Sustained release tablets must be swallowed whole.
• Do not drive after the administration of drugs.
• Contact the physician if there is redness or itching at the site of injection.
• Advice to carry some sugar-containing food and carry an identity card that bears the wording
“Diabetic Patient”.
• Explain the sign and symptoms of hypoglycemia and
hyperglycemia.
• Advice to avoid alcohol during treatment.
• Take care of an infection, cuts, injury, and surgery because it delays wound healing.