When you have Type 1 Diabetes, your body no longer makes enough insulin, and it needs to be replaced.
This insulin replacement is known as insulin therapy which your medical provider will prescribe for you. It is important to understand how insulin replacement therapy works in your body so that you can control your blood glucose more easily.
Medications and devices used to treat Type 1 Diabetes
- Insulin Therapy: Injections that raise your insulin level and replace the insulin that you are missing
- Non-insulin Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes - Amylin analogs: Injections that reduce glucose production in the liver and slow the absorption of food
- Insulin pump therapy: Insulin delivery via a continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion device