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An FDA advisory committee today recommended approval of the first inhaled form of insulin. The recommendation came despite questions about use of the drug in people who have lung disease or were exposed to secondhand smoke.
The committee offered no specific restrictions for Exubera, but FDA officials said smokers probably would not be able to use the drug. Their blood sugar could fall dangerously low with Exubera because they absorb much more inhaled insulin in their lungs than do nonsmokers.
2. Inhaled insulin. How intriguing. But I wonder about whether or not people might take in too much or too little. And what about those patients, who started coughing and a small decrease in breathing capacity?
I can't help but wonder if this was studied enough before putting on the market.
Connie
3. You state in your message that use of the drug in people who have lung disease is questionable.Is asthma among this pathology?
Posted at 1:07AM on Sep 13th 2005 by Info for Health
4. It seems that there are about 18 million diabetic Americans. There must be thousands of products to choose from. What makes you choose one over the other, I don't know. All I know is, folks, please use NATURAL REMEDIES FIRST. There are many effective products and most have NO SIDE EFFECTS. I am not sure how many people have even heard of the word 'Ayurveda'. Just google it, do some research and you will understand the benefits. Ayurveda is a plant-based (phyto-pharmaa) medical system out of India. It is a volcano, ready to erupt.
So even though the FDA approves inhaled insulin, if your goal is to reduce your blood sugar level, avoid chemicals as the first priority. Use some ayurvedic products. It can really help all you diabetics. See Ayurveda has been around for thousands of years, even before the FDA, before the Merck's & the Pfizers. Diabetes has been around for thousands of years also, its just that corporations have deeper pockets but if you think logically, does it not make sense to use natural substances first and then turn to artificially based products? A complete reverse system has been the norm, let us together change this.
Posted at 3:21PM on Sep 19th 2005 by Amit Gadhia
5. I don't know what's unnatural about insulin, or what you think constitutes a "natural" product in the first place.
For those ready to go all homeopathic, remember that yes, indeed, it sounds nice, like you're just communing with the universe when you do it. That's great, and in most cases there is a scientific name for it, the Placebo Effect.
If your reason for choosing Ayurvedic medicine is that it's been around for thousands of years, please first recall what else has been around for thousands of years. Shorter life spans, more deaths in childbirth, etc. Ayurvedic medicine's availability didn't help with this.
And before impugning capitalistic principles, realize that if these medicines were efficacious, they would be far and away cheaper to produce and easier to profit from than doing lab research and testing and approval trials. They'd be everywhere.
Posted at 9:52PM on Oct 2nd 2005 by Medical Fool
6. The reason why ayurveda is not popular is because ladck of government funding and research. Ayurveda does not have deep pockets like Lilly, Pfizer who spend an INSANE amount, $450,000 AN HOUR....that is insane. So the the financial numbers speak louder. Understood that childbirth and life span extension has been on the rise; however, diabetes is diabetes, cholesterol is cholesterol, there is not ifs and buts abt those; that's a different area and ball game. When you don't feel sleepy, you pop a sleeping pill but allopathy does not solve the answer to the question that why am i not sleepy? Ayurveda does and goes deep. That's the diff bet chemicals and ayurveda. the big pharma's will not want to kill the pain, just relieve it temporarily, that's how they make money. Ayurveda goes deep. Kindly do some research and if u have the time: http://www.pr.com/press-release/3106
thanks and no offence to anyone what so ever; i respect your thoughts and belief. thers' no right or wrong.
Posted at 9:09PM on Oct 8th 2005 by Amit Gadhia
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There isn't a homeopathic alternative to insulin for Type 1 diabetics...I would be dead in 3 days to a week (depending on whether I chose to eat or not) without insulin. There is nothing in the world that I can ingest that will change that. Autoimmunity is far too complex to be fixed by chewing on some exotic plant.
Please keep your crackpot ideas to yourself, or at the very least, try to include more detailed information...for instance, it's entirely possible that certain remedies might assist the body with insulin sensitivity (i.e. help with type 2 diabetes). It doesn't help to be sensitive to insulin if you can't produce it though.
Finally,
Unless you're planning on donating your pancreas so somebody can use "natural" insulin, I suggest you leave synthetic insulin alone.
Posted at 6:23PM on Nov 21st 2005 by Jason