Lupinsulin 30:70 Dosage/Direction for Use

There are many known and practiced schemes of human insulin treatment. A doctor must choose and individually adjust a treatment to a patient, according to his requirements. Basing on the insulin concentration in a patient blood a doctor adjust a proper insulin dose and an insulin preparation. Patient must not apply any other insulin preparation except the one recommended by the doctor. The patient should not mix a prescribed by the doctor, insulin with another preparation if the doctor did not recommended it.
Before use, the patient should always check on the label the name and the a code of the insulin in the cartridge and make sure it is identical with the prescribed one. The patient should check the expiry date on the container. Do not apply after the expiry date.
Mode of Use: Lupinsulin preparations are for subcutaneous injection, and the preparation Lupinsulin can also be injected intravenously. Only in exceptional circumstances the Lupinsulin preparations may be administered intramuscularly. Lupinsulin is administered 15-30 minutes before a meal. During the preparation administration general hygiene rules should be observed: hands must be washed before the procedure and the injection site must be disinfected before administration.
Before the administration the cartridge containing insulin must be carefully watched.
Lupinsulin: The solution should be colorless and transparent. It should be water-like in the look and consistency. The patient should not apply the preparation, if the solution is cloudy, seems dense and/or colored. Suspension and mixture should be homogeneously opaque (Uniformly cloudy and milky). The cartridge should not be used it after mixing contain of both remains clear or there is a film of white substance on the bottom, there are white clusters floating, or solid, white particles remain stick to the walls making the preparation look frozen. The patient must especially careful not to introduce insulin in to a blood vessel during the injection.
Mixing Lupinsulin Solution with Suspension or Mixtures: Only the doctor can decide about mixing Lupinsulin with the suspension or mixtures. When preparing a mixture the patient should always introduce a short-time-effect insulin first into syringes. That is Lupinsulin. The patient should carry out the injection in the same way as described previously.
Insulin in Cartridges: Some Lupinsulin preparations are produced in cartridges which may be applied with multiple uses, pen injectors. In order to operate the injector (load the cartridge, insert the needle, carry out the injection) the patient must strictly observe the producers and follow the instructions. Suspension of Lupinsulin 30:70 should be mixed before every injection by mean of rotating up and down 10 times or rolling between both palms until homogeneous suspension appears. Rotation/Rolling should be continued until homogeneous cloudy or milky suspension appears. Content of cartridge can be mixed & fixed into pen. In emergency, the patient may use the cartridge insulin in a normal insulin syringe and proceed as explained by the doctor. (In accordance with the insulin concentration and dose).