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Bambi12

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Please can anyone help me with something I am very worried about?

I have a close friend who is a type one diabetic and uses animal insulin for her treatment - lately I have begun to worry over the safety of this insulin. Is animal insulin perfectly safe to use in that it has been thoroughly tested beforehand? Is there any possibility of diseases being passed from animals to the diabetic through the insulin? I suffer from health anxiety and once I get something like this in my head I find it very hard to stop worrying about it.

If anyone could please help me I would be very grateful, thankyou.
 
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hanadr

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Animal insulins are safe. they are purified to a VERY high degree.
 
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Grumpy

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My T1 mate reacted badly when he was changed from pig insulin to human; he had more hypos and no warning of the hypos. So they put him back on pig insulin.
He took a dim view of our diagnosis - that he was genetically closer to pigs! :mrgreen:
 
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Trinkwasser

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Over time I've met not a few people who had a poor response to Lantus (principally) and went back onto Porcine or beef insulins. Off the top of my head I can't recall any of them having problems - except for the difficulty of getting it prescribed

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