Patient was educated on long acting insulins as follows:

1. Long acting insulingenerally reaches the bloodstream in several hours after the shot was administered and tends to lower glucose levels evenly over a 24-hour period.
2. Examples of long acting insulins include, Insulin Detemir (Levemir) and Insulin Glargine (Lantus), Insulin Glargine (Toujeo), and Insulin Degludec (Tresiba).
3. All these products differ in chemical compositions and so, they differ with the duration of their actions. Longest acting is, Insulin Degludec, acting for a duration of about 48 hours.
4. Long acting insulins are also called basal or background insulins. They keep working in the background to keep your blood sugar under controlfor an entire day.
5. Currently, the popular practice is to give the patient a long acting basal insulin that will control the blood sugars steadily over a period of 24 hours. Along with this, giving rapid acting mealtime insulin along with a correction dose to regulate blood sugar levels after meals will be more effective.
6. This is like the action of insulin normally produced by your pancreas to help control blood sugar levels between meals.