Patient was educated on how to take rapid-acting insulins as follows: Take the insulin shot at the same time every day, to avoid forgetting the shot. This also helps to avoid lags in insulin coverage or stacking up the doses of insulin too close. Forgetting the shot can precipitate an episode of elevated blood sugars. Since these insulins have a very short duration of onset of action, the shot must be taken 15 minutes before [...]

Patient was educated on rapid-action insulins as follows: Rapid-acting insulins are insulins that are very fast acting and have the shortest duration of action among all the insulins groups. These insulins have a very short onset of action of 15 minutes. The action of these insulins peak in about one hour. These insulins continue to exert their action for a total duration of 2 to 4 hours. Examples of rapid acting insulins include- Apidra, Humalog, [...]