What is Lantus used for?
Prescription LANTUS is a long-acting man-made-insulin used to control high blood sugar in adults and children with diabetes mellitus. Its effects last in your body for about 24 hours. The typical Lantus dosage for Type 1 diabetes is one-third to one-half of your total daily insulin requirement. For Type 2 diabetes, the usual starting dose is weight-based (0.
Why give Lantus at night?
Aims/hypothesis: Insulin glargine is a long-acting human insulin analog often administered at bedtime to patients with type 2 diabetes. It reduces fasting blood glucose levels more efficiently and with less nocturnal hypoglycemic events compared with human neutral protamine Hagedorn (NPH) insulin. The reason for switching from once to twice daily insulin glargine therapy was the limited ability to titrate insulin glargine doses at bedtime because of morning hypoglycemia (early morning or before breakfast) and/or persistent hyperglycemia before dinner despite titrating meal insulin doses at lunch.