Soluble insulins can be injected or used intravenously; the suspended insulins or mixes (cloudy insulins) cannot be used intravenously.
Soluble insulins are mostly in the fast-acting or short-acting classes, and are used alone (not as part of a mix) as bolus insulin to cover meals or as boosters for blood glucose "corrections" when one's blood glucose level is too high.
Fast-acting analog insulins: | |
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NovoRapid, Novolog (from Novo Nordisk) | |
Short-acting R-DNA/GE/GM insulins: | |
Actrapid, Novolin R, ReliOn/Novolin R (from Novo Nordisk) | |
Insuman Rapid (from Aventis) | |
Short-acting Bovine insulins: | |
Hypurin Bovine Neutral, Hypurin Vet Neutral | |
Iletin I R (from Eli Lilly) | |
Short-acting Porcine insulins: | |
Pork Actrapid (from Novo Nordisk) | |
Hypurin Porcine Neutral, Hypurin Pork Regular | |
Iletin II R (from Eli Lilly) |
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