Argumentative Essay On Insulin Pumps

As long as I can remember my mother has battled diabetes with the requirement of testing, monitoring, and the use of insulin injections to maintain a healthy blood sugar level. This has been stressful and painful for her to live with, I watched my mother in her daily routine as she bears her disease of diabetes. Living with diabetes can be frustrating when using traditional forms of treatment like MDI (Multiple Daily Injections) to control blood sugar levels. Dinsmoor states in the article he wrote on Insulin Pumps “MDI regiments are absorbed unpredictably into the blood causing the fluctuating of blood glucose levels”. In contrast to the traditional forms of treatment, insulin pumps provide a less chaotic lifestyle that is involved in MDI treatment. But still for many others main downside of the pump is that it must be continuously connected to the body (Dinsmoor 3). Jeanne Going, 41, of Tuscan, Arizona, decided to give the pump therapy a try in the early 1990’s and says she found it to be …show more content…
For people who have frequent episodes of severe hypoglycemia, insulin pumps are especially beneficial (Dinsmoor 4). Hypoglycemia being high levels of sugar in the blood stream, which is a potential risk for a diabetic coma. The insulin pumps create a constant flow to maintain even glucose levels. My mother has had episodes of high blood sugar levels this has caused other complications to arise in her body. Dinsmoor’s article “The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Insulin Pumps”, gives examples of types of complications that can arise with uncontrolled glucose levels. With the peak of blood sugar, insulin is given to lower levels it can be administrated through an injection under the skin using a syringe or delivered through a pump which gives a continuous flow. Insulin injection is mostly self-administrated many times throughout the day. (Basile