Title: Medication Instructions for the Sick Diabetic<br/>Author: Ellen Lemkin<br/><a href='http://umem.org/profiles/faculty/182/'>[Click to email author]</a><hr/><ul>
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Hold metformin if the patient is at risk for dehydration (eg. vomiting, diarrhea) due to the risk of lactic acidosis</li>
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Medications that stimulate insulin secretion (eg. sulfonylureas, repaglinide, or nateglinide) should be held if the patient is at risk for hypoglycemia</li>
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Patients usually should continue their basal insulin, but may decrease or hold their bolus dosing.</li>
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Finger sticks should be checked every 2-4 hours for those on insulin, or 2-4 times per day for type II diabetics not on insulin.</li>
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Diabetes. Pharmacist's Letter March 2013;29(3):13-4.</p>
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