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What is the best usage for acarbose tablets?
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Several: If have pre diabetes, can prevent/ delay overt diabetes. With diabetes controls post-eating blood sugars but many people can't tolerate for its stomach side-effects.
Answered 12/11/2012
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Take them before: you eat starch! It blocks the rapid conversion to sugar, which blunt the spike of insulin release. Must take before eating by at least one hour!
Answered 11/27/2017
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