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Insulin is not working on a highly diabetic patient from last one month. reasons?
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Need more info: If a diabetic starts needing more and more insulin, then something is making the patient Insulin resistent. An infection? Steroids? Severe stress? Immobilization? Obesity?
Answered 9/28/2016
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