Results of intensified insulin therapy in type-I diabetics receiving instruction in self-monitoring.

Therapeutic success in I-Type diabetes (i.e., glycaemia close to normal levels in an effort to influence favourably the onset and progression of long-term complications), two important preconditions must be met. The patient must receive instruction in safe self-monitoring so he could administer insulin under the supervision of health-care personnel, either using some of the conventional protocols or, in some cases, even unconventional intensified therapy. The aim of the latter approach is good compensation of diabetes and the well-being of a patient to whom insulin administration poses no inconvenience while sophisticated technology helps him or her to overcome stressful situations.