Sahasrabudhe Ranjana, Limaye Tejas, Gokhale Vidya
Associate Professor, Pharmacology, BVDU Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra.
SRF, Diabetes Educator and Nutritionist.
J Assoc Physicians India. 2017 Nov;65(11):96-97.
Insulin is an integral part of Type 1 diabetes management. Patient education is of utmost importance to ensure proper injection technique for getting appropriate glycaemic control and to avoid injection site adverse effects. Commonest injection site adverse effect is lipodystrophy.1 We present a case where incorrect injection technique led to an unusual presentation of injection site adverse effect, which is resolving after correction of the injection technique.
