Diabetes

Metformin a diabetes medicine. It is prescribed as treatment for type II diabetes in cases where diet, exercise and weight loss have not worked, or in cases where insulin therapy is not appropriate. It helps control hyperglycaemia.

Metformin works by decreasing the amount of glucose produced by the liver or absorbed from food and restores the body’s proper response to insulin. The active ingredient metformin hydrochloride belongs to a class of drugs called biguanides and should be used with an exercise program and a proper diet to control high blood sugar. Controlling high blood sugar can help prevent sexual function problems, loss of limbs, nerve problems, blindness and kidney damage in patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

Mignar works by slowing the breakdown and absorption of table sugar and other complex sugars in the small intestine. The active ingredient miglitol is an antidiabetic type of drug that delays the digestion of carbohydrates in the body to decrease the amount of sugar that passes into the blood after a meal. The medication is usually used by people to treat type 2 diabetes when their condition cannot be controlled by diet alone.

Minirin containing the active ingredient desmopressin is considered a type of vasopressin analogue used as a hormone replacement. The man made hormone is used to help balance the amount of water and salt in the body by preventing excessive amounts of water from being filtered out of the blood and into the urine. The medication can be used to treat diabetes insipidus, a condition where the body is not functioning properly and produces an abnormally large amount of urine. Some patients may also use the drug to treat bedwetting.