Common Diabetes medicines and drug

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Controlling high blood sugar helps prevent heart disease, strokes, kidney disease, blindness, and circulation problems, as well as sexual function problems.
Some oral medicine are prescribe when there is a proper diet and exercise program to control high blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes. There basic function is to maintain body's proper response to insulin, thereby lowering your blood sugar.


Actos oral - Pioglitazone or Gilatazones belongs to Thizolidinedione .
Amaryl oral – Glimepiride, Diabinese oral – Chlorpropamide, Glucotrol oral – Glipizide, Glynase oral – Glyburide, Micronase oral - Glyburide, Tolinase oral – Tolazamine. These all belongs to Sulfonylurea.

The combination medication is used along with a proper diet and exercise program to control high blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes. Its function is to restore body’s proper response to the insulin which is naturally produced.

Ex: - Avandaryl oral (drugs rosiglitazone and glimepiride)
Glucovance oral (drugs glyburide and metformin)
Metaglip oral (glipizide and metformin)

Some other are:-
Byetta SubQ - Exenatide, prescribe along with other oral diabetes medications (e.g., metformin, chlorpropamide, glipizide, glyburide).
Januvia oral - Sitagliptin, prescribe along with other oral medications (e.g., metformin, rosiglitazone, pioglitazone).
Precose oral – Acarbose breaks carbohydrate into sugar, to maintain blood glucose after meal.
Riomet oral - Metformin reduce the amount of sugar that your liver makes and that your stomach/intestines absorb.
Xenial oral is prescribed by doctor in some cases for reduced-calorie diet, exercise, and behavior modification program to overweight (obese) persons lose weight.