Medical Definition of Insulin allergy

1. When a person's body has an allergic or bad reaction to taking insulin made from pork or beef or from bacteria, or because the insulin is not exactly the same as human insulin or because it has impurities. The allergy can be of two forms. Sometimes an area of skin becomes red and itchy around the place where the insulin is injected. This is called a local allergy. In another form, a person's whole body can have a bad reaction. This is called a systemic allergy. The person can have hives or red patches all over the body or may feel changes in the heart rate and in the rate of breathing. A doctor may treat this allergy by prescribing purified insulins or by desensitisation. See: desensitisation. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Insulin Allergy

insulin
insulin-antagonizing factor
insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
insulin-like-growth-factor-binding protein 6
insulin-like activity
insulin-like growth-factor-binding-protein 5
insulin-like growth-factor-binding proteins
insulin-like growth-factor binding protein 1
insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 2
insulin-like growth factor I
insulin-like growth factor II
insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3
insulin-like growth factors
insulin-stimulating peptide
insulin activating factor
insulin allergy (current term)
insulin antagonist
insulin binding
insulin c-peptide
insulin coma treatment
insulin dependent diabetes
insulin hypoglycaemia test
insulin infusion systems
insulin injection
insulin like growth-factor-binding protein 4
insulin like growth factor
insulin lipoatrophy
insulin lipodystrophy
insulin pump
insulin reaction

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