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Insulin pumps: How to get fitted.
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Insulin pumps: How to get fitted.

Donna van Zyl, Specialist Diabetic Dietician talks about the process of being fitted with an Insulin Pump. She talks about pumps with tubing and without tubing. Donna explains the differences between the two.

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We have various insulin pumps. We have insulin pumps that have a tubing and then we have insulin pumps that do not have a tubing which have a direct insertion onto the skin with the cannula that is inserted into the subcutaneous area. And then those pumps that have the tubing, we have the insertion site is inserted into the body, we have the tubing, and then we have the PDM or physically the pump that looks similar to, you know, sort of a smaller cell, a mobile phone, which is then the pump and the insulin would go through via the tubing. you

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