I’m reading Tove Dietlevsen’s Dependence, and some time after she gets hospitalized for her painkiller addiction, she is given an insulin injection. What is the purpose? Is it the 1940s thing? Did it have something to do with the fact she had trouble eating?
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We also use insulin (with sugar) on occasion to bring down potassium levels in the blood when they are too high. I haven’t read the book so I don’t know the circumstances or if this applies but it is another use for insulin outside of diabetes.
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