Advantages of umbilical vein insulin infusion

Physiological effect of insulin

• In non-diabetics, the insulin is produced prehepatically by the pancreas, i.e., directly before the liver.

• In conventional therapy, insulin is injected or infused subcutaneously and travels through the veins to the heart and from there to the liver.

• In the insulin infusion into the umbilical vein, the insulin is going through the umbilical vein in the peritoneum. This insulin, admitted from the peritoneum, reaches the liver first, which corresponds to the physiological route.

Benefits of the fast insulin effect

• In subcutaneous insulin injection the insulin is coming in a roundabout way and in less concentration to the liver. Dependent on the slow resorption out of the subcutaneous tissue, it is unable to become a fast postprandiale insulinism of the liver. Also no rapid response is possible to hypoglycaemia or hyperglycaemia!

• With umbilical vein insulin infusion the insulin takes effect within a few minutes. The patient can also be certain that the quantity of insulin required will have the anticipated effect. A rapid response to hyperglycaemia is therefore possible!