The new drug successfully passes through the stomach and delivers the active substance to the patient's blood.

Previously, medicine could not offer an effective form of the hormone for oral administration. Currently, diabetics have to inject insulin through the needle up to six times a day.

Therefore, patients can get complications due to an overdose of insulin. The risk is especially increased when a person changes a habitual medicine for the products of another pharmaceutical company.

Recently, employees from Boston and the University of California were the first in the world to develop a tablet formulation that protects insulin from the effects of the digestive system.

They created a shell of a mixture of certain salts. A low melting point allows the drug to go into liquid form and leave unscathed after contact with gastric juice.

Salts are well split by the intestine, and the remnants of the pill help the hormone to overcome the walls and get into the blood vessels. Ionic fluid also fixes the effect of insulin so that it acts up to 12 hours.

Physicians are still preparing for clinical trials that will show the effect of insulin tablets in humans. If successful, medicines will be mass produced in a few years.

Thanks to them, people with diabetes can forget about painful and frequent injections.

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