Insulin-induced atrophy

Small dents that form on the skin when a person keeps injecting a needle in the same spot. They are harmless. See also: lipoatrophy; injection site rotation.

Definitioner

Injection site rotation

Changing the places on the body where a person injects insulin. Changing the injection site keeps lumps or small dents (called lipodystrephies) from forming in the skin. People should, however, try to use the same body area for injections that are given at the same time each day; for example, always using the stomach for the morning injection or an arm for the evening injection. Using the same body area for these routine injections lessens the possibility of changes in the timing and action of insulin.

Injection

Putting liquid into the body with a needle and syringe. A person with diabetes injects insulin by putting the needle into the tissue under the skin (called subcutaneous). Other ways of giving medicine or nourishment by injection are putting the needle into a vein (intravenous/IV) or putting the needle into a muscle (intramuscular/IM).

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