Nobody likes needles - especially kids.
But children with diabetes have had to learn to live with daily shots. Now research is being done at Children's Hospital that reduces the number of insulin injections by giving insulin through an inhaler, similar to what an asthma patient uses. Instead of asthma medicine, there is an insulin tablet. A blast of air vaporizes the tablet and the patient breathes in the vapor for five seconds. The insulin inhaler replaces what's known as short acting insulin, normally given at mealtime.