Sulfonylureas Sulfonylureas are medicines used to treat Type 2 diabetes when a nutrition and exercise program alone fails to control blood sugar. Sulfonylureas may be used as the only diabetes medicine, taken with another diabetes pill, or taken with insulin injections. The medicines have been in use for the past 40 years. Sulfonylureas lower blood sugar by helping the pancreas produce more insulin and making the muscles and liver use up excess sugar. Sulfonylureas lower blood sugar only if the body produces some insulin.
Several sulfonylureas are currently available.
You may need to take it two to three times per day, one to two times per day, or once per day. This depends on how many hours the medicine works and how difficult it is to control your blood sugar. To learn more about sulfonylureas, ask your health care provider. CHID is a database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources.