Dianben contains metformin, a medicine used to treat diabetes. It belongs to a group of medicines called biguanides.
Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that helps your body take up glucose (sugar) from the blood. Your body uses the glucose to produce energy or stores it for later use.
If you have diabetes, your pancreas doesn’t produce enough insulin, or your body can’t properly use the insulin it produces. This causes high blood glucose levels. Dianben helps lower your blood glucose to as normal a level as possible.
If you are an overweight adult, taking Dianben for an extended period also helps reduce the risk of diabetes-related complications. Dianben is associated with maintaining or slightly reducing body weight.
Dianben is used to treat patients with type 2 diabetes (also called “non-insulin-dependent diabetes”) when diet and exercise alone are not enough to control their blood glucose levels. It is especially used in overweight patients.
Adults can take Dianben alone or in combination with other medications to treat diabetes (medicines taken orally or insulin).
Children aged 10 and older, and teenagers can take Dianben alone or together with insulin.
