Actos Pills is used for the treatment of different type diabetes such as
- a healthy diabetic diet;
- regular exercise;
- smoking reduction;
- weight control;
- careful monitoring of blood glucose;
Actos may be used alone or in combination with metformin, a drug in a different class of anti-diabetic drugs, that also lowers blood glucose.
Since it requires naturally-secreted insulin to be effective, actos is not recommended in type I diabetes where the amount of insulin is very low or absent.
Nevertheless, actos is approved for treating type 2 diabetes in combination with insulin as well as another class of anti-diabetic drugs, the sulfonylureas.