[Dewey]

Originally Posted by JasonJayhawk

I noticed m-cresol is in most types of insulin as a preservative.

Just for fun, I looked it up on Google. I don't like what I see! Am I looking up the right thing? It's considered a suspected carcinogen... among other unhealthy things.

I'm not one to be paranoid about this kind of thing, but maybe in twenty years, we'll be saying, "I can't believe we used that!" I had a teacher in high school who tells stories of how the chemistry teacher they had in high school used benzene to clean overhead transparencies, before it was a known carcinogen...

So what's your take on m-cresol?

Sorry to drag this back up (for some reason, I didn't see it before). I too, share concerns about M-Cresol. I was under the false impression that it was not an ingredient in Novolog, but spoke with folks from the company who said it was in both Novolog & Levemir.

If memory serves, I didn't think it was in Humalog, but now, am not so sure.

My doctor did advise to keep infusion sets away from the breast region for safety's sake. I read the online compositional info. (on Apidra) and became very concerned to read about the outcomes of some of the (limited) studies they did on mice.

Again, this brings me back to my bit** against the FDA for allowing products with a carcinogenic/possible cellular altering ingredient to be released & used among the general population.

This brings me to my next thought...Is there an insulin (i.e. Humalog, or something) out there that doesn't have this m-cresol **** in it!?