Antidiabetic Drugs
Metformin
Metformin is a medicine used together with diet to lower high blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes. Metformin works by lowering the amount of glucose absorbed from intestines, decreasing how much glucose is made in the liver and improving insulin sensitivity.
Glipizide
Glipizide is an oral diabetes medicine that helps control blood sugar levels by helping your pancreas produce insulin.
Glimepride
Glimepiride is an oral diabetes medicine that is used together with diet and exercise to improve blood sugar control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Glimepiride is not for treating type 1 diabetes.
Glyburide
Glyburide is an oral diabetes medicine that helps control blood sugar levels. Glyburide is used together with diet and exercise to improve blood sugar control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Acarbose
Acarbose slows the digestion of carbohydrates in the body, which helps control blood sugar levels. Acarbose is used together with diet and exercise to treat type 2 diabetes. Acarbose is sometimes used in combination with insulin or other diabetes medications you take by mouth.