Lantus SoloStar Uses

Lantus SoloStar is used to achieve glycemic control by lowering blood glucose levels in adults and children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (who don’t make enough insulin) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (who have impaired glucose tolerance and don’t respond to insulin as they should). It is not used to treat diabetic ketoacidosis.

There may be other uses of Lantus SoloStar—your doctor or health system pharmacists can give you further drug information.

Lantus SoloStar Mechanism of Action

Lantus SoloStar and other insulin analogs lower blood glucose by mimicking the blood glucose-lowering effect of natural insulin hormones in the body. Insulin helps to regulate blood glucose levels by inhibiting hepatic glucose production and stimulating peripheral glucose uptake.

Lantus SoloStar Doses

Insulin glargine is available as a 10-mL multiple dose vial and a 3-mL prefilled Lantus SoloStar insulin pen. Each prefilled 3-mL Lantus SoloStar pen contains 300 units of insulin glargine.

The Lantus (glargine insulin) dose is individualized for each patient, based on the type of diabetes, glycemic control, blood glucose monitoring, metabolic needs, and prior insulin use. 

The basal insulin dose baseline is typically 0.2 units per kilogram of body weight in insulin-naive patients. Your doctor will tell you how to switch from another type of insulin, for example, once or twice daily NPH insulin.

In people with diabetes mellitus type 1, insulin glargine must be used with a short-acting insulin. In people with diabetes mellitus type 2, insulin glargine may be used with other types of insulin and/or oral diabetes medications.