Medicines used to manage hyperglycaemia: their adverse effects and management.

All medicines used to control hyperglycemia have potential adverse effects. The wide range of pharmacological actions of medication used in diabetes management, particularly when more than one medication is used, increases the breadth of predictable adverse effects. To provide the necessary advice to patients, it is imperative that pharmacists can easily recognise and provide strategies to ameliorate both common and predictable, as well as the less frequent but potentially serious adverse effects.