Type 1 Sharps on holiday

[suzipuze_]

We are off on holiday soon for the first time since diabetes - what does everyone do with their sharps whilst away? Do you take them all back home with you?

 

[Squire Fulwood]

We are off on holiday soon for the first time since diabetes - what does everyone do with their sharps whilst away? Do you take them all back home with you?

I don't think I would like to leave them there if I couldn't identify a disposal service. I think I would take a yellow box with me.

 

[Robinredbreast]

You could take a tupperware box with you, that's what I did, but that was two decades ago.
You could also also google your question. Good luck and happy hols

 

[Deleted Account]

I never leave my sharps behind.
On the other hand, I don't take a formal yellow sharps box with me.

I find a small water bottle (often bought at the airport on the way out) is the perfect size for sharps and I decant them into my yellow bin when I get home ... another post-holiday chore whilst I watching my dirty clothes go round and round in the washing machine.

 

[GrantGam]

We are off on holiday soon for the first time since diabetes - what does everyone do with their sharps whilst away? Do you take them all back home with you?

I take an empty multivitamin container when I travel to work (away for a fortnight each time). It's always in my bag, fill it up with needles and then tip into into my yellow sharps bin when I get home.

 

[Squire Fulwood]

Are yellow boxes international? Can you get them disposed of in another country or wouldn't they know what to do with them? Tupperware boxes and bottles are fine unless it gets left behind and the finder doesn't know what it is.

 

[suzipuze_]

Thanks all! I was planning on the tupperware box so will go with that Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out on anything!

 

[DCUKMod]

If you are keen to take a formal sharps container, as opposed to anything else, I understand small ones are available on eBay and the like: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sharps-Bi...hash=item3cd25cc95d:m:m5QzEN1LL5OnMcouVHHddQw

I don't have any connection with the seller. I'm just illustrating the availability.

 

[noblehead]

An old test strip container (or two) would suffice, you would just need to bring them home and transfer to your sharps bin.

 

[Sarah69]

Get a needle clipper they're great, you just clip the end off your needle and throw contents in the bin no need for one of them yellow boxes!

 

[suzipuze_]

Ooh thanks @Sarah69! My daughter is on a pump so it's the big cannula insertion mio things that take up the room - but the clipping thing would definitely resolve that!

 

[Deleted Account]

Get a needle clipper they're great, you just clip the end off your needle and throw contents in the bin no need for one of them yellow boxes!

I don't get the needle clipper. My needles had the pointy bit which went into me (which clipped nicely) and a pointy bit which went into the pen and could not be clipped but was still dangerous. And the clipper was not strong enough to clip lancets.
They definitely are not long enough to clip the pointy part of my cannula inserter ... unless you clip it in multiple chunks.