That's a glucagon injection, not a glucose injection. A glucagon injection doesn't come in a pen - it's a kit with powder and sterile liquid I think you need to mix the two together before injecting and then the glucagon triggers a glucose dump from the liver. If you are prescribed a glucagon kit the DSN should give you and, more importantly, whoever is going to administer it, a little training session on how to use it.
@Shar67 looks like we are all getting confused about glucagon:
- Glucagon = the hormone that triggers a liver dump, I don't think it originates in the liver, it's a hormonal response to low blood sugar.
- Glycogen = the glucose stored in the liver that is dumped - this is what lives in the liver & the liver could be out of.
I've always though that "diabetic comas" refer to hyper events (DKA) too, and hypos are just hypos (well, you know, not
just hypos), but I can see why an unconcious hypo could be called a diabetic coma too. Just semantics