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Hi all...
Today have been to my local hospital , to the eyeclinic for my eye check.
Whilst there the clinics senior nurse in charge, let me use a private room complete with sink, antibacterial handwash,disposable paper towels and a sharps bin too!
After I had done my levemir injection, I went to thank her for letting me use the room [ this was at 'her' suggestion not mine I might add here!]
We got chatting and she told me the reason why she suggested I use one of the clinics private rooms.
A mother with her child used the public toilets to do an insulin injection in, mother placed hand paper towels on the cistern and put the injection pen onto the paper towel and did the shot .
Days later she was seriously ill with infection and it was traced back to this.
Apparantly possible sanitary towels/tampons plonked on top of the cistern had caused blood to soak up in the paper towel and contaminated the needle ! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
Never ever use the public toilets to inject in I was firmly told - with the high risk of infection with exposure to other persons bodily fluids and urine/faeces [even when toilet flushes it causes spray too] thus spraying it all further and wider.
This really taught me a big fact to the risks of ever using a public toilet to inject in .
My mother was with me today and was equally horrified and shocked too.
I know we have to inject approx the same times daily, its not just the times to inject, its about the ' right safest places ' too !
Today have been to my local hospital , to the eyeclinic for my eye check.
Whilst there the clinics senior nurse in charge, let me use a private room complete with sink, antibacterial handwash,disposable paper towels and a sharps bin too!
After I had done my levemir injection, I went to thank her for letting me use the room [ this was at 'her' suggestion not mine I might add here!]
We got chatting and she told me the reason why she suggested I use one of the clinics private rooms.
A mother with her child used the public toilets to do an insulin injection in, mother placed hand paper towels on the cistern and put the injection pen onto the paper towel and did the shot .
Days later she was seriously ill with infection and it was traced back to this.
Apparantly possible sanitary towels/tampons plonked on top of the cistern had caused blood to soak up in the paper towel and contaminated the needle ! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
Never ever use the public toilets to inject in I was firmly told - with the high risk of infection with exposure to other persons bodily fluids and urine/faeces [even when toilet flushes it causes spray too] thus spraying it all further and wider.
This really taught me a big fact to the risks of ever using a public toilet to inject in .
My mother was with me today and was equally horrified and shocked too.
I know we have to inject approx the same times daily, its not just the times to inject, its about the ' right safest places ' too !