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How to dispose of test strips?

type1harley

type1harley

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Type 1
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As you can see from my profile picture, I use a Contour XT bm machine.
Usually I put my used strips in my sharps container. I'm just curious if I'm doing the right thing.

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type1harley said:
As you can see from my profile picture, I use a Contour XT bm machine.
Usually I put my used strips in my sharps container. I'm just curious if I'm doing the right thing.

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If the used strips are sharp the answer is yes. If not then no. :)
 
Sharps nine is fine, my dn said its contaminated waste so goes in sharps bin. Where
 
I put mine in the open fire.. It's alight most of the year. Lances in the sharps bin
 
I put mine in a sharps box because of the blood. I used to work in a vets and all of the things there that had blood on went into a 'contaminated waste' box (I guess human medicine would be pretty similar) so I don't throw mine into the bin just in case!

Indiana x


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If you were in a hospital they would go in a medical waste bin, but at home? Not to put a fine a point on it, someone could let a slab of raw meat fester in their kitchen cupboard at room temperature for four weeks and then throw it in the regular dustbin, and that's significantly more biohazard than a few (or a few hundred) strips with a fraction of a ml of human blood on them. Or lots of other things we throw away into normal rubbish with human blood and wastes on them.

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I put mine in the old box and just bin them. But I have found them in the bottom of my bag, in my shoe, on the floor and once in a sock that had been in the washing machine.


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