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Not purged needle before injection

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oliverlexie

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Hi,
My daughter is 7 ,Type 1 - diagnosed 9 weeks but seems like forever. I swear I have aged 20 years!
Last night she was showing her brother how the injection pen worked - between the 2 of them they managed to rupture the cartridge. So as it was a full cartridge but the last one I spent my evening searching for the out of hours pharmacy!
Anyway - this morning - put the new cartridge in ( slow release) and as my daughter is becoming involved in the injections she put the needle on and purged both pens ( 2 units) 5mm needles.
I administered the injection - she has 11 units of the slow release.It went in too quick and before it was too late I realised I had made the almighty mistake of not purging it fully as its a new cartridge.
Tried to be rational and worked out that I had put in approx 7 units of air and 4 of insuline - so have given her a top up and the school are keeping a close eye on her.
Panic over..............until......
Told my husband and he panicked as I had put air directly into her.It definately did not bleed after so its not into a vein. I have also been down to the school where she is happily playing and has been well all day - completely oblivious to how rubbish I am feeling as a mum at the moment.
Has anyone any advice - should I go to the hospital ( again) - Can't get hold of the nurse at the moment .
Many thanks
Julie
 
Hi,

I am unsure about the air issue, so can't answer that for you. However, as a long-term type 1 myself, I would advise you to keep at least one box of insulin (5 cartridges) spare always. Same with insulin pens, needles and test strips, keep supplies well stocked so that when accidents occur, there are spares to fall back on.

Hope everything is OK, and don't beat yourself up to much about it, things will become easier in time.

Nigel
 
Hi, Sorrry to hear about daughter. Don't feel bad about what happended. I've made plenty of mistakes. Two of my children have type 1 and I've made loads of blunders - especially in the early days! It might be worth doing a few extra blood tests today, just to make sure she is ok. Leggott
 
This got me thinking, so I called my Sister-in-Law (a doctor) and asked her. She said that this will cause no problems (even if the air is intoduced directly to a vein it has to be quite a bit to cause potential problems); however she also stressed that if you are at all worried ar require assurance then a call to the surgery is in order. She said surgeries get calls about this far more often than you'd think
 
Viv and her sis in law are quite correct, I was told the same thing in hospital when I noticed a small air bubble in an intravenous drip in the back of my hand, despite what you may see depicted on TV and film dramas it has to be quite a large amount of air injected directly into a vein to cause problems.
 
Thanks Very much for all your replies - she is still going !
I thought my life was really chaotic before all this happened ........

Just shows you to not take anything for granted and Thank your lucky stars on a daily basis!

Thanks again
Julie
 
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