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Please change insulin needles and lancing device needles EVERY single time.
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<blockquote data-quote="Spiker" data-source="post: 646001" data-attributes="member: 102150"><p>To be fair, that is an opinion about the cause of one incident. It's not even one conclusive incident.</p><p></p><p>There is no evidence of harm from needle or lancet reuse. The strongest result measuring actual harm shows some hyperlipotrophy. Other studies show other factors (edema on skin, skin flora on needle/lancet) which are linked by *opinion*, not evidence, to other harms, but showed no evidence of actual harm. </p><p></p><p>None of the reuse studies tested the protocol that actual reusers follow in real life - which is to change the needle or lancet when it hurts or feels odd. Therefore all the adverse findings in the existing studies are potentially explained by the fact that their reuse protocols continued past the point of the patient feeling pain. </p><p></p><p>These studies are probably cited way up this thread.</p><p></p><p>To reiterate, if people want to frighten people in order to make them change their behaviour, like the OP of this thread, then they should bring scientific evidence, or go home. </p><p></p><p>Talking about personal experiences like RRB is doing is totally fine. That is what the forum is for. But scaring people and telling them what they should be doing, as the OP did, requires evidence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spiker, post: 646001, member: 102150"] To be fair, that is an opinion about the cause of one incident. It's not even one conclusive incident. There is no evidence of harm from needle or lancet reuse. The strongest result measuring actual harm shows some hyperlipotrophy. Other studies show other factors (edema on skin, skin flora on needle/lancet) which are linked by *opinion*, not evidence, to other harms, but showed no evidence of actual harm. None of the reuse studies tested the protocol that actual reusers follow in real life - which is to change the needle or lancet when it hurts or feels odd. Therefore all the adverse findings in the existing studies are potentially explained by the fact that their reuse protocols continued past the point of the patient feeling pain. These studies are probably cited way up this thread. To reiterate, if people want to frighten people in order to make them change their behaviour, like the OP of this thread, then they should bring scientific evidence, or go home. Talking about personal experiences like RRB is doing is totally fine. That is what the forum is for. But scaring people and telling them what they should be doing, as the OP did, requires evidence. [/QUOTE]
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