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<blockquote data-quote="Groundgripper" data-source="post: 1976846" data-attributes="member: 496735"><p>Sliced my knuckles open today on a piece of grubby armour plate, gave them a good suck and a wipe down with IPA, stings like mad but does the business, I have never had any form of finger infection other than raw sore hands during the winter whilst working with machinery, my recovery level from wounds is very fast, the pen type lancet I use gives a small pin prick that sometimes closes before I can get my test strip to it, I use an Acutest lancet pen with a spring loaded adjustable plunger to try to get blood out of my fingers when I test, and the lancet is manually fitted and removed, but due to the thickness of my finger skin, which is like old leather, I have to have it on its strongest spring setting and then it may take two or three tries to gain any red out.</p><p>I fully understand that others who deal with less grubby items regularly than I do may be more at risk, however in your case I believe the main culprit to be the pine needle and not nescessarily the lancet, and would more possibly be tetanus from the old tree needle instead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Groundgripper, post: 1976846, member: 496735"] Sliced my knuckles open today on a piece of grubby armour plate, gave them a good suck and a wipe down with IPA, stings like mad but does the business, I have never had any form of finger infection other than raw sore hands during the winter whilst working with machinery, my recovery level from wounds is very fast, the pen type lancet I use gives a small pin prick that sometimes closes before I can get my test strip to it, I use an Acutest lancet pen with a spring loaded adjustable plunger to try to get blood out of my fingers when I test, and the lancet is manually fitted and removed, but due to the thickness of my finger skin, which is like old leather, I have to have it on its strongest spring setting and then it may take two or three tries to gain any red out. I fully understand that others who deal with less grubby items regularly than I do may be more at risk, however in your case I believe the main culprit to be the pine needle and not nescessarily the lancet, and would more possibly be tetanus from the old tree needle instead. [/QUOTE]
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