If you have your blood sugar checked in hospital, ie on the ward as a patient, the same device will be used for all the patients.
I've not seen anyone take the trouble to clean the device in between patients. The lancet and the strip is new for each patient, though.
Diabetes can't be transferred from one patient to another.Thank you for answering. Yes, I used the new lancet in that lancing pen. Can you please tell me that if I can get diabetes this way? I mean by sharing equipment like this.
Edit: The guy who replied before you said that I will get hepatitis B.
I was just about to the same reply.If you have your blood sugar checked in hospital, ie on the ward as a patient, the same device will be used for all the patients.
I've not seen anyone take the trouble to clean the device in between patients. The lancet and the strip is new for each patient, though.
Diabetes can't be transferred from one patient to another.
Since you are using new Lancet so there is no danger of receiving ant disease
I don't think so because this pen doesn't make any contact with the blood. It's only pin of the Lancet that makes connection with the blood.Yes but I was just reading on the CDC website that sharing the outer body of fingerstick pen can cause deadly diseases.
If you have your blood sugar checked in hospital, ie on the ward as a patient, the same device will be used for all the patients.
I've not seen anyone take the trouble to clean the device in between patients. The lancet and the strip is new for each patient, though.
Does your mother (whose kit you used) have any deadly diseases? If not don't fret over it and next time get your own.Yes but I was just reading on the CDC website that sharing the outer body of fingerstick pen can cause deadly diseases.
No, you're right, @RachoxYou obviously didn’t come to the ward where I worked before retirement. It was a ward that specialised in infections and infectious diseases. The machine was cleaned between patients but it really was belt and braces, the risk of passing blood born diseases on really is infinitesimal unless there is blood dripping off the equipment.
Diabetes can't be transferred from one patient to another.
Since you are using new Lancet so there is no danger of receiving ant disease
spreading certain illnesses, such as
You should never share needles or finger-stick devices for any reason.
- HIV
- AIDS
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
When they say finger prick devices they are referring to lancets.. please read the article you link to.
When they say finger prick devices they are referring to lancets.. please read the article you link to.
This notice serves as a reminder that fingerstick devices should never be used for more than one person.
- Reusable Devices: These devices often resemble a pen and have the means to remove and replace the lancet after each use, allowing the device to be used more than once (see Figure 1). Due to difficulties with cleaning and disinfection after use and their link to numerous outbreaks, CDC recommends that these devices never be used for more than one person. If these devices are used, it should only be by individual persons using these devices for self-monitoring of blood glucose.
- Fingerstick devices should never be used for more than one person.
I checked my glucose levels and it was at 80 in the morning with fasting so my blood sugar levels are perfectly normal i guessSince your mother has the condition of diabetes, although the % of genetic occurrence is not that great, you ought to be visiting the doctor to see if you are or likely to be having diabetes too.
I just talked to a physician on a phone call. She said that I do not have any material risk. Sharing the device after changing the needle has the risk of HBV (Hepatitis B Virus) but it is extremely low and negligible. Anyhow, I know that my mom is not a patient of Hepatitis so there is no risk at all i guess thenThis is really worrying advice you're receiving. Stick with CDC.
Certain chemicals can be used to clean equipment to denature viruses and bacteria.
It is likely the person who worked on ward was unaware of the special cleaning fluid being used.
A "quick wipe" without these chemicals and the drying time they need would not destroy blood borne viruses.
Actually HIV is one of the ones you least have to worry about, it's pretty poor at surviving outside the body.
It's not sexually transmitted diseases you need to worry about but blood borne ones.
But what do I know I just some person on the Internet.
I just talked to a physician on a phone call. She said that I do not have any material risk. Sharing the device after changing the needle has the risk of HBV (Hepatitis B Virus) but it is extremely low and negligible. Anyhow, I know that my mom is not a patient of Hepatitis so there is no risk at all i guess then
It is getting serious. I mean are you talking about my mom getting some sort of blood infection from me?This pretty much also depends on your own previous historical activity? @andalsonofeden .
It's a "two way street" when messing with someone else's kit...
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