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langatw33

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
My 6 year old t1 boy is developing abscesses every time I give him an injection, and now he is scarred all over, what do I do?
 
Can you phone your clinic or diabetes nurse and ask for URGENT advice? (I'm assuming that you use a new needle every time you inject?)
 
Talk to your doctor! This is absolutely not normal. Are you using new, clean needles? Are you wiping new pens with alcohol wipes? Are his blood sugars unusually high (thereby making him more likely to get infections)? Has he got any other conditions that could cause or exacerbate this?
 
EllieM said:
Can you phone your clinic or diabetes nurse and ask for URGENT advice? (I'm assuming that you use a new needle every time you inject?)
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I've done that, and he told me to give an injection an angle of 90 degrees, BT things haven't changed. About the needles, they are new, and I wipe with methylated spirit first.
 
phdiabetic said:
Talk to your doctor! This is absolutely not normal. Are you using new, clean needles? Are you wiping new pens with alcohol wipes? Are his blood sugars unusually high (thereby making him more likely to get infections)? Has he got any other conditions that could cause or exacerbate this?
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New needles, yes, methylated spirit is what we use to wipe............ We haven't succeeded in controlling the levels of late esp when our glucometer became faulty.
 
If in UK then any meter company will send you a free meter being for a type1. See your other post about asking us on forum for charity?
Hope you get one asap.
 
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