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I agree wholeheartedly with your first paragraph,
To be perfectly fair the parents would not know that the user did not have an infectious disease as well as diabetes. No harm in playing safe.[/B]
I get a sharps bin on prescription which when full is collected by the pharmacist.
On the question of CGM v finger pricks, I understand that the DVLA does not recognise CGM readings but insists on "real" blood tests,
I have not seen single use lancets / devices for a while in the pharmacy I go to, they are some thing from the Inquisition day.
Multiclix and Fastclix lancets just don't fall out, if the lancing device goes walkabout the lancets are shielded
Hi barbherod, I don't think any of us are blaming the parents for getting the infectious disease test done (we would ALL do that), but it's the way they word these articles, leaving ignorant people with the impression the child is being tested for diabetes(!) or with the implication that a diabetic per se is somehow contagious or dirty. It may seem a petty thing but it is part and parcel of what I call 'casual discrimination', small negative inferences that build up.
Well, of all the things a child is likely to encounter underneath a bar table, a lancet would be a minor worry.
discarded chewing gum
filthy carpet
mud
smears of dog faeces and other dirt from shoes
broken glass
stale food fragments
accidental kicking
Perhaps the parents should get the child checked out for worms, ghiardia, toxoplasmosis and cuts and bruises as well, to name but a few.
Why not? The likelihood of the child catching anything from it is minute and no-one knows how long it had been there anyway.I wouldn't call a used or an unused lancet, a minor worry !!
As I said before..... concerned enough to let their 2 year old crawl around on the floor in a pub.....what can I say?Even if that was the case, the concerned parents wouldn't know that, would they ?
As I said before..... concerned enough to let their 2 year old crawl around on the floor in a pub.....what can I say?
Do you have children ? we don't know if the child was crawling around on the pub floor, was that all over the pub floor, part of it, having a tantrum and constantly moving about ? Children should be allowed some freedom when out and about, but watched by an adult, as they are inquisitive and into everything.
If it was my child or grandchild who was pricked by a device unknown to me at the time and the establishment didn't know where it came from, I would be concerned enough to get the child medically checked out.
I wouldn't call a used or an unused lancet, a minor worry !!Everyday dirt and germs makes our immune syytem work better, I grew up with probably all of the above................. except for a used or an unused lancet.
I'm led to believe on the www so accessible if googled. It's not just for forum member's viewing.@DCUKMod. Question - Does the DCUK Newsbot only show these 'news' articles on here or elsewhere, either in the diabetic world or the non diabetic world ? Would be interesting to know.
Many thanks.
@DCUKMod. Question - Does the DCUK Newsbot only show these 'news' articles on here or elsewhere, either in the diabetic world or the non diabetic world ? Would be interesting to know.
Many thanks.
That was all the go catching std's from toilet seats in the 1960's.Well, everyone knows "dibeetus" is contagious...
Thankfully the lancets are retracted into the drum, so if you do drop a fast / multi clix lancet drum it is not going to cause a needle stick injury.The device wouldn't be shielded if the person in question changed their existing used lancet for a new one at the table, the old one could of rolled off on to floor or accidentally dropped and then forgotten about, so needle exposed.
Lots of if's, but's and maybe's in this situation.
Do you have children ? we don't know if the child was crawling around on the pub floor, was that all over the pub floor, part of it, having a tantrum and constantly moving about ? Children should be allowed some freedom when out and about, but watched by an adult, as they are inquisitive and into everything.
If it was my child or grandchild who was pricked by a device unknown to me at the time and the establishment didn't know where it came from, I would be concerned enough to get the child medically checked out.
Me too! Have you seen the carpets in Wetherspoons?..... a two year old under a table in a pub? Yeah, I'm dated too.
I buy my sharps bins from Ebay. And my DN signed my form so that the council collect the full ones.Anyone elsehad difficulty getting sharps bin?
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