I am due to start insulin on Monday and just wonderd what you do with any sharps you might have when out and about. I don't really want to take my sharps bin everywhere! I did think of using an old strips pot and then emptying that into my sharps bin when i get home but would like to hear what you all do.
What do you do with sharps when out and about.
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That is exactly what we do, use 1 or 2 old test strip pots!!
If we are staying overnight anywhere then i take a small square plastic box with a locking lid and use that - it has flaps that fold down and 'lock' over each of the 4 edges.
If we are staying overnight anywhere then i take a small square plastic box with a locking lid and use that - it has flaps that fold down and 'lock' over each of the 4 edges.
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Test strips can be chucked into a normal household bin at home or out, they aren't classed as clinical waste, this is also the same for the multi-click lancet drums, never can cause a finger stick injury..
Needles and single lancets, Well needles can go back in the cover and back into the slot for spare needles in the pen box no probs, lancet if you change stap the old into the cover from the fresh one, and tuck it into the pocket in meter case!
My empty cartridge and vial go straight into household waste always have done..
I now use a pump, so things are slightly different, as I only change infusions sets every 3 days..
When I on holiday which isn't that often due to I won't put my dogs into kennels, so if my dogs can't come I don't go! But when I do I go back to the old ways of disposing of kit..
Old drinks can, everything goes in there then taped over and slung in the dust bin!
Needles and single lancets, Well needles can go back in the cover and back into the slot for spare needles in the pen box no probs, lancet if you change stap the old into the cover from the fresh one, and tuck it into the pocket in meter case!
My empty cartridge and vial go straight into household waste always have done..
I now use a pump, so things are slightly different, as I only change infusions sets every 3 days..
When I on holiday which isn't that often due to I won't put my dogs into kennels, so if my dogs can't come I don't go! But when I do I go back to the old ways of disposing of kit..
Old drinks can, everything goes in there then taped over and slung in the dust bin!
I have a clipper which we had on prescription. You just clip the needle off the end and throw the rest of the casing away. This clipper will hold the little clippings for ever and ever amen.
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Old strip pots great to take in your handbag with you for the sharps , for the fellas also the gals morrisons sell tiny childrens tupperware box ideal to pop in pocket of coat . Anna.x
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I always put used strips straight in the bin anyway and i do the same as you with lancets Have just checked the box my pens come in and theres no place for needles. I'm going to be using disposable pens. Not sure a clipper would work with my needle type will ask the DSN. I usually go to Morrisons Anna so will look out for those boxes
I always put used strips straight in the bin anyway and i do the same as you with lancets Have just checked the box my pens come in and theres no place for needles. I'm going to be using disposable pens. Not sure a clipper would work with my needle type will ask the DSN. I usually go to Morrisons Anna so will look out for those boxes Both the disposable pens and the reusable pens use the same needles, so the safeclip device will work with either - they're easy to get on prescription. I have a Joe's small-in-one case that I carry my insulin and meter in and my used needles get the cap put back on and then go back into the case until I get home. If I'm away for a couple of days, I use a lock and lock box as others have said.
I use an empty test strip pot too. I use http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetic-prod ... t-bag.html to keep everything in - with a small meter like an accu chek aviva nano, there is space for 2 test strip pots - one for strips, one for sharps,
Same as I do with single use, catheters
Pop in the disabled Loo drop them in the Nasties bin its normally the smaller bin out of the two
if its only sharps for a day or two would take them home with me
Pop in the disabled Loo drop them in the Nasties bin its normally the smaller bin out of the two
if its only sharps for a day or two would take them home with me
