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Give an Injection of insulin

A person with Type 1 diabetes requires daily doses of insulin to keep blood glucose levels to go too high. This means learning to inject insulin with a small needle into specific sites on the body. The technique is generally taught by your health care educator professional or diabetes, which ensures that you properly administer insulin. Sometimes people with Type 2 would also need insulin injections to control their blood sugar. Follow the "how to" to refresh your technique.Time required: 15-20 minutes at first, less than time is necessary when jurisdiction is reached.Gather your supplies: an insulin syringe, your bottle (or bottles, if you are mixing two insulins) of insulin, a wipe of the alcohol. For convenience in locating supplies, always keep your supplies in a small container or bag at the same location. Insulin should be refrigerated. Check the bottle of insulin, make sure that it is the right insulin. When you open a bottle of insulin, write the date on it. When the bottle is 30 days old, you must throw regardless of insulin is on the left. After 30 days, it loses its power. Wash your hands with SOAP and water. Make sure you dry well. Take the bottle of insulin between your hands and it rolls gently back and forth. This is particularly important for use with cloud to thoroughly mix the contents. Does shake a bottle of insulin. Insulin is fragile and can be damaged by rough handling. Open a wipe alcohol and high swab of the bottle of insulin. If the bottle has not yet been opened, remove the protective cover. It will usually be pop off with a bit of pressure on the rise. Get your syringe in hand. With the other hand, grasp the needle Cap firmly between your thumb and forefinger. Pull the cap off straight, without touching the needle. Note the number of units of insulin you are going to be injection. Remove the plunger of the syringe and drawing air into the syringe to the same amount of units. Insert the needle into the stopper to the bottle of insulin and push the plunger to inject air into the bottle. This helps you get the easier insulin because the air moves the volume of insulin and equalizes the pressure in the bottle. Leave the needle in the bottle, disrupting the bottle and make sure that the tip of the needle is under the surface of the insulin. Remove once more on the plunger to fill the syringe with a little more than the number of units required. If there are air bubbles trapped in the syringe, tap it gently with a nail to dislodge the bubble to make the float to the top. Push air bubbles in the bottle and pull back again to fill the syringe with the right amount of insulin. Take the needle of the bottle. Choose the location of the injection. Follow the diagram given to you by your health care professional, to rotate the site, so that you do not always use the same place. The skin may become difficult and uneven if you use only one domain, so make sure you that you rotate when you give the injection. Open an another alcohol wipe or use one that you used on the bottle of insulin, if it is not yet dry. Clean up the site in a circular motion. Let dry skin before continuing. It takes only a minute or two. Try to relax the muscles around the area of the site. The injection will not also painful if you relax. Now, take the skin between your thumb and your index and pinch. With the other hand, take the syringe and the needle is at an angle of 90 degrees with the site. (If you are thin or this injection is for a child, an angle of 45 degrees to the site is preferable). Gently push the needle into the skin at the hub of the needle. Push the plunger all the way in to inject insulin in adipose tissue.After a few seconds break the needle. Make sure that you draw in the same angle that you put it so that the site is not traumatized. If the site is bleeding, you can apply pressure on the site with the wipe of the alcohol. He must stop the bleeding in seconds. Carefully place the cap on the needle taking care to not keep to yourself. Dispose of the syringe in a sharps container or use a bottle of detergent empty laundry with a screwtop lid. There are many community drop off points which will be your properly stored used syringes. Usually the pharmacies and hospitals will be happy to sell them for you.Deliver insulin in the fridge and put all your supplies in your placem specially designated for the next time. And congratulations on a job well done.Some people reuse their needles to reduce costs, but syringe manufacturers do not recommend their reuse. When you use a syringe, is more sterile and you take the risk of skin infections in using a contaminated needle. Also, it is not wise to consume alcohol to clean the needle, because this bands silicone coating off the coast of the needle, making more irritating to the site.Never share syringes. Diseases such as AIDS and hepatitis are spread through blood to blood contact and sharing of syringes puts you at risk.Don't forget to check your blood glucose levels 1 to 2 hours after your injection, or earlier if you feel of signs or symptoms of hypoglycemia.Bottle or bottles of insulinSyringeAlcohol wipeif (zSbL)

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