Poked Myself

[nepenthe]

I've poked myself before after giving him his shot - while trying to put the cap on. But this time, I was giving him his am shot - I slightly nicked my own finger as I went into him. Even in hindsight it was really hard to stop, as it was all one motion.

Could there be a chance of him getting any sort of serious infection? has anyone ever done this before?

 

[tuckers mom]

I'm sorry, I can't answer the second question but I suspect your kitty will be okay.

You mentioned you put the cap back on. Do you recap your syringes? Do you use a Sharps container? If you use a sharps or something similar you don't need to recap your syringes.

You can check with your municipality into Sharps disposals. BD also posts guidelines on disposal http://www.bd.com/us/diabetes/page.aspx?cat=7002&id=10284

If you use a Sharps you can also fit a lot more syringes into the container if you don't recap.

If you're not interested in a Sharps, there are needle clippers, I'm not trying to promote BD, but did a quick google search and theirs came up first: http://www.insulincase.com/BD-Safe-Clip-Insulin-Syringe-Needle-Clipper-P387.aspx

 

[Maggies Mom Debby]

I've used the BD needle clipper and it works great. Once you clip the needle you can throw the rest of the syringe away. (But you can't use it for the lancets.)

 

[nepenthe]

I've been usually capping them and putting them in an old metamucil container. I've read of a lot of people poking themselves trying to put the cap back on.

 

[BJM]

Lots of us here have poked ourselves, before, during, or after giving insulin to the cat (man, those things are sharp!). Sometimes, it happened to me when I'd inadvertently shoot through the tented skin. I have not yet seen any reports here of an infection in either person or cat from this simple poke with a potentially contaminated needle (if it was post-injection).

When I was dealing with them, I put my used lancets and used syringes into a heavy duty plastic container, then disposed. I'm a bit OCD and didn't trust the plastic to be impervious to the syringe needles, so I did re-cap by holding the cap open end up, setting the needle tip on the edge of the cap, then carefully maneuvering the cap onto the needle from there.

 

[kphmitten]

I don't believe you can as long as neither your cat nor you have any crazy blood borne diseases...what is it, SIRSA? You should be fine.

Those things are SHARP! I hate when I've accidentally poked myself.