Ken and Sneakers
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I know with other insulins it has been fine but want to make sure it is ok to prefill 10 days worth of lantus into syringes. Anyone have any experience or knowledge of this?
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Karen & Smokey(GA) said:Ken, if it's a consistent dose, you can fill a sample syringe with colored water.
Just take a used syringe, snip off the needle with a scissors.
Draw in some colored water to the dose line so the sitter can see compare the
sample to the dose she/he draws.
Actually, you can prefill levemir syringes. I did it when I was gone for 6 days and Beau was on an impossible to draw dose of .05u (that's "point zero five"). I also gave my sitter, who was testing, a higher do not shoot number because Beau could drop to the 30s sometimes on that dose. He ended up never giving insulin and I used those prefilled syringes when I got back. The last shot from them was two weeks after I had originally drawn it.Carolyn and Spot said:Hi Ken,
No can do, not with lantus or levemir either.![]()