Workplace Injections - DAFNE Online

May 13, 2014 19:26

Teanosugar DAFNE Graduate
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust 25 posts

Thanks, EPS. Yeah, I've been given a disabled toilet and have realised its advantage. I think I'll look out for them if I ever need to inject in public places.

May 15, 2014 18:39

Stew B DAFNE Graduate
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital 125 posts

I guess we diabetics find ourselves injecting in some fairly unhygienic situations without really thinking about it (as a keen bird watcher I've spent time at various sewage farms, rubbish dumps, chemical factories etc. home and abroad and haven't thought twice about injecting). However if I went to my GP for an inoculation ('flu jab for instance) and he took me into the toilets to deliver the jab I'd raise my eyebrows quite high! Just saying..

May 23, 2014 05:48

Ole DAFNE Graduate
Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania 1 post

I reckon you're being a tad over cautious with this one.
If your personal hygiene is good, each disposable needle is new & not re-used,
then the immediate surroundings are irrelevant.
I've discreetly injected in outdoor public places, restaurants, work places, lakeside shores & scrub while fishing,
& bushwalking without issue.
Each injection takes less than 10 seconds & it's never been an issue in almost 40 years as a diabetic.

May 23, 2014 07:56

EPS DAFNE Graduate
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust 3 posts

Ole said:
I reckon you're being a tad over cautious with this one.
If your personal hygiene is good, each disposable needle is new & not re-used,
then the immediate surroundings are irrelevant.
I've discreetly injected in outdoor public places, restaurants, work places, lakeside shores & scrub while fishing,
& bushwalking without issue.
Each injection takes less than 10 seconds & it's never been an issue in almost 40 years as a diabetic.

I agree that with self-contained pens less attention to surroundings is necessary. However, I still use disposable syringes and larger, multi-dose phials on occasion and - because of fifty years of injections - my abdomen sites are not always ideal so a bit more attention is needed. Placing a phial and syringe on a filthy shelf or toilet cistern lid in a pub lavatory is not an option as far as I am concerned and the same goes for blood testing. The risk of contamination is not worth taking when that risk can be eliminated easily - and I'm no Howard Hughes! Soap and water still have their uses.

May 13, 2014 19:26 Teanosugar DAFNE Graduate North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust 25 posts	Thanks, EPS. Yeah, I've been given a disabled toilet and have realised its advantage. I think I'll look out for them if I ever need to inject in public places.
May 15, 2014 18:39 Stew B DAFNE Graduate Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital 125 posts	I guess we diabetics find ourselves injecting in some fairly unhygienic situations without really thinking about it (as a keen bird watcher I've spent time at various sewage farms, rubbish dumps, chemical factories etc. home and abroad and haven't thought twice about injecting). However if I went to my GP for an inoculation ('flu jab for instance) and he took me into the toilets to deliver the jab I'd raise my eyebrows quite high! Just saying..
May 23, 2014 05:48 Ole DAFNE Graduate Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania 1 post	I reckon you're being a tad over cautious with this one. If your personal hygiene is good, each disposable needle is new & not re-used, then the immediate surroundings are irrelevant. I've discreetly injected in outdoor public places, restaurants, work places, lakeside shores & scrub while fishing, & bushwalking without issue. Each injection takes less than 10 seconds & it's never been an issue in almost 40 years as a diabetic.
May 23, 2014 07:56 EPS DAFNE Graduate Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust 3 posts	Ole said: I reckon you're being a tad over cautious with this one. If your personal hygiene is good, each disposable needle is new & not re-used, then the immediate surroundings are irrelevant. I've discreetly injected in outdoor public places, restaurants, work places, lakeside shores & scrub while fishing, & bushwalking without issue. Each injection takes less than 10 seconds & it's never been an issue in almost 40 years as a diabetic. I agree that with self-contained pens less attention to surroundings is necessary. However, I still use disposable syringes and larger, multi-dose phials on occasion and - because of fifty years of injections - my abdomen sites are not always ideal so a bit more attention is needed. Placing a phial and syringe on a filthy shelf or toilet cistern lid in a pub lavatory is not an option as far as I am concerned and the same goes for blood testing. The risk of contamination is not worth taking when that risk can be eliminated easily - and I'm no Howard Hughes! Soap and water still have their uses.