Putting Air in the syringe and into your vial.

[FartfulCodger]

Try drawing the last dose out of a 60mg vial without injecting air. Good luck with that.

Exactly. You've gotta see-saw that plunger to get out every last drop!

 

[minipepbeast]

I mean nurses are taught to pull air into the syringe on day 1 in nursing school.

 

[randompersonrandom]

This is one of dozens of reasons I went to pens really early on, and was glad my mom came to the same conclusion for her own stuff. No air, and no vacuum to fight.

 

[CandyCap]

To be or not to be. I read things every day that putting air in the syringe can contaminate the vial. I personally don’t do it. But I have a few friends that do. My philosophy is the more sterile the protocols used the better off your peps will be.

Bill

I only recon in front of my flow hood, so all air going into a vial is clean.
I use pens as well.

 

[BNLFL]

I will start Filtering My Peps though.

Yes. Me too.

Do it. I never did till I started 6 vials ago. It really doesn't take much longer.

 

[deluge]

I didn't used to inject air. And one some vials I would literally watch air bubbling in from a previous needle puncture as I was drawing out the next dose.

I now use pens, and inject air into the vial, then filter the 'tide into the cartridge, making the whole thing a non-issue.

Here's something that will really gross out germ-phobes. Guess how often on average a T1D change out the needles on their pens ?

I pointed this out a few weeks ago, in reference to that Fishermandude's post about never changing needles. I was talking to a 30+ yr nurse. NOBODY outside of the psycho-pep cult of doom is changing needles every shot on their own personal injections. According to her.

YMMV.