Three Tips on Injecting Insulin

Choose injection site reasonably

Commonly used site conclude abdomen (from the umbilical cord 5 cm outside the region), the lateral upper arm, hip and thigh. Different parts of the insulin absorption from fast to slow, followed by the abdomen, upper arm, thigh, buttocks. If the meal time in advance occasionally, you should choose the abdominal injection. On the contrary, you ought to select buttock. What’s more, Local motion can speed up the absorption of insulin. If you want do exercise, you shouldn’t inject in upper arm and thigh that accelerate the step of insulin absorption which can cause low blood sugar after exercise. Moreover, you might often change injection site and the distance between two injection site is above 2cm. You should not be repeated in the same part of the injection in order to minimize tissue damage, swelling and skin fat atrophy.

Grasp the method can reduce the injection pain

The temperature of insulin can’t be too low. If you inject low temperature insulin which take out from small refrigerators, it will cause pain when injecting. So before injecting, the insulin should put away in a moment. Only after alcohol volatile, should the insulin can be injected. If the alcohol used for skin disinfection can’t be dry, the alcohol will follow with needle enter into subcutaneous cause pain. Gently pinch the skin of the injection site with your hand, when you feel pain, you can inject. That not only convenient for injection, but also dispersion pain caused by needle. Faster needle injection. The slower the needle, the stronger the pain. Injection site muscle should be relaxed. Periodic replacement of needles. The pinhead of insulin noddle is very fine. But after repeated use, the needle becomes blunt or the inverted hook, causing injection pain.

Storage method of insulin

Insulin is a protein hormone. Too high and too low temperature are easy to make the degeneration of the failure. The most appropriate storage temperature of insulin is between 2 and 8 DEG C. Unsealed insulin in this environment can store 2 ~ 3 years. Therefore, the best placed that set unsealed insulin is cooler for insulin. Insulin at room temperature (20 degrees Celsius) can be preserved for 6 to 4 weeks.