Do you take insulin injections in the right way?

?Do you take insulin injections in the right way

A recent study concluded that large that many people who inject themselves with insulin to control blood sugar performing this vital task incorrectly.

Based on the results of the study, experts formulated recommendations for people who use insulin starting with the type of needle through to the injection site.

Said Dr. Kenneth Strauss in an email: "It is supposed to insulin injections is simple does not require a lot of training, but this is not so."

He added that insulin users "may remain for years to inject without training or a simple training on the correct method."

He explained Strauss, a medical director of the company Ba.da medical technology in Europe, the study, which included 42 countries, showed that many patients inject incorrectly, resulting in a "worst control the level of glucose and worse outcomes and higher costs."

It was based on nearly 200 expert answers to the participants in the study to develop formal recommendations in this regard.

For example, experts recommend patients using the shortest possible needle to be "safe, effective and less painful." Available insulin injection pens needles length of 4 millimeters. The shorter the length of the needles syringes regular insulin is 6 millimeters.

Strauss said: "Using a shorter needle available patients can avoid injection into a muscle, which could lead to a (low blood sugar), which could result in a transfer to the emergency department at the hospital or cause an accident."

Experts also recommended ways to prevent be small bumps under the skin. These outcrops were formed when repeated injections in the same place, so that the patient should change the place from time to time, because the injections in those places backfire.

Regarding the use of a syringe more than once, the experts recommended using insulin injection pens and medical syringes only once.

They also recommended the need to train users of insulin on the proper way to dispose of needles, because handled incorrectly, may lead to infection.