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Suggest Solution For Accidental Pricking With Used Diabetics Injection

HI, I am a female,23 years of age,weight=45, i am tall in height & has no medical history, i accidently go pricked by my dads diabetic syringe(when i got prickd,a very small drop of blood came from my finger) which was empty but was used in the morning where Human Actrapid was used in the syringe...
kindly advice
thanks
posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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General & Family Physician,  's  Response

Hi,I had gone through your query and understand your concern.

Since diabetes is not a blood borne disease ,there is no chance of developing diabetes due to needle prick injury.So please do not worry about diabetes transmission.

Diabetes is hormonal disorder mediated by impaired insulin action.In case of type 2 diabetes,the probability of developing diabetes increases to those who have positive family history.

On the other hand,we should be careful when dealing with blood related events during injection,shaving etc because blood borne diseases like Hepatitis B,AIDS etc may transmit through this from affected person.

But you need not to worry because you were just pricked and bleed a bit.
So relax.

Hope this answers your query.If you have additional questions,please do not hesitate in writing us.

Take care.
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General Surgeon,  Dr. Dr. Ivan Romich's  Response
Hi and welcome to HCM.
if this was sterile needle then no treatment or diagnositcs is neccessary ,but if this was used needle and your dad has some infectious diseases then you should do testing to most common viral causative agenets such as hiv or hepatitis c and b.
Thanks for the query. Regards
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Suggest Solution For Accidental Pricking With Used Diabetics Injection

Hi,I had gone through your query and understand your concern. Since diabetes is not a blood borne disease ,there is no chance of developing diabetes due to needle prick injury.So please do not worry about diabetes transmission. Diabetes is hormonal disorder mediated by impaired insulin action.In case of type 2 diabetes,the probability of developing diabetes increases to those who have positive family history. On the other hand,we should be careful when dealing with blood related events during injection,shaving etc because blood borne diseases like Hepatitis B,AIDS etc may transmit through this from affected person. But you need not to worry because you were just pricked and bleed a bit. So relax. Hope this answers your query.If you have additional questions,please do not hesitate in writing us. Take care.