How to inject insulin

  1. Ensure hands and injection site are clean.
  2. Eject a tiny amount of insulin into the air to make sure the tip of the needle is filled with insulin (called an "air shot").
  3. Choose somewhere on your child’s body that has lots of fatty tissue – eg tops of thighs or the bottom.
  4. If you have been advised to, lift a fold of skin and insert the needle at a 90° angle. Be gentle – pinching too hard can make injections more painful. With some short needles you don’t need to pinch up. Check with your paediatric diabetes team.
  5. Put the needle in quickly.
  6. Inject the insulin and count to 10 before removing the needle.
  7. Never use a blunt needle and remember to use a new needle every time.

 


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