Hospital pin pricks
Can't even feel these guy's. Pink and purple for how hard of skin, purple for manly skin
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I do because they never use the side of the finger, and they never use ring or middle.
I've been teaching the nurses at my Endo office whenever they have to use one! ❤️
yes i just gave birth every nurse used my index finger , i was like as a diabetic the middle finger and ring finger is my fav
I just gave birth to my first, and I pretty much always used my own lancet when they needed a finger pick in the hospital for this exact reason. I did explain to the nurses the whole side of the finger thing — it was wild to me that they didn’t know this!
No fr. Why are you stabbing the middle of the top of my index finger
These aren't bad at all compared to most single use lancets
I had to do blood typing with an Eldon card for an assignment recently and thought to myself, I should go get my lancet from upstairs since I’m lucky to have access to one…. No, I’ll be lazy and just use the auto lancet included in the package (it was yellow and white). OMG that thing was a broadsword. It bled for an hour and you could see the puncture for over two weeks while it healed. It was so incredibly painful.
Many of the single-use lancets are optimized to get enough blood on the first try with >95% patients.
Meaning... they massively overdo it
I would hate to know the 5% of the population it didn’t work on. I’m pretty sure those people would never have consumed a drop of water in their entire existence.
I kinda feel bad that I use these on my brother when he’s in a low- he does say they hurt, but I gotta get that glucose reading fast and these do the trick nicely