infection pronenes, nurses & changing lancets frequency
Alison M - it's possible that you have been more prone to infections recently, when you probably had diabetes, but were undiagnosed and untreated, so your blood glucose levels were higher. As your treatment begins to work, you may well find that your blood glucose levels improve and infections become less frequent.
I think most people with diabetes use a new lancet each time, because that's how it's taught by nurses, who have to change lancets each time between patients. However, I suspect I'm not the only nurse who developed diabetes after working for several years, and I continue to change lancets when finger pricking anyone else, but only change my own lancets when I remember - at least 2 weeks between changes in UK, although I change a bit more frequently when in tropical regions, camping for days / weeks in temperate /arctic / subantarctic regions etc, when washing anyhting more than hands and groin in cold water isn't too popular!
I certainly did at first - you just do what the doctors and nurses tell you hehe. But when youve been testing and injecting for years you tend to get a bit more lazy! and it doesnt seem to do any harm.
