Improper syringe sterilization and storage can lead to severe local injection site reactions and scarring in patients requiring regular insulin injections.
Clinicians should review insulin storage in unexplained injection-site reactions; this single case leaves open broader prevalence and prevention strategies.
smaller swellings, which caused little pain and discharged purulent fluid; no further antibiotic treatment was given and all cultures were sterile.In December 1979 she ran out of surgical spirit and had to sterilise her syringe with boiling water.While reading the syringe instructions she noted that the manufacturers specifically advised the use of industrial methylated spirit for storage.She therefore changed her storage method and has had no further trouble at her current insulin injection sites on the abdomen.The swellings in her thighs, however, have continued to develop and discharge and she has many scars that are cosmetically disfiguring.
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