Contents:
- Medical Video: PCH Type 1 Children - Blood Sugar
- Insulin can save lives
- Stay calm and the pain will decrease
- Build his confidence
- Dispose of used needles safely
Medical Video: PCH Type 1 Children - Blood Sugar
Insulin injections and finger pricks to check blood sugar is indeed unpleasant, both if you accept or you do it to someone else.
You may feel scared, anxious, or feel guilty when injecting or checking your child's blood sugar. Your child will follow you, so stay calm and rest assured this will be better for you and your child.
Insulin can save lives
Don't think this is like stabbing and hurting your child, consider this as an effort to save his soul. Examination of blood sugar, insulin injections, infusions and other treatments maintain the health of your child. This is inviolable.
Remind yourself when your grandparents were young - before 1923 - this treatment did not yet exist for children with diabetes. Once found, families like you call insulin a medical miracle.
Stay calm and the pain will decrease
- Take a deep breath and slowly remove it
- Give your child foam bubbles to blow before and when injected to help him breathe deeply.
- Sing a song or tell a funny joke
- Play doctor. Let your child pretend to give an injection to the doll — or to you — first
- Talk about the best thing that happened that day
- Don't beat around the bush - faster to do better
- Kecup the part that will be injected before and after then hug your child
- Praise your child for his courage
Build his confidence
- Practice it. Your diabetes care team will help you practice preparing a place for injections and infusions, and checking blood sugar levels. Ask them if you can practice injecting yourself with saline (salt water). Don't practice with insulin.
- Know your choices. Ask your doctor about a short-needle insulin injection or insulin pen, and a blood sugar meter that isn't too painful. This is not too scary and painful for your child.
- Replace lancet regularly. The new lancet is not too painful compared to the blunt lancet. Use new ones in each procedure.
- Invite your child to participate in their care. If your child is small, let him pierce his own finger and countdown so he feels included. If your child is older, sit with him and help calm him. Watch it in a subtle way by calming it with touch or conversation as you watch it. Give positive advice and guidance to do it with minimal pain. When they are able to do it themselves, try not to watch it continuously.
Dispose of used needles safely
Collect used syringes in a container until you can safely dispose of them. You can also look for scissors that cut the needle from the injection and you can safely remove the rest.
Check the hazardous waste disposal policies in your area to find out the best ways to dispose of used needles.
