What Size Needle For Vitamin B12 Injection

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Today I am going to teach you how to administer a Vitamin B12 shot either for yourself or
as a care giver who might be administering it to patient . First of all I'1000 going to go
through the supplies that you lot need . You need an alcohol swab or if you ' re at home and you lot
don 't accept any alcohol swabs you tin use your bottle of alcohol with a cotton wool ball . Yous
will need the syringe and you lot volition of course demand your Vitamin B12 that the physician chosen
in for y'all . The physician volition probably have called in your syringe with your needles also .
With my patient population I do prefer the smaller needle which is a 25 gauge , one inch
needle . And actually that is the size of the needle that they use to give yous your seasonal
influenza shot . So for all of you that have needle phobia it is OK to use a smaller needle . At
home I'k going to use my little skin pad just you can too practice on an orangish or any
kind of fruit . A lemon would work or fifty-fifty an apple . I like to apply the orange and the
lemons just because they are softer and it has more of a pare similar feeling . So what you ' ll
do is go ahead and only open your alcohol swab and become it ready or get your cotton ball
set . I'm going to go ahead and have out the syringe and all of the syringes that you
utilize will always have numbers on it and the most mutual doses of Vitamin B12 are what
we call 1 cc or one ml . At present according to your physician he may cull to give you a dissimilar
dose . On the 3 cc syringe information technology is numbered from a half cc to 3 ml or 3 cc . You will always focus
on the 1. And then you volition take of form your vial of Vitamin B12 and on your canteen
it will probably not say Vitamin B12 it will say a long difficult name and it 's chosen
Cyanocobalamin . So what we ' ll do is go ahead and prep the skin . So y'all can practice this
with your orange . And you lot go ahead and take your alcohol and you volition clean simply the surface
of the skin merely rub it a little chip . You lot might want to kind of fan information technology and allow information technology dry out
a little flake because sometimes when yous inject the needle into the skin it might cause a
piddling bit of a stinging or burning from the alcohol non from the medication . Y'all go ahead
and just pull the cap straight off of your needle and go alee and pull what we call
the plunger that 's this trivial thing sticking out here . And hold onto the barrel of the
syringe and you volition simply pull the plunger down to the number 1 . In that location is a little
black safe stopper in this syringe and it is sometimes kind of hard for you to see simply
you will really pull that remainder of the black stopper all of the mode down until you attain
the height of the line . In this one in that location is actually two layers of lines and you tin can measure
it by stopping at the top layer of the plunger not by the point of the plunger . So basically
you are going to describe in i cc of air into this syringe . And then you will have your bottle .
And when it 's brand new you will take a plastic cap on it which is a protective cap and yous
will but simply pull it off you will also take your booze and clean that off . Even
though the kickoff use it is clean underneath that plastic cap it 's OK merely to get in the
habit of cleaning the top of the stopper considering each time y'all give the injection you volition
need to clean it just likewise basically clean off whatever um . It 's really non a sterilization ,
alcohol is non a sterilization production but information technology will just clean off the surface of whatsoever
kind of dirt or anything that might have gotten on top off information technology . And then you will simply leave
it on a surface clean surface and a flat table or whatever you feel comfy with and
y'all will go ahead and just inject the needle in through the rubber stopper at the top of
the bottle and each time you practice this and the more shots you lot give y'all will actually
develop your own technique and so yous don 't take to exist verbal on what I'k showing you lot .
And it 's just whatsoever yous feel comfortable doing on how you need to concord your syringe
and how y'all need to hold your bottle and actually when you inject it into the somebody . And then ,
I'm going to hold the canteen and I'm merely going to accept my dominant hand , and of class
I'm left handed . And , I'm going to push the plunger down . And then basically I'm pushing the
air into the canteen . Then at present you lot ' re ready to withdraw the medication and you ' re going to
simply merely plough up the bottle upside downwardly , agree upwards your syringe and equally I said before
everybody is going to develop their own technique I actually simply grasp the syringe with my
pinky and quaternary digit and so I accept information technology held like this and I'k stabilizing it up hither .
And I'1000 going to pull this plunger back and I'thousand going to describe by the 1. And the reason
for that is only so you lot can actually , you ' re going to take an air chimera probably here
at the top of the syringe and and so you can draw more than you demand and then push it dorsum
up and by pushing that back up to the one you really push the air chimera out . And
in this one information technology is out and sometimes it 's real common that you will have still some air bubble
in it . If that happens y'all can actually take your finger and tap information technology or for me it 's easier
I can merely stabilize the bottle and stabilize the syringe and you can tap it on the side
of the table and that brings those bubbles to the top of the surface and gets rid of
them . And then now you are ready to simply pull the syringe straight back out . And so we ' ve got the
medicine drawn upwardly and now we ' re prepare to give the injection . And we ' ve already cleaned the
surface and then what I'm going to practice is I'm going to make a C with my thumb and index
finger and basically put information technology down on the peel and kind of just pull the peel taught and
you don 't necessarily , this is a muscle shot and so you don 't have to compression up on the skin
or anything . So I'm merely going to kind of pull it taught and and then I'1000 going to accept
this and you can hold information technology some people agree it like a sprint similar they ' re going to throw
a dart , yous tin hold information technology somehow like a pencil if yous ' re going to concord a pencil and write
so once more any you feel comfortable with . So as I'm going in I'm going to become straight
in basically at a 90 degree angle and I'm going to go ahead and merely button in and you lot ' re
going to go all the manner downward to the hub of the needle basically yous are going to embrace
up all the needle with the peel . And then here I actually accept this C and I caryatid my pinky
confronting the skin and I grab it with my thumb and index finger . That way it is stable and
y'all ' re not wobbling around as you ' re pushing downwardly into the medicine and you won 't hopefully
it won 't be painful for the patient if you do that . So ' I' ve got it stable here where
I'1000 not going to move the syringe just as I'm pushing the medicine in . And then and so I just
take this free mitt and I catch it hither and I push button the medicine into the skin . And you
don 't have to go real slow , and you lot don 't have to go real fast , if y'all simply go at a
gentle stride and then you basically are washed and you let go of the syringe at the surface of
the skin and you just pull straight back out , and you lot ' re done . You can really accept the
alcohol swab if you want and go ahead and massage that surface area . Information technology really helps the medicine
get more absorbed into the body . And if it 's bleeding yous might want to apply a band aid .
Some people don 't bleed , some people do bleed . A lot of people who are on claret thinners
might drain and probably practice demand a band aid . The most common surface area for a patient if they
are giving information technology to themselves would exist on the exterior of your thigh . On the lateral side
of your thigh . If you take your manus and you go from your knee up to your groin area and
you lot split that into three sections it 'due south going to be that middle 3rd section where you
tin get that shot to . After you complete the injection then you need to make certain you properly
dispose of the needle . And you can use many household items such every bit a milk carton with
a hat . Y'all can really employ a liquid detergent bottle that has a chapeau or you lot can also use
a coffee can with a lid . As long as they have lids and they are secure where people can 't
reach in and become them and or they tin can puncture through the surface of the container .