How do I inject myself?

The injection is one of the fastest ways of getting medicine into the human body. In the treatment of bronchitis, pneumonia or various chronic diseases, daily injections are required, since it is necessary to deliver the drug to certain organs. And if you do not know how to do it in your family, you have to call a paid nurse or visit a polyclinic, which is very problematic if you feel unwell. Therefore, it is better to learn how to do them yourself.

Before you take a syringe and fill it with medicine, you should learn how to properly inject yourself into different places.

How to make an intramuscular injection?

The best thing for the intramuscular injection is the buttock. We type a medicine into the syringe, let out all the air and cover the needle with a cap. Then we proceed as follows:

1. We bend that leg, into the buttock of which we will prick, and transfer the center of gravity to the other, this is necessary in order for the muscle to relax and the needle has entered easier.
2. The chosen place is wiped with cotton wool soaked with alcohol.
3. We take a syringe and remove the cap from the needle.
4. We stick the needle perpendicularly into the muscle, we must drive it 2/3 of the entire length.
5. Slowly inject the medicine.
6. Sharply we take out a needle from a body and we press to the place of a prick an impregnated wool.

To the drug is well resolved, if the puncture is not bleeding, you have to walk or massage the buttock.

How to make an injection in the arm subcutaneously alone?

So:

1. We take a syringe with the smallest needle, for example, insulin.
2. We must check whether all air is released from it.
3. We disinfect the injection site, and then, at an angle of 45 °, insert a needle under the skin. The cut on the needle must necessarily look up.
4. We release the medicine and pull out the needle, holding the puncture site with cotton wool. Keep it should be 5 minutes.

How do I inject myself into my leg?

Prepare the injection (we collect the medicine, let out the air and close it). On the leg most often injections are made in the front of the thigh or in the back of the calf. To make an injection in the thigh, you should:

1. Sit and bend the knee in the knee, and in the caviar - put on a chair at an angle of 40-45 °.
2. In the disinfected place we stick on 2/3 of the length of the needle and introduce the medicine with the necessary speed (this should be indicated by the doctor).
3. Then pull out the needle and immediately crush it with cotton wool. Keep it required until the blood stops.

How do I inject myself intravenously?

This procedure is slightly more complicated:

1. Having prepared a syringe, we tighten it with a special strap or a tourniquet in place over the biceps. Having secured the tourniquet, we begin to work with a cam to make the veins swell.
2. Selecting the largest vein, grease it in the area of ​​the elbow with a disinfectant solution.
3. Remove the cap and stick the needle into the vein. You can determine this by the blood, which should get into the syringe, if it is slightly retracted. If there is no blood, then you need to pull out the needle and lead it again.
4. After they hit the vein, remove the constriction (tourniquet) and inject the necessary amount of the medicine. Cover the injection site with an alcohol swab and, holding it evenly, pull out the corner.
5. To avoid bruising and stopping blood , the arm should be bent at the elbow and held for 5 minutes.

If the injection is done incorrectly

The injections should be done very carefully, because you can damage your health:

1. With an intravenous injection, unreleased air can be fatal, and if you do it incorrectly, there will be a bruise that will go on and on for a long time.
2. The intramuscular injection can result in a hematoma or bruise, this occurs when tiny small blood vessels of the skin are torn. If you inject too quickly the medicine, it can dissolve badly and a lump will appear, which you will need to anoint with resorptive ointments or apply a compress, otherwise an abscess may develop.
3. Often an incorrect prick in the leg results in the formation of a seal at this point, on which warming compresses or iodine mesh should be applied.

But it is better to entrust injections to professional medical workers.