Everyone complaining about this being common sense, isn’t taking into consideration that there’s a bunch of fake microscope using TikTok pages putting out false content. I’ve seen where they “used a needle” then put it under a scope to see that it’s barbed/hooked. I feel like he was doing this to show what ACTUALLY happens.
@@Oneminmicro of course bud. We live in a weird world where uncreative people spread lies to their benefit without remorse. Keep being the best my friend!
@@Monkey_11 this is exactly right - I posted this video almost a year ago as this was when there was a surge of videos showing “hooked” and “barbed” needles after a single use - it’s just not true - sure they wear and tear, but the real danger is the contamination. The unfortunate/fortunate thing is that the algorithm pushed this content almost suddenly around December last year - well after the other videos had gained traction.
I am an ex addict of 8 years. I've used needles over and over. They do start to curl and barb on the edges as well as serious bacteria and diseases. I've lost alot of friends to Hep C. HiV and so many other infections and Overdoses. I cleaned mine but still got abcesses. It's just apart of that nasty life style. I'm so glad to be out of it.
The syringes get dull- they barb- and get contaminated by many ugly things. You can clean them- bleach is still the best way. Don't share- ever. But if you must reuse, clean them carefully !! The abscess you get shooting up can be from the needle- but in my experiences- it's usually from the dope/cut what ever. Skin popping is a sure way. I'm not strung out any more. After all the years of misery I'm still here- still living. So it is possible. Don't give up. It gets easier every day, I promise. One day you'll wake up and realize you need to find something to do. The chase has ended. God Bless!!🎅🎄🎁
@@DamnTheG Thank you! And quit smoking cigs! It wasn't easy but it was worth it! I wish more people were confident and believed in themselves to overcome hardships!
@@neurodivergentperson6554 yeah just that for an actual experiment you need to actually experiment.... not use a childs toy microscope.... even at that magnification after the orange skin you can see the damage... magnify it more and you can see a completely torn tip...
@@neurodivergentperson6554 yeah but this is a scientific experiment, considering it's about why you can't use medical equipment several times and using scientific (though not strong enough) equipment to test it. Yes, every food is not soup. But don't tell me that when I'm eating a bowl of beef and potato stew
cleaning a needle and making it sterile is incredibly easy.... after every use the needle is irrepably damaged and the tip is wrecked.... if you're using a actual microscope and not a childs toy you can see that
@@Mageman17 that's regular needles afaik, needles for insulin have to resist at least one perforation on the insulin flask before being used, thus they have to be made of better materials, which is also a reason why they're smaller than regular needles, that and they have to inject the insulin not too deep in your body
You'd be surprised how many people aren't aware of that information. I think it's great that he made that video. It might save lifes. If even one person didn't know this and watched his video, it's worth it!
@@Qim2609 the point of the video is to show why using single use needles multiple times is dangerous and the video fails at that. You'd expect him to show residue on the needle or needle damage as supporting evidence however he should us nothing. There's a comment from a previous drug addiction about the dangers of reusing needles but this wasn't included in the video... if not for this one comment the mood the the comment section would be entirely different
I've noticed this as a trend with this channel. I added him because he had cool closeup videos of things that were interesting, but his "fact" based stuff or "science" isn't there. Even his "myths" shorts are obviously busted just because *he* felt it wasn't backed up after a single test, instead of continuing to attempt replicating a positive. He's not very science driven. He seems like someone who is just fascinated by a microscope but sucks at actual research or scientific method. But man, some of his vids are pretty.
We live in a world of Marjorie Taylor Greene clones who think odor Molecules (2.5nm) and Viruses (100nm) are the same size. _They barely even believe in Bacteria! (1000nm)_
It didn't people can't think of original things anymore so they make a video on Whatever there's no creativity I remember when these kinds of people weren't in my feed and it was just nigahiga stick figures on crack today it's easy to shitpost and get likes entertainment side of social media is garbage I've gotten off Instagram because it's nothing bude half nude woman and simps all around and Instagram is like well slow nude woman but you can't talk about nude woman oh she's nude but she had a netting over it to obscure it absolutely retarded and stupid
No. You cannot. I wouldn't want to even if it was an option. Needles You typically get for injections do curl after use. Sometimes I've had them curl just after sticking the needle into the rubber top to pull the medication. I had one that caused my leg to spasm and it left a black knot for over a month. It hurt so bad I've been paranoid that it'll happen again.
Some people think that the reason you throw away needles is because the tip is so thin and fragile that it can become bent and gnarly after just a couple uses. So they might think that if the needle isnt bent/damaged its okay to use. I think he made this video to say even if it looks fine and seems completely undamaged even under a microscope, its still a bad idea to reuse it. Or if you find a needle and youre not sure if its been used or not, and you think "well ill just check the tip. Then ill know if its been used." But thats not necessarily the case. It might look fine and still be contaminated.
@@DaintyCalf how have you possibly misunderstood what this guy was saying. His point is exactly that! Why do we need to know what happens when it’s literally common knowledge. He might as well have made a video about why oranges are called oranges.
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as a fellow diabetic who has an insulin pump but has had to ration with old spare syringes (usually one box over a month or so), I can say that reused needles do in fact hurt, sometimes on the second jab, sometimes on the 5th, but once it hurts, it HURTS
What an insensitive comment. And 142 likes? Wtf is wrong with you people. I hope you get to watch someone you love suffer and wither away from something as debilitating as diabetes. Everyone is so clever. We reuse needles to ration supplies. You want to talk about common sense? Anyone over the age of 16 should know how expensive the supplies are. Arrogant child
Bro acts like this is common sense like it might be common sense but like people literally reuse needles they’re not trying to be safe they don’t care they just want there next high
@@kevincruise 🤣 please tell me you were being sarcastic, because i don't think even the guy that made the video is that stupid. He didn't say people "only" die when they are killed, he said people die "when" they are killed. To say that is not true is the same as saying that people do NOT die when killed.
Just remember, if you wanna be a tattoo artist and you get a kit with all the inks and needles. Change out the needles. I know someone who was practicing on an orange, when her partner asked for a small tat on his leg. She didn't change the needle and it burned like hell. Cross-contamination is no joke Thankfully no infection, just pain
I was an addict beginning with weed, then Acid and ecstasy progressing to speed. Later I moved to smoking Heroin, then after 2001 in Australia Heroin became hard to obtain and I started to inject! I had a job through all of this but drug's were ruining my whole life, so I got on Methadone and stopped using Heroin. I got my HSC and worked hard on my life, But the nightmare had only just begun because I started to smoke Meth/Ice after being drug free for 5yrs! My new life rapidly declined until I stopped using in 2009. I then cared for my terminally ill father while working, but the stress pushed me to breaking point and I relapsed in 2013. I smoked Meth again until 2016 when my father died in my arms, not long after I quit cold turkey in 2016! Not a day passes It's not a struggle. My mum had a stroke in 2017 and I now care for her full-time, I vow I will not go back to that hell! If telling my story helps anyone other than myself I'll be happy! To all reader's never give up because you're life is worth living, and you're family needs you! Take care and been safe
Thanx for sharing, friend. I'm currently using and the main thing that bothers me is I feel like it's keeping me away from Christ. I worry about all sorts of things, the state of the world being a large portion of it. I was saved while in prison many years ago. But started popping pain pills again three weeks after coming home. I know that I'm saved and so I'm going to Heaven, hopefully soon, but I can't help but keep reminding myself tht I must turn away from my sins. So the fact that I still use is concerning to me. On a really good note, I have gotten down to almost nothing and feel I'm not far from being clean. I just ask that my Christian brothers and sisters pray for me. Pray that the Holy Trinity doesn't give up on me and to make me strong so that I never take the mark or do any other such thing, The Lord doesn't want me to do, that I kick this habit soon. Even if I stand to lose my head like many of us will, no doubt, pray that I'm strong enough that I don't let Him down. He's all I fear. Anyways, thank you to those that will be kind in these comments and I pray for those that are about to be mean in response to my comment. May The Lord touch your heart before Death strikes the last breath from your body. Guys, everyone should check out this very well put together documentary that answers most of the questions that are bouncing around in your heads. You know something big is in the works...watch this documentary called Fall of the Cabal on bitchute.com. other platforms keep removing this video. It's such a great source of information. Information they want to keep hidden from us. Here's a link...www.bitchute.com/video/zte5MaTI46aF May God Bless all God fearing, Freedom Loving people of this whole planet.
My dog had type 1 diabetes I bought him quality syringes. It may look just fine, but they do get dull after just 1 use. They will not be as sharp and that will make giving the injection painful, unsafe, and potentially cause problems with delivering the medication. And yes, they become contaminated as well. Even if you wash them with bleach, you think its sterile and safe to use again, the needle will become more and more dull quickly. I know some pl who are on a tight budget and can’t afford enough syringes for a month. Insurance only covers 3 weeks, causing them to reuse and needles were dull, they wouldn’t go thru his skin enough, they lost medicine and sometimes they would get stuck and his wife would have to pull the syringe back out. I buy my neighbors extra boxes of syringes, so they have enough and extras. I had to tell them i get extra on my monthly order for my dog. But that’s healthcare in the United States. Very sad😢
I'm diabetic and I use syringes till the numbers are worn off the side lol. Probably shouldn't get any medical tips from me, but with a quick enough motion it will work without issue dozens of times, at least on human skin. I'll report back if I ever catch something deadly from it
If it’s says single use, that not only because it could curl or bend, but because the material itself is a more porous metal. That’s where the risk of contamination comes from!
See. I actually learned something from your comment. I never knew the material of the needle was porous. This dude's channel, on the other hand, is so useless.
The warning was in white text with read background, and when he audibly stated it, the perspective of the needle was of the entire needle including the back bit (the plunger?) and not the needle tip I believe it was sufficient enough warning, considering most videos don't include any whatsoever
@@85058Purple85058 yeah but when he said it the needle in it's entirety was already in full view, you're not going to say "spider warning" while showing someone a spider are you? If so I don't feel like you know how phobias work
Fresh needles are also lubricated and glide in the skin easier, once it's used one time it's pretty much gone. I'm an ex junkie so I unfortunately used to use lots of needles
Hey me too! Glad you're sober, it's a grate feeling waking up and not needing a fix right then. On to what I was going to say though, a needle will last a lot longer then you think it will. I've watched so many folks run the same rig for a week or more before they change to a new one.
Facts but i definitely used the same needle for a solid year just cleaned well and when my brother went to prison he said he used the same needle that sombody had for years before he got there an he used it for 3 years in prison shts crazy i swear ppl who do drugs iv some of em get powers an imagine how long they would have lived not using iv
@@AppalachianLumberjack that last part made my veins curl up like the feet on the wicked witch of the east after the ruby slippers were taken from her 😰😰
@@Quesoquantumwhat the fuck are you talking about bro, how there is risk of aids contamination... If he used the needle on himself, it means he had aids to begin with
@@hamsterking2187 he said 'tougher', he means potatoes skins are not as soft as orange skins. Also stretchier surfaces like skin would be harder to puncture, no? Either way needles can bend at the end and damage your health, use them once and once only.
Not only that but it also goes through muscle once it goes through your skin. This video is dumb as hell, the needle will not look like that if you used it on a real person.
Obviously, but you can see the slightest roll on the top of the needle at the end of the video which could give you an idea of what happens after real use I suppose
Penetrating skin itself causes the tip to bend making it rather blunt as well which is also why piercing needles are also a one time use. The more you use one the more dull it becomes which instead of penetrating will rip what ever surface you're trying to push through.
I’m a T1 diabetic, blunted needles are effing painful. Sometimes they get blunted in the manufacturing process or you accidentally blunt it yourself. Its not so much if it “looks” damaged, if the tip is blunted at all its painful.
@@fantasma7853 Fax i done this last night and I started bleeding before I even put it in half way and it hurt so fucking bad cause it was the wrong spot
Never has a TH-cam short disappointed me so much. I was ready to see an unsterile needle under the microscope, with all the bugs, critters and bacteria that make it unsterile, not simply a needle covered in orange and potato juice
In all seriousness, yeah trying to "sanitize" an already used needle isn't going to be efficient, especially for mass usage. Not to mention all the widely varying contaminants that may require different methods of disinfection, as well as the health risks that come with it.
Yeah, I had my OSHA certification when I was piercing. I can tell you that outside of autoclaving there's no way to sterilize something efficiently enough to make it safe for reuse other than that. But, needles for piercing are literally made to take a chunk of skin out. A very tiny Circle so that when you feed the jewelry through there's enough room for the jewelry to exist without displacing skin causing more pain and irritation. You cannot get that chunk of skin out of the inside of the needle. Also, with how absolutely positively dirt cheap piercing needles are when you buy them professionally. There's really no acceptable reason to ever reuse a needle. Also, even though it's not impossible to piercing individual with a sewing needle, I would highly recommend not to because almost every single time you do way more damage and possibly ruin the site you want to get pierced. The sewing needle isn't designed to take a certain amount of flesh out nor is the back of a sewing needle made to fit jewelry in to be fed through so you end up having to take the sewing needle out to try to get the jewelry in fast enough but fast enough doesn't exist because as soon as you pierce yourself with a sewing needle or something akin, your body naturally starts to swell as a physiological response making it so you can't push / guide the jewelry through and even if you do manage to, it is way more painful, takes way longer to heal, typically is crooked not because of scale but because the needle is trying to find its way through your tissue rather than make the room. So many factors go in but you end up getting a inadequate piercing. I do know this from personal experience because even though I was lucky enough to be born to a individual that owned a tattoo and piercing studio and I grew up with it quite literally with my whole entire life but before I got into piercing myself and apprenticing under two different piercers, I did peirce myself with a safety pin for my ears. HUGE mistake! I ended up wanting to gauge my ears and doing so but because I pierce my ears with a needle instead of a hollow tip piercing needle, the fistula I had created wasn't fit/correct for gauging and by the time I was an inch and a half I realized that my right earlobe was not in fact gauging but tearing straight down slowly as I was gauging. I can't wear gauges anymore because my right ear lobe is so thin. I didn't want to end up with little octopus tentacles like some people end up with. One day I hope to be lucky enough to afford the minor cosmetic surgery of removing the thinned earlobe and healing that to be able to try and attempt to gauge again properly.
@@dandromeda1 I started dating a certified phlebotomist during my last relapse & anytime I had trouble I would walk up to her with a pouty lip. It amazed me how quick she could hit me but had trouble hitting herself. Once everything turned to Fentanyl, I knew it was my time to retire again. I didn't get the euphoric feeling like heroin gave me.
@@Lucky_Male_Beebwhaha that’s ironic, I always had a HELLUVA time hitting myself! Even with new needles! It was so frustrating! But my fiancé was always good at it! I’m glad you decided to quit though dude. I’m proud of you! I lost my fiancé to fentanyl.. we had been together almost 10 years. Yeah we grew up in va and used to get great dope, when we went up to ny A LOT of it was fent. Just nasty shit really, I don’t understand why people want something that’ll only give you a high for like an hour when we were used to hours of feeling good. I’ve been on methadone for about 5 years now.
I literally just stepped on a syringe needle on a vacation in the sand and it barely poked me and my foot swell up I now have to get my blood drawn every couple of weeks for a year to make sure I don't have HIV or Hepatitis. People please throw your needles away in a safe place please.
Dang bruh, sorry to hear. But like, the kind of people who are using needles for the right sort of thing would never be on the beach. Only drug & heroin addicts are the types of people dropping needles on the beach… and I’m willing to bet they could not care less about others, let alone themselves 😶
I’m diabetic, and sometimes I had to reuse a syringe. I once used one like four times, making sure that I left enough insulin in the needle to flush it out. I did break out in a small rash but went away, still I try not to let it happen but can be short on funds sometimes , and it does get dull after second time, which hurts.
This is the main reason disposable needles were invented. It assures cleanliness and function. Also you don't want residual medicine building up in the syringe. Some meds are so potent a difference in dose of 0.25 cc can be deadly.
Have you forgotten that the internet is infested with brain rot misinformation? It’s important that this “common sense” that “everyone already knows” is shared so some dumbass who’s been told the wrong information knows better
This is the pinnacle of "I know the answer but this guy will make me pointlessly wander off from that answer only to give it to me later". These plot twist videos work when there's a larger issue after the initial one, and the needle being bent is a much more dramatic outcome than just not being sterile.
As a diabetic, sometimes you try to make your supplies last longer by risking injury and infection, which in turn can just make things worse. But when you can't afford more needles what's worse, risk or not being able to take your meds? It's hard when you're poor.
@@AE_CC_-Tutorials lmao fair. I think I ration even more now than when I first got my pump, cuz I know how to now (even though I can afford them at the moment lol).
i think infections from needles reused by one single person are extremely rare. i change my needles once a day and that's more than enough; used to only change them when i put a new vial of insulin in my pen but that gave me lumpy tissue
Hey all! Loving the comments and interactions - just kindly ask for respect and to also remember that there are sensitivities surrounding the subject - please give some thought to your comment before posting, as this video might help change someone’s life. It might seem like this should be common sense for the most part, but there have been incidents in the medical field where sterilisation and direction of single use syringes has not been followed. This is true for the beautiful Amy Pohl, who’s health care professional may have reused a syringe which changed Amy’s life forever. Moreover, the video is less than a minute and it probably is easier to just swipe to the next video if you don’t have anything kind or considerate to post. It’s free to be nice and a poorly thought comment that took a few seconds to post might last forever in someone’s mind. Thanks for considering! Big love, Walt
Thanks man. Even though I don't think I have that phobia, it's nice that you're being considerate to people who've experienced horrible things in the field with syringes and needles.
I've used hundreds of them and most I used more than once, sometimes I'd have to sharpen them on a mirror. It doesn't work great. But anyway I must have gotten lucky. And many others I knew.
@@CWHolleman Some people just wanna scroll through their shorts and not see something they aren't comfortable seeing. Like some people aren't comfortable seeing a sad little inconsiderate living pile of shit in the comments section of a video. Maybe consider putting "dipshit warning" in your username?
Neddle Warning: This comment contains the word "needle" and its derivatives no less than 4 times. If the very existence of needles requires you to be warned before hearing about or seeing needles, please seek immediate paychiatric assistance.
In Cuba back in the 80's, there were group of punk rockers that would purposely injecting themselves with AIDS. There's a guy named Los Frikis that did a Vice story on it.
I am a type 1 diabetic. The cost of insulin, syringes, CGMs, glucose monitors, lancets and strips is outrageously unaffordable. We don’t reuse syringes bc we lack common sense. We reuse them in order to ration supplies. I was diagnosed with diabetes at 23 and cancer at 28. I cannot afford food let alone extra syringes. 🙄
Wait, how much does a syringe cost in your the great murica 🤨. It costs less than a single piece of chewing gum in my country, or any other civilized country.
Ngl insulin syringes aren’t too expensive but what really burns a hole in your pockets is insulin pump supplies. It’s like $500 for the supplies and they only last like 2-3 months. Insulin is around $80 but dexcom supplies are hella expensive as well. The amount we have to spend as diabetics is crazy even with insurance.
He was just showing the needle under the microscope, sure he was also saying why it can only be used once but the title and the video was to show the needle under a microscope
I keep trying to find this version of it but I can't Cause this one is technically not the original, it's higher but at the same time it's not sped up lol idk
I just wanted to put this out here because I’ve seen a few people in the comments complaining about « fake » needle videos that show a single use and the needle is all bent and curled. Your skin - human skin - is a LOT thicker and tougher than either an orange peel or a potato. Think about it, you can use your fingernail to puncture into a potato with minimal effort. You can’t do that with your skin. I agree with this person that the main reason you shouldn’t reuse needles is because of cross contamination. However, as someone who gives myself bimonthly injections, needles do definitely get blunt after use. The nurse who trained me to self-inject showed me the difference between the single needle method and the double needle method. One you switch out the needle head before you inject and the other you don’t. You use the double needle method because the process of sticking the needle through the hard rubber of the sterile medication bottle blunts the needle a bit, and if you looked at it macroscopically you would in fact see a bend or a curl. My nurse demonstrated this in person by using the fingernail of his thumb to drag across the needle and catch the edge that was slightly bent, much like you might do with a roll in a knife blade. All this said, the single needle method is completely fine because that needle, while being slightly blunted, is still sterile, and so you can still safely inject with it, there might just be the slightest bit more resistance when you’re injecting. Just wanted to clear that up for all the people who thought that all the needle videos showing bent needles were fake. These tests were really insignificant. Potatoes and oranges are much much softer than human skin.
You fail to mention that the needle WILL become dull over time on top of the needle no longer being sterile. Someone using a used needle is likely using it more than twice. Diabetics used to have one needle they used for all of their insulin injections before this was recognized. My great grandfather’s is practically round at the end now 😅
Finally someone talking about the why I'm a doctor in my country and diabetics needles are used for days because of the cost i can't tell patients to use it once 6times a day
Our dear neighbour is diabetic, as was his Mum and sister. Thankfully, so far he has not needed needles, but he clearly remembers his Mum boiling her needles.
Type one here too… I don’t share my needles and reuse them constantly with no issue… do what you gotta do, and remember companies make more money off treating things, not curing it… one use needles sure are a profitable treatment, as long as the mass at large buys into it.
@@opticalmouse2hey thanks for the comment! Sorry you don’t have access to google - if or when you can access google, try searching and reading about Amy Pohl and her experience with a health care professional who re-used a needle.
I love when people with no background in medical care talk about shit like this. As a phlebotomist I assure you that the bevel curls frequently, so even if there were to be a proper sterilization technique they still would not be reused.
Needles like that are designed to be able to penetrate a few times without becoming dull, but this is NOT due to being able to be re-used: They should still be disposed of. The fact it remains sharp is in order to help reduce resource waste caused by human error. IE: You miss a vein, or otherwise don't quite hit your target, you have the misfortune of being able to try again with the same needle without risk of it being too damaged to function.
Absolutely correct. Speaking as someone familiar with intravenous drug use, though, it really doesn't take many uses before a 'spike' becomes barbed or blunted (if it doesn't first become clogged with congealed blood, skin cells, particulate matter from whatever was in the barrel/syringe, and so on.) Using barbed needles is one of the reasons addicts' veins get worn out so quickly. Another is the corrosive nature of the drugs injected, whether that is in the purely chemical sense, or at the biochemical level in the case of drugs like Xylozene; or the dilutantants (diluents?)/solvents used to prepare the drug for injection, like citric acid or even vinegar. Also there is the presence of solid or gel~like matter, usually as a result of cutting agents like milk sugar, talc, etc, but in many cases users will inject crushed - up tablets, or the contents of so~called 'egg' - type capsules which they have melted and liquified, but which typically re~solidify in the veins causing blockages which often necessitate amputations. Possibly worse again, even, in this regard are 'home brew' opiate drugs like concoctions derived from codeine linctus cough medication, or the notorious 'Krokodil', the principle ingredient of which is codeine tablets but which is chemically converted into desomorphine with the use of all sorts of 'under - the - sink' products, like, for one, lighter fuel. The addition of cigarette ash to the mix is also typically part of the process. Addicts _do_ try to filter out the worst of the 'crud', but a little balled - up piece of cotton wool or snipped off bit of (unused!) cigarette filter can only get you so far. And then, of course, you have the ever popular infection, which causes horrendous abcesses (and can go systemic and cause sepsis, a condition that can kill in a matter of hours! Not forgetting of course diseases caused by the sharing of injecting equipment, like HIV and Hepatitis.) So, we all know that junkies are determined to push your granny under a bus in the course of mugging her for her meagre pension; but does the above behaviour indicate stupidity - or desperation? I'll bow out here and leave "y'all" to discuss it amongst yourselves..! (Other than to say that harm reduction measures, like making clean needles and other injection equipment readily available to addicts has saved life and limb countless times, and as such given thousands of addicts the opportunity to clean up and turn their lives around.)
I would say creating a needel that would get dull after a few stabs into the flesh, would be extreamly harder to design than just a usual needel, of coarse it doesnt get dull from alittle bit skin and flesh, and i doubt that it doesnt get dull after a few stabs, because of human error of finding a veign with the first step, but because its stainless steel
@@IchDuForeverExploreringno it usually gets dull from rubbing the spoon or any other material other than human skin or tissue. But microscopically it does get dull no matter how easily it passes through human skin it just takes multiple punctures to actually notice it. I give myself testosterone shots every week and I can tell when a needle is even slightly dull at this point after doing it so many times
@@beasthunter7480 okay thank you didnt think of the spoonstir missuse, i understand, my point was it seemed to me that op impimented that needels aee designed to not get dull within the first few stabs, so human can make error and find the veign with multiple stabs, im sure you dont want to use a dull needel, and of coarse i would use a fresh needel everytime when useing it on my body
As a diabetic (even one who lives in a country with socialised medicine), the cost of needles can still be a lot. So while my insulin is often free (though no more than $5 NZD for 3 months supply), they do not cover the cost of needles for my insulin pen. They can cost up to $25 NZD for around 100 needles. I find after 3 uses they begin to sting, so will change them. So I get about 300 uses out of a pack. But for some on a fixed income, they don't have spare money for extra needles - even at such a small cost per year. I can't even imagine what it must cost in the medical hellscape that is the US.
Similar situation for me, insulin and other supplies are covered but needles are $45CAD for box of 100, which lasts almost a month (single use). At a point it got too expensive to use a new needle with each injection so I had to switch to using the same needle 2-3 times. Definitely felt unhygienic and uncomfortable to reuse needles but sometimes you have to do what you have to do and you get used to it.
My cat is a diabetic and I have to give him insulin every morning. My vet told me I could use the same syringe twice as long as I use alcohol to resanitise it which I do!
There’s actually new research on this. I work in animal research we had a research group that wanted to reuse needles. We have a rule that you aren’t allowed to reuse needles however the specific needles they where using where very expensive and hard to come by (this was at the height of Covid) so we did a test reused needles multiple times did cultures on each needle and took electron microscope pictures of the tip. We expected to have bacterial grown on the reused needle cultures and we expected the classic rolled dull edge like you see in the pictures everyone’s seen. In reality we had no growths in the cultures and the tips where almost entirely unchanged. This was completely contrary to what we expected and as a result now allow certain research groups to reuse needles up to 6 times.
@@shmelvampire I literally just said why. To show bacteria. The point of this vid is “hey, I got bacteria from an orange to a potato, imagine human skin to human skin.”
I saw a youtuber who had a doctor be lazy and use a needle on her that was already used on someone else and even after her dad kept telling the doctor that it wasn't sanitary and that it could possibly cause problems, and the doctor said it's fine and it's a low chance of anything happening. She no longer can have her wrist straight again, all because the doctor chose laziness over safety.
Im a retired Dentist……. Born in 1940….my mother was an R.N.who went thru nurses training in mid thirties. She told me that it was common practice to re-use stainless steel needles multiple times. A nurse who was skilled at re-sharpening the needles was highly regarded !! I started treating patients in 1964 and we always had packaged strike single use needles!
@@thatlittlemonstrosity I'm not saying it's not humanly POSSIBLE, just that it's uncommon and WAY less likely to pose a serious life threatening problem than a CONTAMINATED needle which is the obvious Numero Uno reason they're single use. Really makes me wonder if this video is just being ironic bc pretty much everyone knows the possible spread of disease is why we don't share needles or razors It's just silly :p
Actually yes lol when I was in active addiction and 1st getting into IV use that’s what I was told by quite a few people. “If you use it too much it’ll start ripping your skin up” and whew boy that was the truth. they never mentioned contamination being why but then again I’ve seen lightly used needles be sold for up to $5 before so getting hep c usually isn’t even on the mind of most addicts they know they already probably have it. It depends if you’re looking at it from a medical view or a street view what answer you get. This video is pointless as hell tho lmfao.
But you don't, you fall unconscious and start making checks to see if you stabilize or die. And a contaminated needle will be a disadvantage to those checks.
I make syringe assembly machines. Once it is used once the lube that is applied to the needle in the manufacturing process is gone. It is wiped off by the skin. Another use will be much more painful because the needle rub on the skin more. The lube is not noticeable by eye.
As someone who reused needles for my insulin for years because I was a broke college student who didn’t know any better, please shut up so people learn from my mistakes
My dog is diabetic and I use 32 gauge needles, if I need to poke him twice if he moves for example I can notice a difference in how he acts when I inject, also sometimes they will bend after injecting, my vet said I could use the same needle twice but after I quit doing that (did it at first after diagnosis) There is an obvious difference how he acts with being injected with his insulin. He is such a good boy taking his injections every 12 hours.
As a diabetic I have to say that of course that is one point, but the other is that if you only use this super sharp needle one more time I can tell you you definitely feel it while injecting. So it's not good to reuse them at all.
As a type 1 diabetic that hasn’t always had the most resources, I can say as long as you are clean with it, reusing needles has never caused me any harm. Sometime you do what you gotta do
There's a disability advocate who nearly died and has gotten life long deformities from a reused needle in the HOSPITAL. if a hospital can't safely use the same needle on you twice, you are guaranteed nothing. Just because it's not super common doesn't mean it's safe, do it at your own discretion but please do not promote it.
Reusing a needle or syringe puts patients in danger of contracting Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, and possibly HIV so thats why you better start remembering lol 😊
@@tgk3624 But makers of syringes and lancets do not recommend using them more than once. Talk with your doctor before reusing these items. Some people who have diabetes should not reuse their syringes or lancets, including people who have: Trouble seeing clearly.
@@dandromeda1 Syringes usually cost between $15 and $20 for a box of 100 so insted of risk buy some and If you are in a part of the world where needles are scarce and you have no choice, yes. But you should dip it in chlorine bleach and then rinse it thoroughly before each use. The issue isn't so much your own pathogens as those that may be in the environment where the needle was stored. Fresh, unused needles are shipped sterile in sealed containers and should always be used if available
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Everyone complaining about this being common sense, isn’t taking into consideration that there’s a bunch of fake microscope using TikTok pages putting out false content. I’ve seen where they “used a needle” then put it under a scope to see that it’s barbed/hooked. I feel like he was doing this to show what ACTUALLY happens.
Thank you so much!
@@Oneminmicro of course bud. We live in a weird world where uncreative people spread lies to their benefit without remorse. Keep being the best my friend!
@@Monkey_11 this is exactly right - I posted this video almost a year ago as this was when there was a surge of videos showing “hooked” and “barbed” needles after a single use - it’s just not true - sure they wear and tear, but the real danger is the contamination. The unfortunate/fortunate thing is that the algorithm pushed this content almost suddenly around December last year - well after the other videos had gained traction.
Yea
@@Oneminmicro Can't you just clean the contamination?
I am an ex addict of 8 years.
I've used needles over and over. They do start to curl and barb on the edges as well as serious bacteria and diseases.
I've lost alot of friends to Hep C. HiV and so many other infections and Overdoses. I cleaned mine but still got abcesses. It's just apart of that nasty life style. I'm so glad to be out of it.
The syringes get dull- they barb- and get contaminated by many ugly things. You can clean them- bleach is still the best way. Don't share- ever. But if you must reuse, clean them carefully !! The abscess you get shooting up can be from the needle- but in my experiences- it's usually from the dope/cut what ever. Skin popping is a sure way. I'm not strung out any more. After all the years of misery I'm still here- still living. So it is possible. Don't give up. It gets easier every day, I promise. One day you'll wake up and realize you need to find something to do. The chase has ended. God Bless!!🎅🎄🎁
you got rid of your addiction
Mad respect.
@@DamnTheG Thank you! And quit smoking cigs! It wasn't easy but it was worth it! I wish more people were confident and believed in themselves to overcome hardships!
@@DamnTheG She did not get rid of her addiction. She will always be addicted
@@peggyhall843 Yeah I know. I remeber all of it. Thank God its far gone from my life. I wish I could save others in that situation though!
Happy days!
I get the distinct feeling you wanted a different result lmao
Look carefully the needle does actually curl just not zoomed in enough but even a microscopic amount or curling can cause damage
it's called an experiment for a reason
@@neurodivergentperson6554 yeah just that for an actual experiment you need to actually experiment.... not use a childs toy microscope.... even at that magnification after the orange skin you can see the damage... magnify it more and you can see a completely torn tip...
@@LoFiAxolotl an experiment doesn't necessarily mean an actual scientific experiment.
@@neurodivergentperson6554 yeah but this is a scientific experiment, considering it's about why you can't use medical equipment several times and using scientific (though not strong enough) equipment to test it.
Yes, every food is not soup. But don't tell me that when I'm eating a bowl of beef and potato stew
“It’s unsanitary.” There you go bro I saved you some time
That and needles start to curl over time due to constant use, but when the needle isn't curling it is a contamination risk
cleaning a needle and making it sterile is incredibly easy.... after every use the needle is irrepably damaged and the tip is wrecked.... if you're using a actual microscope and not a childs toy you can see that
@@LoFiAxolotl I 100% agree with you.
I was your 1000th like
Lol huh???
You really needed a microscope to tell us that re-using needles isn't hygienic 😂
Worst of all doesn't show whatever grows on the needle 🥴
I thought the lesson was that syringe needles slightly warp/deform after the first use. I think I remembered seeing that way way back.
@@Mageman17 that's regular needles afaik, needles for insulin have to resist at least one perforation on the insulin flask before being used, thus they have to be made of better materials, which is also a reason why they're smaller than regular needles, that and they have to inject the insulin not too deep in your body
#microscope
Cause if he had just said it you'd have believed it like an idiot.
This is the kind of project you turn in when you started working on it ten minutes from the deadline lmao
You'd be surprised how many people aren't aware of that information.
I think it's great that he made that video. It might save lifes. If even one person didn't know this and watched his video, it's worth it!
@@jollyquinn430drugs addict for example
@@Qim2609 the point of the video is to show why using single use needles multiple times is dangerous and the video fails at that. You'd expect him to show residue on the needle or needle damage as supporting evidence however he should us nothing. There's a comment from a previous drug addiction about the dangers of reusing needles but this wasn't included in the video... if not for this one comment the mood the the comment section would be entirely different
😂😂That's the perfect way to describe it
I've noticed this as a trend with this channel. I added him because he had cool closeup videos of things that were interesting, but his "fact" based stuff or "science" isn't there. Even his "myths" shorts are obviously busted just because *he* felt it wasn't backed up after a single test, instead of continuing to attempt replicating a positive. He's not very science driven. He seems like someone who is just fascinated by a microscope but sucks at actual research or scientific method. But man, some of his vids are pretty.
My needles knowledge level stayed the same after the video..
Nurses actually used to sterilize and sharpen a needle between patients. Needles being single use in healthcare is relatively new
The syringe also curls on humans since we have tougher skin
Needless to say it then
@@rangokfunkazuul8344 that was the stupidest, funniest, and most amusing pun i have ever hear
My needle is at a top game right now
every 60 seconds in africa, a minute passes
And for every 60 minutes in Africa, an hour passes.
Now this is really serious, 60 seconds? Oh my
@@itsrasalhague and for every hour in africa, 24 hours pass for a full day
I pray for the Africans
@@kameeII don't think it's 24 anymore
If you ever feel useless, remember this video exists.
That was a good one
🤔 so I can feel useless while watching this video?
This comment is insane
If you feel useless remeber this comment exists
😂😂
When basic common sense needs explanation
Because people are stupid enough that this is required
@Pie Squared ok we won’t
@Pie SquaredI gotcha
@Pie Squared aight i wont
Math class when they want you to show or explain your answer
This video is the absolute pinnacle of "no shit sherlock"
Underrated comment🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂🐐
Why do you say that?
@@muppetman2914 everyone knows you shouldn't reuse needles. Did the police not come to your school and teach your class how to do heroin safely?
@@breadmonkeys when did I say you should reuse needles?
"Well, no shit."
- Literally everyone
i.....cant beleive that this even needs to be posted.
It didn't need to be lol
We live in a world of Marjorie Taylor Greene clones who think odor Molecules (2.5nm) and Viruses (100nm) are the same size. _They barely even believe in Bacteria! (1000nm)_
@@christianherrera4729 literally
Back in the day they would boil it and it worked great one day they changed it to plastics and they didn't work so well
It didn't people can't think of original things anymore so they make a video on Whatever there's no creativity I remember when these kinds of people weren't in my feed and it was just nigahiga stick figures on crack today it's easy to shitpost and get likes entertainment side of social media is garbage I've gotten off Instagram because it's nothing bude half nude woman and simps all around and Instagram is like well slow nude woman but you can't talk about nude woman oh she's nude but she had a netting over it to obscure it absolutely retarded and stupid
I thought I was gonna learn something
Apparently 1.7M clueless people who liked did lmao
@@raw_riot_6917 1 million out of the 47 million total views
when you rewrite the essay question for 9/10ths of the paper
Nice pfp
@@A_Foolish_person I like yours to
This used to be my profile picture like 10 years ago
@@botdetector9494 it's been mine for 10 years
"A needle shouldn't be used twice. Here's a video that doesn't show why."
Exactly.
Why can it not be cleaned with an alcohol or iodine treatment?
Alcohol or iodine mixed with blood or any cells in the body might not be good for us
Biohazard body fluids???
@@WhyRyeBread i do sterile work with syringes. I infact do reuse and disinfect needles. It's all about technique and understanding
No. You cannot. I wouldn't want to even if it was an option. Needles You typically get for injections do curl after use. Sometimes I've had them curl just after sticking the needle into the rubber top to pull the medication. I had one that caused my leg to spasm and it left a black knot for over a month. It hurt so bad I've been paranoid that it'll happen again.
I reckon if you run it through sterilization you might but any bacteria remains might still be left on the pores.
There has never been confusion over why you throw a needle away after use 😂💀
I don't think it's confusion over why, but instead what happens if you dont
Some people think that the reason you throw away needles is because the tip is so thin and fragile that it can become bent and gnarly after just a couple uses. So they might think that if the needle isnt bent/damaged its okay to use.
I think he made this video to say even if it looks fine and seems completely undamaged even under a microscope, its still a bad idea to reuse it. Or if you find a needle and youre not sure if its been used or not, and you think "well ill just check the tip. Then ill know if its been used." But thats not necessarily the case. It might look fine and still be contaminated.
@@DaintyCalf how have you possibly misunderstood what this guy was saying. His point is exactly that! Why do we need to know what happens when it’s literally common knowledge. He might as well have made a video about why oranges are called oranges.
99% of all informative videos are literally things no one asked for. This one is no different from the others.
@@kjb6637 😂😂😂👏
To those who thought they would learn something new! RIP
I learn something new from this video. I know already it spread diseases but I don't know how
I learned something new
Too bad the information is BS.
@@ArmaedusGaming No need to be mean. Some people just don't like seeing needles.
Fact
This cup contains all the water molecules that were poured inside.
If you ever feel you are useless, remember this video.
import brain
A=brain.commonsense()
If (A in @@yukierblx ):
print("Lol, does he?")
else:
print ("I knew it")
Output: Code broken at Line : 3 (reason : brain not found in 白雪姫 )
Thank you in advance from the next time I think of this
@@haloatelier5611 this is the best ratio ive ever seen
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@@haloatelier5611 brain not in Halo Atelier + ratio
As a diabetic who has to ration his supplies sometimes, I can safely say reused needles hurt.
as a fellow diabetic who has an insulin pump but has had to ration with old spare syringes (usually one box over a month or so), I can say that reused needles do in fact hurt, sometimes on the second jab, sometimes on the 5th, but once it hurts, it HURTS
@@feralbadgers yeah, it feels like that damn thing is red hot when it gets in there. have you ever had insulin burn really bad when you inject it too?
@@Gamehog4231 lantus burns like hell sometimes and feels like i got kicked by a horse on the injection site after. it's known for that.
Even my B-12 syringe if I draw up with that needle it hurts more than if I use a fresh one.
Same
When you need to make a science fair project at the last minute
😂🤣
When your last minute science project gets 40 M views.
@@Mr.Not_Surequantity does not equal quality
Glazing rn
Every single second of this short was utterly useless
Yeah. Video: Why you shouldn't reuse needles. It's no longer sterile.
Exactly what I was thinking. Why not show the bacteria on the needle if the point they're making us that it's no longer sterile? Cool pointless video.
"A needle should only be used once"
"Hay is for horses"
"A, is for the letter A,"
@@alexbowlin7044 water tastes like water
What an insensitive comment. And 142 likes? Wtf is wrong with you people. I hope you get to watch someone you love suffer and wither away from something as debilitating as diabetes. Everyone is so clever. We reuse needles to ration supplies. You want to talk about common sense? Anyone over the age of 16 should know how expensive the supplies are. Arrogant child
Enter: heroin users
Bro acts like this is common sense like it might be common sense but like people literally reuse needles they’re not trying to be safe they don’t care they just want there next high
"People die when they are killed"
1 minute is equal to 60 seconds
not all the time.. sometimes people die bcoz of natural causes..
@@kevincruise 🤣 please tell me you were being sarcastic, because i don't think even the guy that made the video is that stupid. He didn't say people "only" die when they are killed, he said people die "when" they are killed. To say that is not true is the same as saying that people do NOT die when killed.
Source?? I don’t know where you got this information from.
@@mingpingxie3563 I was killed once.
Just remember, if you wanna be a tattoo artist and you get a kit with all the inks and needles. Change out the needles. I know someone who was practicing on an orange, when her partner asked for a small tat on his leg. She didn't change the needle and it burned like hell. Cross-contamination is no joke
Thankfully no infection, just pain
Common sense is not a thing for that person right?,
Of course it burned. Orange is a citrus fruit and most of the citrus acid is in the skin.
good that he didn't thought of a lemon xD.
This would sting :)
@@rinapup9396 sadly common sense is not so common anymore
@@xyonpeculiar4301 nobody needed you to say that that was very obvious😅
A needle warni- AAHH OH GOD AHHH GO AWAY AAHH AAAAAAAHHHHHHH
Why are you scared of sharp objects pls explain did your mum die because she poked herself?
You’re a grown man, and you can’t even face a needle. I am staking my life savings on the fact that you have no girlfriend and have reddit installed
@@KINGoftheHuntersIt's called "joking"
This is why you should never share needles with a potato.
Facts XD
Or oranges
I was an addict beginning with weed, then Acid and ecstasy progressing to speed. Later I moved to smoking Heroin, then after 2001 in Australia Heroin became hard to obtain and I started to inject! I had a job through all of this but drug's were ruining my whole life, so I got on Methadone and stopped using Heroin. I got my HSC and worked hard on my life, But the nightmare had only just begun because I started to smoke Meth/Ice after being drug free for 5yrs! My new life rapidly declined until I stopped using in 2009. I then cared for my terminally ill father while working, but the stress pushed me to breaking point and I relapsed in 2013. I smoked Meth again until 2016 when my father died in my arms, not long after I quit cold turkey in 2016! Not a day passes It's not a struggle. My mum had a stroke in 2017 and I now care for her full-time, I vow I will not go back to that hell! If telling my story helps anyone other than myself I'll be happy! To all reader's never give up because you're life is worth living, and you're family needs you! Take care and been safe
Don't you miss the warm, safe and secure feeling of heroin. One more shot won't hurt
Yes. This is more useful than this video, anyway.
Thanx for sharing, friend. I'm currently using and the main thing that bothers me is I feel like it's keeping me away from Christ. I worry about all sorts of things, the state of the world being a large portion of it. I was saved while in prison many years ago. But started popping pain pills again three weeks after coming home. I know that I'm saved and so I'm going to Heaven, hopefully soon, but I can't help but keep reminding myself tht I must turn away from my sins. So the fact that I still use is concerning to me. On a really good note, I have gotten down to almost nothing and feel I'm not far from being clean. I just ask that my Christian brothers and sisters pray for me. Pray that the Holy Trinity doesn't give up on me and to make me strong so that I never take the mark or do any other such thing, The Lord doesn't want me to do, that I kick this habit soon. Even if I stand to lose my head like many of us will, no doubt, pray that I'm strong enough that I don't let Him down. He's all I fear. Anyways, thank you to those that will be kind in these comments and I pray for those that are about to be mean in response to my comment. May The Lord touch your heart before Death strikes the last breath from your body. Guys, everyone should check out this very well put together documentary that answers most of the questions that are bouncing around in your heads. You know something big is in the works...watch this documentary called Fall of the Cabal on bitchute.com. other platforms keep removing this video. It's such a great source of information. Information they want to keep hidden from us. Here's a link...www.bitchute.com/video/zte5MaTI46aF May God Bless all God fearing, Freedom Loving people of this whole planet.
*does random super zooms on the needle"
"The issue is that it's no longer sterile"
He was showing that it wasn't bent
@@teamrush7802 don’t get HIV bud, it doesn’t look fun
My dog had type 1 diabetes
I bought him quality syringes. It may look just fine, but they do get dull after just 1 use. They will not be as sharp and that will make giving the injection painful, unsafe, and potentially cause problems with delivering the medication. And yes, they become contaminated as well. Even if you wash them with bleach, you think its sterile and safe to use again, the needle will become more and more dull quickly.
I know some pl who are on a tight budget and can’t afford enough syringes for a month. Insurance only covers 3 weeks, causing them to reuse and needles were dull, they wouldn’t go thru his skin enough, they lost medicine and sometimes they would get stuck and his wife would have to pull the syringe back out.
I buy my neighbors extra boxes of syringes, so they have enough and extras. I had to tell them i get extra on my monthly order for my dog. But that’s healthcare in the United States. Very sad😢
Syringes for diabetes are 2.50 USD in Mexico for a pack of 5
Are they really that unaffordable in the US?
@@irvingchies1626monopolies :D
I'm diabetic and I use syringes till the numbers are worn off the side lol. Probably shouldn't get any medical tips from me, but with a quick enough motion it will work without issue dozens of times, at least on human skin.
I'll report back if I ever catch something deadly from it
If it’s says single use, that not only because it could curl or bend, but because the material itself is a more porous metal.
That’s where the risk of contamination comes from!
Can't you just soak it in alcohol? Or do they make them out of porous metal on purpose so people have to throw them away so they have to buy more?
See. I actually learned something from your comment. I never knew the material of the needle was porous. This dude's channel, on the other hand, is so useless.
The nurse trying to find my vein for the 4th time with the same needle:🗿
Edit: i don't think anyone needs to take this joke that seriously💀
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I like how you said a doctor and not a nurse 😆
I don't know what to call a male one 💀
@@tarannumzaidi2815 you call them nurse hha
@@tarannumzaidi2815 nurse?
"You can't re-use single use needles" ah yes, the floor is made out of floor
This is for addicts who use needles
hilarious and original
If you don't get why it's an important information, then the information wasn't meant for you.
Next you are gonna tell me water is wet! You silly!!!
@@tpg5974 and that fire burns
Bro just kept saying, "It's still sharp, but no longer clean now." in 3 different ways like OKAY, MAN I UNDERSTAND
*shows needle*
"This video contains a needle warning"
Really warned them there
The warning was in white text with read background, and when he audibly stated it, the perspective of the needle was of the entire needle including the back bit (the plunger?) and not the needle tip
I believe it was sufficient enough warning, considering most videos don't include any whatsoever
@@85058Purple85058good
I was about to ask what the fuck is a needle warning, but I guess that, is indeed a needle
@@85058Purple85058 yeah but when he said it the needle in it's entirety was already in full view, you're not going to say "spider warning" while showing someone a spider are you? If so I don't feel like you know how phobias work
@@xZyvonit says needle warning before he shown the needle 🤦♂️🤡
"I am not hungry, because I'm still full"
I am angry, however I’m not happy.
I'm about to fall asleep, I'm not entirety sure but I think I might be tired.
"People die when they are killed."
- Emiya Shirou
correct
Dude. Read the pinned comment. He's just telling idiots from TikTok to stop gaslighting people.
Bro earned a Don't recommend this channel
☠️
I disliked and trusting TH-cam 😂
For real. This is stupidest shit ever lol
Nah the channel is quite good actually, but I agree that this specific video is quite peculiar considering what I've watched on his channel tho.
why?
When you have done nothing in class projext but have to present the results
😂😂😂
Fresh needles are also lubricated and glide in the skin easier, once it's used one time it's pretty much gone. I'm an ex junkie so I unfortunately used to use lots of needles
Hey me too! Glad you're sober, it's a grate feeling waking up and not needing a fix right then. On to what I was going to say though, a needle will last a lot longer then you think it will. I've watched so many folks run the same rig for a week or more before they change to a new one.
Facts but i definitely used the same needle for a solid year just cleaned well and when my brother went to prison he said he used the same needle that sombody had for years before he got there an he used it for 3 years in prison shts crazy i swear ppl who do drugs iv some of em get powers an imagine how long they would have lived not using iv
@@AppalachianLumberjack that last part made my veins curl up like the feet on the wicked witch of the east after the ruby slippers were taken from her 😰😰
What are they lubricated with?
How come you can't sanitize them?
Nice to see a primary source
They should play this on loop at rehab centers.
Why?
@@matthewgartell6380druggies at rehab will often reuse needles for drugs, but they are very unsanitary and a large risk of contracting AIDS
@@Quesoquantum Woah
@@Quesoquantumwhat the fuck are you talking about bro, how there is risk of aids contamination... If he used the needle on himself, it means he had aids to begin with
@@Quesoquantumso they get aids from themselves?
Thank God for that needle warning, I woulda been quivering in my boots hadn't I been prepared to see such a scary piece of metal on a screen
loll
I cried my eyes out when I read this 😭 I didn't expect it at all
Med students put your syringes into sharps containers and lock them once full.
Orange and potato skin have nowhere near the same amount of elasticity as human skin
@@hamsterking2187 he said 'tougher', he means potatoes skins are not as soft as orange skins.
Also stretchier surfaces like skin would be harder to puncture, no?
Either way needles can bend at the end and damage your health, use them once and once only.
Not only that but it also goes through muscle once it goes through your skin. This video is dumb as hell, the needle will not look like that if you used it on a real person.
Obviously, but you can see the slightest roll on the top of the needle at the end of the video which could give you an idea of what happens after real use I suppose
That wasn’t the point, like at all
@@01SaltyWitch tell me then, what was a point?
Penetrating skin itself causes the tip to bend making it rather blunt as well which is also why piercing needles are also a one time use. The more you use one the more dull it becomes which instead of penetrating will rip what ever surface you're trying to push through.
THE MIKROORGANISMS WHO SURVIVE ARE THE PROBLEM! NOT THE CURVERD NEEDLE.
@@CHIPSPINNING911 yo you can't even spell microorganism. Sit down before you hurt yourself.
@@CHIPSPINNING911 Well, it's more painful to use when it's dull
Yeah dude, you don’t know pain until you get a needle shoved in your ass that’s been used for drawing the medicine. It’s like a fork.
You are only one with the right answer, the rest of people is 12 years old. Comparing a potato skin against human skin? 🥶
In todays episode of “duh!!!” : man finds out the reason needles aren’t used twice is because it’s unsanitary
When basic human needs are so expensive, sometimes you don't have a choice but to use a single use syringe until it's too blunt to pierce skin.
"This video contains a needle warning"
Looks out for needles along the way.
I’m a T1 diabetic, blunted needles are effing painful.
Sometimes they get blunted in the manufacturing process or you accidentally blunt it yourself.
Its not so much if it “looks” damaged, if the tip is blunted at all its painful.
Its even more painful when you inject on an area you shouldn’t have lol
@@fantasma7853 Fax i done this last night and I started bleeding before I even put it in half way and it hurt so fucking bad cause it was the wrong spot
@@somerandomguy1562 after bleeding it also forms this bubble or bruise 😂 someone thought I was really clumsy because of those small bruises lol
I'm a type 1 diabetic and I only use 1 needle per pen lol so about 10-20 uses per needle been doing this for years
@@jdt8601 same but it hurts less if you change needles half way through the pen.
Never has a TH-cam short disappointed me so much. I was ready to see an unsterile needle under the microscope, with all the bugs, critters and bacteria that make it unsterile, not simply a needle covered in orange and potato juice
You're the one who chose to watch it second after second. You disappointed yourself. Stop blaming anyone else.
@@doloreschansey9556 oh yes, excuse me for not knowing before hand a video I hadn't seen before was garbage
@@valalava1read the title
The title said this was ''insane'', should've said ''insanely boring''
@@Biologyman63
@@doloreschansey9556I too was under the impression it was going to show a deeper and closer look with some sort of high power microscope 🔬
"Just great now I have to go for my immunization thanks 💀"
As a retired piercer. I cannot tell you how many (probably at this point) days of my life I have spent trying to educate people on needle safety.
Shout out to the people who pierced people in high school bathrooms and got some nasty infections
Hehe "point"
In all seriousness, yeah trying to "sanitize" an already used needle isn't going to be efficient, especially for mass usage. Not to mention all the widely varying contaminants that may require different methods of disinfection, as well as the health risks that come with it.
@@valse6195 some people be nasty bro
Yeah, I had my OSHA certification when I was piercing. I can tell you that outside of autoclaving there's no way to sterilize something efficiently enough to make it safe for reuse other than that. But, needles for piercing are literally made to take a chunk of skin out. A very tiny Circle so that when you feed the jewelry through there's enough room for the jewelry to exist without displacing skin causing more pain and irritation. You cannot get that chunk of skin out of the inside of the needle. Also, with how absolutely positively dirt cheap piercing needles are when you buy them professionally. There's really no acceptable reason to ever reuse a needle. Also, even though it's not impossible to piercing individual with a sewing needle, I would highly recommend not to because almost every single time you do way more damage and possibly ruin the site you want to get pierced. The sewing needle isn't designed to take a certain amount of flesh out nor is the back of a sewing needle made to fit jewelry in to be fed through so you end up having to take the sewing needle out to try to get the jewelry in fast enough but fast enough doesn't exist because as soon as you pierce yourself with a sewing needle or something akin, your body naturally starts to swell as a physiological response making it so you can't push / guide the jewelry through and even if you do manage to, it is way more painful, takes way longer to heal, typically is crooked not because of scale but because the needle is trying to find its way through your tissue rather than make the room. So many factors go in but you end up getting a inadequate piercing. I do know this from personal experience because even though I was lucky enough to be born to a individual that owned a tattoo and piercing studio and I grew up with it quite literally with my whole entire life but before I got into piercing myself and apprenticing under two different piercers, I did peirce myself with a safety pin for my ears. HUGE mistake! I ended up wanting to gauge my ears and doing so but because I pierce my ears with a needle instead of a hollow tip piercing needle, the fistula I had created wasn't fit/correct for gauging and by the time I was an inch and a half I realized that my right earlobe was not in fact gauging but tearing straight down slowly as I was gauging. I can't wear gauges anymore because my right ear lobe is so thin. I didn't want to end up with little octopus tentacles like some people end up with. One day I hope to be lucky enough to afford the minor cosmetic surgery of removing the thinned earlobe and healing that to be able to try and attempt to gauge again properly.
As a recovering addict, having a used syringe with a barb or bent tip on it feels like pulling a fishing hook out of your skin.
I never had a problem pulling them out, but putting them in was another story lol.
@@dandromeda1 I started dating a certified phlebotomist during my last relapse & anytime I had trouble I would walk up to her with a pouty lip. It amazed me how quick she could hit me but had trouble hitting herself. Once everything turned to Fentanyl, I knew it was my time to retire again. I didn't get the euphoric feeling like heroin gave me.
@@Lucky_Male_Beebwhaha that’s ironic, I always had a HELLUVA time hitting myself! Even with new needles! It was so frustrating! But my fiancé was always good at it! I’m glad you decided to quit though dude. I’m proud of you! I lost my fiancé to fentanyl.. we had been together almost 10 years. Yeah we grew up in va and used to get great dope, when we went up to ny A LOT of it was fent. Just nasty shit really, I don’t understand why people want something that’ll only give you a high for like an hour when we were used to hours of feeling good. I’ve been on methadone for about 5 years now.
Pulling out is the hardest part 😔
I literally just stepped on a syringe needle on a vacation in the sand and it barely poked me and my foot swell up I now have to get my blood drawn every couple of weeks for a year to make sure I don't have HIV or Hepatitis. People please throw your needles away in a safe place please.
no
Welp you broke the seal, might as well do heroin now lol.
new fear
@@MultiPBStationArchive🗿
Dang bruh, sorry to hear.
But like, the kind of people who are using needles for the right sort of thing would never be on the beach.
Only drug & heroin addicts are the types of people dropping needles on the beach… and I’m willing to bet they could not care less about others, let alone themselves 😶
That information didn't require microscopic analysis 💀
Thanks, Mr. Obvious.
😂
I’m diabetic, and sometimes I had to reuse a syringe. I once used one like four times, making sure that I left enough insulin in the needle to flush it out. I did break out in a small rash but went away, still I try not to let it happen but can be short on funds sometimes , and it does get dull after second time, which hurts.
You ever try sharpening them on a matchbook or your hair? Used to shoot meth and people did this, don't really feel like it works
@@mywifebeatheroin sharpening a needle with hair?
@@theteddychannel8529 it a real thing!
Can't you clean them with alcohol? Idk, let ot soak in the alcohol for a few minutes before and after use
@@Loyannelima the big problem isn't that their dirty (though they are, it's just you can solve that more easily), it's that the points are bent
This is the main reason disposable needles were invented. It assures cleanliness and function. Also you don't want residual medicine building up in the syringe. Some meds are so potent a difference in dose of 0.25 cc can be deadly.
It's not about amount but about strength and ratio water : drug
this dude just showed how high quality the needle is and the most common knowledge. the fugg bro
Bro made a whole 60 second short explaining one of the main things everyone already knew about needles 💀….
Yea but a bunch of idiots on the internet keep saying they can be used multiple times since they don’t get bent
Have you forgotten that the internet is infested with brain rot misinformation? It’s important that this “common sense” that “everyone already knows” is shared so some dumbass who’s been told the wrong information knows better
NO SHIT SHERLOCK!
This is the pinnacle of "I know the answer but this guy will make me pointlessly wander off from that answer only to give it to me later".
These plot twist videos work when there's a larger issue after the initial one, and the needle being bent is a much more dramatic outcome than just not being sterile.
"also put on some dramatic music in the background"*
Sure, now look under an electron microscope. It’s a horror show
As a diabetic, sometimes you try to make your supplies last longer by risking injury and infection, which in turn can just make things worse. But when you can't afford more needles what's worse, risk or not being able to take your meds? It's hard when you're poor.
There are millionairs who use one needle for weeks😂
@@AE_CC_-Tutorials lmao fair. I think I ration even more now than when I first got my pump, cuz I know how to now (even though I can afford them at the moment lol).
i think infections from needles reused by one single person are extremely rare. i change my needles once a day and that's more than enough; used to only change them when i put a new vial of insulin in my pen but that gave me lumpy tissue
Why can needles not be sterilized after use?
I use mine for 3-4 days. Been doing that for years
Hey all! Loving the comments and interactions - just kindly ask for respect and to also remember that there are sensitivities surrounding the subject - please give some thought to your comment before posting, as this video might help change someone’s life. It might seem like this should be common sense for the most part, but there have been incidents in the medical field where sterilisation and direction of single use syringes has not been followed. This is true for the beautiful Amy Pohl, who’s health care professional may have reused a syringe which changed Amy’s life forever.
Moreover, the video is less than a minute and it probably is easier to just swipe to the next video if you don’t have anything kind or considerate to post. It’s free to be nice and a poorly thought comment that took a few seconds to post might last forever in someone’s mind. Thanks for considering! Big love, Walt
Thanks man. Even though I don't think I have that phobia, it's nice that you're being considerate to people who've experienced horrible things in the field with syringes and needles.
how the fuck did you just trigger needle phobia through a video. sent chills down my spine.
A needle warning? Lol..Christ.
I've used hundreds of them and most I used more than once, sometimes I'd have to sharpen them on a mirror. It doesn't work great. But anyway I must have gotten lucky. And many others I knew.
@@CWHolleman Some people just wanna scroll through their shorts and not see something they aren't comfortable seeing.
Like some people aren't comfortable seeing a sad little inconsiderate living pile of shit in the comments section of a video. Maybe consider putting "dipshit warning" in your username?
Neddle Warning: This comment contains the word "needle" and its derivatives no less than 4 times. If the very existence of needles requires you to be warned before hearing about or seeing needles, please seek immediate paychiatric assistance.
In Cuba back in the 80's, there were group of punk rockers that would purposely injecting themselves with AIDS. There's a guy named Los Frikis that did a Vice story on it.
I am a type 1 diabetic. The cost of insulin, syringes, CGMs, glucose monitors, lancets and strips is outrageously unaffordable. We don’t reuse syringes bc we lack common sense. We reuse them in order to ration supplies. I was diagnosed with diabetes at 23 and cancer at 28. I cannot afford food let alone extra syringes. 🙄
At this point you’d honestly be better off moving to the UK. You won’t have to pay even a cent for your meds anymore.
I'm sorry to hear that man. What's the cancer? And how are you doing at the moment? If you don't mind answering.
Wait, how much does a syringe cost in your the great murica 🤨. It costs less than a single piece of chewing gum in my country, or any other civilized country.
Thank joe Biden for that
Ngl insulin syringes aren’t too expensive but what really burns a hole in your pockets is insulin pump supplies. It’s like $500 for the supplies and they only last like 2-3 months. Insulin is around $80 but dexcom supplies are hella expensive as well. The amount we have to spend as diabetics is crazy even with insurance.
Somehow you managed to make a youtube short longer than it needed to be.
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He was just showing the needle under the microscope, sure he was also saying why it can only be used once but the title and the video was to show the needle under a microscope
Amen
You were the one who watched the whole thing.
And they still could not reproduce the effects of a 'damaged tip.' If anything, this video proves that needles can be reused if properly sterilized.
Gnossiène No.1 for anyone wondering what the music is
Thanks, i was just searching for this
THANK YOU!!!! ❤️💕💗
Thanks mate...!
Thank you very much 😊
I keep trying to find this version of it but I can't
Cause this one is technically not the original, it's higher but at the same time it's not sped up
lol idk
This video is equivalent to warming McDonald’s fries in the microwave
I just wanted to put this out here because I’ve seen a few people in the comments complaining about « fake » needle videos that show a single use and the needle is all bent and curled. Your skin - human skin - is a LOT thicker and tougher than either an orange peel or a potato. Think about it, you can use your fingernail to puncture into a potato with minimal effort. You can’t do that with your skin. I agree with this person that the main reason you shouldn’t reuse needles is because of cross contamination. However, as someone who gives myself bimonthly injections, needles do definitely get blunt after use. The nurse who trained me to self-inject showed me the difference between the single needle method and the double needle method. One you switch out the needle head before you inject and the other you don’t. You use the double needle method because the process of sticking the needle through the hard rubber of the sterile medication bottle blunts the needle a bit, and if you looked at it macroscopically you would in fact see a bend or a curl. My nurse demonstrated this in person by using the fingernail of his thumb to drag across the needle and catch the edge that was slightly bent, much like you might do with a roll in a knife blade. All this said, the single needle method is completely fine because that needle, while being slightly blunted, is still sterile, and so you can still safely inject with it, there might just be the slightest bit more resistance when you’re injecting. Just wanted to clear that up for all the people who thought that all the needle videos showing bent needles were fake. These tests were really insignificant. Potatoes and oranges are much much softer than human skin.
Thanks for pointing out the most obvious part of why you can only use a needle once.
You fail to mention that the needle WILL become dull over time on top of the needle no longer being sterile. Someone using a used needle is likely using it more than twice. Diabetics used to have one needle they used for all of their insulin injections before this was recognized. My great grandfather’s is practically round at the end now 😅
Song?
@@ThatWeirdboi1015.Erik Satie Gnossiene no 2 pretty sure, lovely piece, very melancholy
@@briannac3909this is Erik Satie Gnossienne no.1, not no.2 ❤
Your great grandfather's what is round now???
Was it the thing that he used for poking things? In other words, impregnate?
What has a dull needle got to do with being sterile or not?
WOW BRO THIS WAS FUCKING EYE OPENING. I NEVER EVEN CONSIDERED A USED SYRINGE WOULDN'T BE SANITARY. FUCKING GENIUS CONTENT.
Easy for everyone to tell people like me (a type 1 diabetic who takes 5-7 shots a day), to nut reuse needles. They don’t know how expensive they are😂
Finally someone talking about the why
I'm a doctor in my country and diabetics needles are used for days because of the cost i can't tell patients to use it once 6times a day
Our dear neighbour is diabetic, as was his Mum and sister. Thankfully, so far he has not needed needles, but he clearly remembers his Mum boiling her needles.
I am also diabetic and gladly live in a country the provides free needles and I still don't replace them every time. Never had an issue
Yeah everyone on this comment section is so acerbic, claiming its the most obvious thing whilst not considering shit like this
Type one here too… I don’t share my needles and reuse them constantly with no issue… do what you gotta do, and remember companies make more money off treating things, not curing it… one use needles sure are a profitable treatment, as long as the mass at large buys into it.
Me as a healthcare professional watching this with full knowledge of why and yet still went “ahhh” when the answer was revealed. 😂
Totally! have you heard about Amy Pohl?
@@Oneminmicro "Totally! have you heard about Amy Pohl?"
Bro, the fuck are you talking about?
Did you use the needle on yourself?
@@opticalmouse2hey thanks for the comment! Sorry you don’t have access to google - if or when you can access google, try searching and reading about Amy Pohl and her experience with a health care professional who re-used a needle.
@@Oneminmicro she has a TH-cam channel that shares her story
I love when people with no background in medical care talk about shit like this. As a phlebotomist I assure you that the bevel curls frequently, so even if there were to be a proper sterilization technique they still would not be reused.
Did he just say potato skin was tougher then a orange skin….😂😂😂
This is what happens .. If you have a microscope and ... Nothing to do
Needles like that are designed to be able to penetrate a few times without becoming dull, but this is NOT due to being able to be re-used: They should still be disposed of. The fact it remains sharp is in order to help reduce resource waste caused by human error. IE: You miss a vein, or otherwise don't quite hit your target, you have the misfortune of being able to try again with the same needle without risk of it being too damaged to function.
Underrated comment
Absolutely correct. Speaking as someone familiar with intravenous drug use, though, it really doesn't take many uses before a 'spike' becomes barbed or blunted (if it doesn't first become clogged with congealed blood, skin cells, particulate matter from whatever was in the barrel/syringe, and so on.) Using barbed needles is one of the reasons addicts' veins get worn out so quickly. Another is the corrosive nature of the drugs injected, whether that is in the purely chemical sense, or at the biochemical level in the case of drugs like Xylozene; or the dilutantants (diluents?)/solvents used to prepare the drug for injection, like citric acid or even vinegar. Also there is the presence of solid or gel~like matter, usually as a result of cutting agents like milk sugar, talc, etc, but in many cases users will inject crushed - up tablets, or the contents of so~called 'egg' - type capsules which they have melted and liquified, but which typically re~solidify in the veins causing blockages which often necessitate amputations. Possibly worse again, even, in this regard are 'home brew' opiate drugs like concoctions derived from codeine linctus cough medication, or the notorious 'Krokodil', the principle ingredient of which is codeine tablets but which is chemically converted into desomorphine with the use of all sorts of 'under - the - sink' products, like, for one, lighter fuel. The addition of cigarette ash to the mix is also typically part of the process. Addicts _do_ try to filter out the worst of the 'crud', but a little balled - up piece of cotton wool or snipped off bit of (unused!) cigarette filter can only get you so far. And then, of course, you have the ever popular infection, which causes horrendous abcesses (and can go systemic and cause sepsis, a condition that can kill in a matter of hours! Not forgetting of course diseases caused by the sharing of injecting equipment, like HIV and Hepatitis.)
So, we all know that junkies are determined to push your granny under a bus in the course of mugging her for her meagre pension; but does the above behaviour indicate stupidity - or desperation? I'll bow out here and leave "y'all" to discuss it amongst yourselves..! (Other than to say that harm reduction measures, like making clean needles and other injection equipment readily available to addicts has saved life and limb countless times, and as such given thousands of addicts the opportunity to clean up and turn their lives around.)
I would say creating a needel that would get dull after a few stabs into the flesh, would be extreamly harder to design than just a usual needel, of coarse it doesnt get dull from alittle bit skin and flesh, and i doubt that it doesnt get dull after a few stabs, because of human error of finding a veign with the first step, but because its stainless steel
@@IchDuForeverExploreringno it usually gets dull from rubbing the spoon or any other material other than human skin or tissue. But microscopically it does get dull no matter how easily it passes through human skin it just takes multiple punctures to actually notice it. I give myself testosterone shots every week and I can tell when a needle is even slightly dull at this point after doing it so many times
@@beasthunter7480 okay thank you didnt think of the spoonstir missuse, i understand, my point was it seemed to me that op impimented that needels aee designed to not get dull within the first few stabs, so human can make error and find the veign with multiple stabs, im sure you dont want to use a dull needel, and of coarse i would use a fresh needel everytime when useing it on my body
As a diabetic (even one who lives in a country with socialised medicine), the cost of needles can still be a lot. So while my insulin is often free (though no more than $5 NZD for 3 months supply), they do not cover the cost of needles for my insulin pen. They can cost up to $25 NZD for around 100 needles.
I find after 3 uses they begin to sting, so will change them. So I get about 300 uses out of a pack.
But for some on a fixed income, they don't have spare money for extra needles - even at such a small cost per year. I can't even imagine what it must cost in the medical hellscape that is the US.
Similar situation for me, insulin and other supplies are covered but needles are $45CAD for box of 100, which lasts almost a month (single use). At a point it got too expensive to use a new needle with each injection so I had to switch to using the same needle 2-3 times. Definitely felt unhygienic and uncomfortable to reuse needles but sometimes you have to do what you have to do and you get used to it.
As a diabetic who lives in California ... The cost of supplies are something to be considered. I also use my needles about 3 times before I change it.
My cat is a diabetic and I have to give him insulin every morning. My vet told me I could use the same syringe twice as long as I use alcohol to resanitise it which I do!
"Needle warning!" "Stop or I'll shoot!" lol
*shows a needle*
"Btw this video contains a needle warning"
The video had the needle warning written there before he showed the needle tho
@@Reneeeeeeeeeeee I was gonna comment that lol
Your the reason he has to say it aloud
if u need a needle warning that much u wont be able to live
What the heck is a needle warning anyway?
There’s actually new research on this. I work in animal research we had a research group that wanted to reuse needles. We have a rule that you aren’t allowed to reuse needles however the specific needles they where using where very expensive and hard to come by (this was at the height of Covid) so we did a test reused needles multiple times did cultures on each needle and took electron microscope pictures of the tip. We expected to have bacterial grown on the reused needle cultures and we expected the classic rolled dull edge like you see in the pictures everyone’s seen. In reality we had no growths in the cultures and the tips where almost entirely unchanged. This was completely contrary to what we expected and as a result now allow certain research groups to reuse needles up to 6 times.
wow!
Must be good material
but it's better safe then sorry
Maybe we can reuse them in covid like situation for a few times after proper clean up.
I love how you’re testing it on orange and potato skins, which literally can’t compare to the human skin
The point of the video is bacteria not how tough of a material the needle is going through 💀
@@Henny.777 then why is he doing this orange-potato demonstration in the first place?
Because he can't show it on human skkin
the orange and potato skin is a quite good example of the human skin, plus, he'd probably get demonotized for using real human skin
@@shmelvampire I literally just said why. To show bacteria. The point of this vid is “hey, I got bacteria from an orange to a potato, imagine human skin to human skin.”
I saw a youtuber who had a doctor be lazy and use a needle on her that was already used on someone else and even after her dad kept telling the doctor that it wasn't sanitary and that it could possibly cause problems, and the doctor said it's fine and it's a low chance of anything happening. She no longer can have her wrist straight again, all because the doctor chose laziness over safety.
Im a retired Dentist……. Born in 1940….my mother was an R.N.who went thru nurses training in mid thirties. She told me that it was common practice to re-use stainless steel needles multiple times. A nurse who was skilled at re-sharpening the needles was highly regarded !! I started treating patients in 1964 and we always had packaged strike single use needles!
Thanks for sharing! That’s really interesting! Appreciate this
... were... Were there ACTUALLY people who thought needles were single use because they CURL?! 😂
They do but mostly low quality or at a long streak. It is a problem but only for drug addicts or fake docotrs
@@thatlittlemonstrosity I'm not saying it's not humanly POSSIBLE, just that it's uncommon and WAY less likely to pose a serious life threatening problem than a CONTAMINATED needle which is the obvious Numero Uno reason they're single use.
Really makes me wonder if this video is just being ironic bc pretty much everyone knows the possible spread of disease is why we don't share needles or razors
It's just silly :p
Actually yes lol when I was in active addiction and 1st getting into IV use that’s what I was told by quite a few people. “If you use it too much it’ll start ripping your skin up” and whew boy that was the truth. they never mentioned contamination being why but then again I’ve seen lightly used needles be sold for up to $5 before so getting hep c usually isn’t even on the mind of most addicts they know they already probably have it. It depends if you’re looking at it from a medical view or a street view what answer you get. This video is pointless as hell tho lmfao.
That is the reason, If I use a needle 2 or 3 times I can feel that it is getting blunter and is harder to pierce the skin
@@thatlittlemonstrosity exactly. A problem for drug addict......
“you die if your health reaches 0”
"*So that's the kinda game you wanna play, huh..."
“*Then, I gotta warn you…*”
"*You're dealing with a couple of sharks.*"
"*UEE HEE HEE! SHARK-TO-SHARK! I WOULD'NT HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY!"
But you don't, you fall unconscious and start making checks to see if you stabilize or die. And a contaminated needle will be a disadvantage to those checks.
I've been using the same one for the last month. It's completely clear, all the markings have worn away. It's so luxurious when I get a new one
I make syringe assembly machines. Once it is used once the lube that is applied to the needle in the manufacturing process is gone. It is wiped off by the skin. Another use will be much more painful because the needle rub on the skin more. The lube is not noticeable by eye.
Local man discovers needle gets dirty when poked into things. More to come.
As someone who reused needles for my insulin for years because I was a broke college student who didn’t know any better, please shut up so people learn from my mistakes
@@Woahwhoisthis712local man discovers needle gets dirty when poked into things. More to come.
My dog is diabetic and I use 32 gauge needles, if I need to poke him twice if he moves for example I can notice a difference in how he acts when I inject, also sometimes they will bend after injecting, my vet said I could use the same needle twice but after I quit doing that (did it at first after diagnosis) There is an obvious difference how he acts with being injected with his insulin. He is such a good boy taking his injections every 12 hours.
Well well look at captain obvious here
As a diabetic I have to say that of course that is one point, but the other is that if you only use this super sharp needle one more time I can tell you you definitely feel it while injecting. So it's not good to reuse them at all.
As a type 1 diabetic that hasn’t always had the most resources, I can say as long as you are clean with it, reusing needles has never caused me any harm. Sometime you do what you gotta do
Right! I just passed 19 years since my diagnosis and never once have I had an issue with reusing needles or lancets.
For quite some time i have used one needle for a period of 40(ish) days( or unzil insulin pen ran out)...not recommended yeah, but im still here lol
@@iamd-1030 yea dont get me started on lancetes, i use them 2 a year lol
There's a disability advocate who nearly died and has gotten life long deformities from a reused needle in the HOSPITAL. if a hospital can't safely use the same needle on you twice, you are guaranteed nothing. Just because it's not super common doesn't mean it's safe, do it at your own discretion but please do not promote it.
@@licoriceveins9632 not true. source now or no one will believe you
I'm type 1 diabetic and I must admit I don't change my needle every use I know I should but sometimes I just forget.
Reusing a needle or syringe puts patients in danger of contracting Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, and possibly HIV so thats why you better start remembering lol 😊
@@TH.games.. That's only if you share them.
@@tgk3624 But makers of syringes and lancets do not recommend using them more than once. Talk with your doctor before reusing these items. Some people who have diabetes should not reuse their syringes or lancets, including people who have: Trouble seeing clearly.
@@TH.games.. No, it absolutely does not lol.
There is zero risk of that unless you share it.
@@dandromeda1 Syringes usually cost between $15 and $20 for a box of 100 so insted of risk buy some and If you are in a part of the world where needles are scarce and you have no choice, yes. But you should dip it in chlorine bleach and then rinse it thoroughly before each use. The issue isn't so much your own pathogens as those that may be in the environment where the needle was stored. Fresh, unused needles are shipped sterile in sealed containers and should always be used if available
The bloodborne illnesses in question: