Re: [IP] Re: Changing Lancets
George, let me know when you run short on lancets, I have about 45 boxes.
don
----- Original Message -----
From: "george lovelace" <email @ redacted>
To: <email @ redacted>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Changing Lancets
> On 7/31/06, email @ redacted <email @ redacted> wrote:
>> Well, I can feel very good about myself that I am NOT contributing to
>> the
> > wealth of those making the big bucks from the lancets. There wasn't
> > anyone
> here
>> that replied they suffered from an infection from using a lancet for a
>> week,
>> a month or a year or longer. I was using 1 a day, maybe I'll try 1
>> every
>> other day.
>> suzeeq MM 515 4/2005
>
>
> OK, I HAVE had an infection from a lancet stick. More than likely it
> was from something on the skin rather than from anything left on the
> lancet, but what the heck, so I changed FIVE times that year (or was
> it 3, I think I forgot both DST changes) The infection cleared in a
> few days, no anti-biotics necessary. That did NOT alter my frequency
> of changes. When the lancet starts pulling the skin back due to the
> barb on the end of it, then I will change (or maybe I'll try
> sharpening it like we used to do with our needles) ;-)
>
> George
> .
.
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