Safer injection guide: Difference between revisions

>David Hedlund
>David Hedlund
Eye drops '''with medications (e.g. the deliriant tropicamide only used for ocular administration) can be deadly when injected
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'''Sterile [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_for_injection water for injection]''' is used to create solutions that will be administered by injection. Water for injection is generally made by distillation or reverse osmosis.<ref>https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2016/018632s051lbl.pdf</ref><ref name=Gh2004>{{cite book|last1=Ghosh|first1=Tapash K.|last2=Jasti|first2=Bhaskara R.|title=Theory and Practice of Contemporary Pharmaceutics|date=2004|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9780203644478|page=396|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=whiC7aSFLY8C&pg=PA396|language=en|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116162803/https://books.google.ca/books?id=whiC7aSFLY8C&pg=PA396|archivedate=2017-01-16}}</ref>
'''Sterile [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_for_injection water for injection]''' is used to create solutions that will be administered by injection. Water for injection is generally made by distillation or reverse osmosis.<ref>https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2016/018632s051lbl.pdf</ref><ref name=Gh2004>{{cite book|last1=Ghosh|first1=Tapash K.|last2=Jasti|first2=Bhaskara R.|title=Theory and Practice of Contemporary Pharmaceutics|date=2004|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9780203644478|page=396|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=whiC7aSFLY8C&pg=PA396|language=en|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116162803/https://books.google.ca/books?id=whiC7aSFLY8C&pg=PA396|archivedate=2017-01-16}}</ref>


* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_drop Eye drops] '''with medications can be deadly when injected'''. However, syringe designed saline drops (e.g. Wallace Cameron Ultra Saline Minipod) are distributed in modern needle-exchange programmes as they can be used efficiently either by injection or ophthalmic (if the drug is potent in small doses) route of administer which is compared to intravenous use; by demonstration, the elimination of latanoprost acid from plasma is rapid (half-life 17 minutes) after either ophthalmic or intravenous administration.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.drugs.com/mmx/latanoprost.html|title=Latanoprost Drug Information, Professional|publisher=Drugs.com|access-date=18 September 2014}}</ref>
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_drop Eye drops]
** Eye drops '''with medications (e.g. the deliriant tropicamide only used for ocular administration) can be deadly when injected'''.
** Syringe designed saline drops (e.g. Wallace Cameron Ultra Saline Minipod) are distributed in modern needle-exchange programmes as they can be used efficiently either by injection or ophthalmic (if the drug is potent in small doses) route of administer which is compared to intravenous use; by demonstration, the elimination of latanoprost acid from plasma is rapid (half-life 17 minutes) after either ophthalmic or intravenous administration.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.drugs.com/mmx/latanoprost.html|title=Latanoprost Drug Information, Professional|publisher=Drugs.com|access-date=18 September 2014}}</ref>
* Distilled water should be avoided in large amounts directly into a vein, as it can cause your blood cells to become hypotonic, possibly leading to death.
* Distilled water should be avoided in large amounts directly into a vein, as it can cause your blood cells to become hypotonic, possibly leading to death.
* Hot tap water should always be avoided because it contains heavy metals.
* Hot tap water should always be avoided because it contains heavy metals.