Sticking Dirty Needle In New Vial?
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hijacked
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I can tell you this, it wasnt good. You never want to stick a used needle into a vial. We have organisms living on our skin called flora. They are there to protect our skin from infection etc. However, when you stick a needle in your skin, then stick it in a vial, you may end up putting flora in the oily solution. On the rare occasion that this happens, you will inject the flora into your muscle, which is not good. This will almost surely cause an infection. Depending on whats left in the vial, you can refilter it through a .22 micron whatman. Or just throw it away. Or i guess you could cross your fingers and hope for the best. Good luck. Lesson learned. I think we've all done it once.
aspirating is way different. your pulling air/blood/ nothing into the needle from your own body and putting it back in with nothing ever leaving the body. take a dirty needle that you stuck into you body it will have micro organisms and bacteria on it then stick it in a vial where might be some air and boom you got yourself a live culture going on, not smart. Equate it to pulling a sealed package of meet, take a pound out and let it sit for a day then put it back into the sealed package.
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Youngblood43
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They are correct. There is a sligt chance of infection. Either take a risk or throw it away. They BA should help I'm pretty sure so the chances of infection shouldn't be all that high but idk for sure.
