How to make an injection in the thigh. How easy it is to inject yourself

How to inject into the thigh? Pain in any area or part of the body indicates that the body is unhealthy. Often pills and drugs replace injections, and often injections in the thigh. This is also due to the fact that injections do not enter the stomach and do not go through the digestive process, they cannot harm the liver and other organs, they do not form bumps and unpleasant pain.

Whatever the disease, pain in the body interferes with a full life and development.

Injections are prescribed to eliminate pain in the safest way for the body, and they need to be done in places where there are no large vessels and nerves, and the hips and buttocks are just such an area. Injections are made into the thigh only when, for health reasons or under the influence of other factors, it is not possible to inject into the buttock. The principle of execution is the same as in the buttock, but there are some differences. Intramuscular injection into the thigh is made only in the upper part.

As a rule, when a doctor prescribes an injection in the thigh, it is not one or two procedures, so many people do not have the opportunity to go to the clinic every time. It is much easier to learn how to inject into the thigh and buttocks yourself. There are a number of features that must be considered when conducting injections intramuscularly:

1. It is necessary to choose the right needle, that is, for example, in people of large build, the needle should be of the appropriate length.
2. It is imperative to monitor the sterility of cotton wool, bandage, needles and the cleanliness of the place where the injection will be given. This is especially important if injections are done at home.
3. Choose a place. In order to determine the place on the thigh, you need to attach two palms, put your thumbs. The point where they converge is the necessary place.
4. Correct location. It is necessary to choose the most comfortable position. Of course, the injection can be done while standing, but this is impractical.
5. It is necessary to ensure that the cotton balls are soaked in alcohol, and the medical preparation is disinfected.
6. Preparations for injection. You need to wash your hands well, take an ampoule with a medicine, thoroughly disinfect it, shake it hard, file it and break off the tip, after that the medicine is put into a syringe, the obligatory procedure is to push air out of the medical instrument.
7. The last stage is the injection. Before carrying out, it is necessary to relax the leg as much as possible. The insertion depth should be 1-2 cm. It is necessary to properly lubricate the injection site with alcohol, insert the needle into the muscle and, slowly, make an injection. The alcoholized cotton should be pressed to the injection site and the needle should be pulled out.

The subcutaneous method of administering drugs is used when slow absorption of the drug into the blood is necessary, while usually 1-2 ml of the drug is injected directly under the skin. Typically, subcutaneous injections are performed by inserting a needle at a 45° angle into a skin fold. It is imperative to pull the skin into a fold to separate the underlying muscles from the adipose tissue, especially in thin patients.

You can try to remember how the nurse did, and take note of the subtleties. In the conditions of modern Russian medicine, ordinary people more often have to self-medicate, since not everyone can afford high tariffs for quality medicine. Very often situations arise when a person has to do some procedures himself. I mean muscle injections. As a result, the question arises, how to make an injection with maximum benefit for yourself and at minimal cost?

If an intravenous injection is quite dangerous to do on your own, since a person can do much harm to himself, then intramuscular injections into the thigh are quite simple procedures and do not pose any difficulty. Despite the recommendations of doctors that self-medication is not worth it, there are often situations in which an injection saves a person's life before the ambulance arrives.

It is permissible to inject the following drugs into the thigh:

• insulin;
• painkillers;
• vitamins;
• antibiotics.

Since it is rather difficult to inject the buttocks on your own, it is easier to inject into the thigh.

Since stabbing while standing is dangerous because the muscles on the thigh can tighten and this can break the needle, it is better to stab while sitting or lying down.

Pain after injections

Unscrupulous and unskilled medical personnel or human irresponsibility can lead to complications even with the simplest injection. It is considered natural if, when injected into the thigh, the muscle aches for some time, but after a certain time this pain goes away on its own.

But if the wound hurts after the injection, then an infection has been introduced and infection has begun, and this can have quite serious consequences. Infection occurs when using dirty and non-sterile medical devices, including syringes and gloves, or if the person himself introduced the infection into the wound.

With inflammation of the injection site, the temperature rises, the condition worsens, the person experiences pain in the affected areas. If the pain is very strong, then the nerve is damaged. Nerves when injected into the buttocks are extremely rarely damaged, but if they are hurt, then you need to see a doctor for full medical therapy. The pain from such an injection does not go away for a long time.

Small bruises after the injection indicate that the vessel is damaged. They pass quickly, and the pain also disappears with the disappearance of bruises. But if the bruise is large, then you need to make an iodine grid. Such an injection can also become an abscess.

If bumps appear after the injection, it means that it was injected into adipose tissue. This is more common in overweight people.

hip joint

The hip joint takes on the most severe loads in the process of life, movement, in the movement of weights. Cutting in these joints leads to a decrease in the quality of life, poor mobility and discomfort. If the hip joint hurts after the injection, you should immediately consult a doctor who will conduct a full examination and find out what caused the pain.

Today's lesson will be devoted to how to properly inject yourself intramuscularly in the thigh. We already have material like, there is no difference between them. Any medicine is administered both in the thigh and in the buttock, each one chooses the method that will be more convenient for him. It is believed that if you make an injection with your own hands, then it is much more convenient in the thigh. Remember that you must have a special needle for intramuscular injections, its length is about 4 cm.

Procedure:

1. Wash your hands thoroughly.
2. We take an ampoule with the necessary remedy, shake it up so that the medicine is at the very bottom. Break off the tip of the ampoule.
3. We take the medicine from the ampoule (preferably with a separate needle).
4. Shake the syringe so that the air bubbles are at the top, then with a slight movement of the piston, remove them from the syringe.
5. We wipe the injection site with an alcohol solution. We remove the cap and install a new needle in the syringe.
6. We collect the skin into a fold and sharply insert the needle at an angle of 45-60 degrees, leaving its small tip outside, so that in which case it can be pulled out of the body without any problems.
7. With a smooth movement, we introduce the medicine onto the piston.
8. We remove the needle, wipe the injection site again with an alcohol solution.

Direction for intramuscular injection in the thigh:

Injecting intramuscularly into the thigh, as well as into the buttock, is best when lying on your back or sitting, stabbing while standing is highly discouraged, as some people have a reaction to the injection, an involuntary muscle contraction that can break the needle. It is better to pull the medicine out of the ampoule with the first movement of the piston, beginners usually pull the piston to check, and only then they start taking the liquid, in which case a lot of bubbles form, which we do not need. If you do intramuscular injections in the thigh every day, then change the leg each time, the injection site, do not get into the same place.

Video how to inject intramuscularly into the thigh to yourself:

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Often doctors replace taking pills with injections. The fact is that if you put injections, then the drug will give a stronger, faster, safer therapeutic effect. Medicines do not pass digestive system, therefore, do not harm the stomach, intestines, liver. That's just rarely the treatment costs one injection - more often you need to put a number of injections (from a couple of days to several months). Not everyone can afford to go to the clinic every time or hire a nurse. Sometimes you have to learn how to give injections - to a relative, friend, yourself. Now we will tell you how to properly, safely, painlessly inject into the thigh.

The injection must be done exclusively in the upper thigh.

Before giving an injection, prepare the place where the patient will be. Lay clean sheets. Keep away children and pets. Make sure there is no dust or food left around. The patient's clothing must be clean. Wash your hands thoroughly with antibacterial soap. Remove the syringe from the package, do not remove the needle cap yet. Prepare 5-6 cotton balls. Open a bottle of 70% alcohol.

As soon as the place for the procedure and the preparations are prepared, take the ampoule of the medical solution, open it, wipe the neck with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol. Remove the cap from the syringe, draw up the medicine. Close the needle again with the tip.
If used not ready medicinal product, and the powder, then it must first be diluted with saline. Pierce the ampoule of the solution, dial the required amount (as indicated by the instructions for the preparation), inject the liquid into the flask with the powder, shake. Attention: you can not use one needle for a set of saline and the introduction of the finished drug.

Stage two: determine where to inject

The site where you need to inject is determined as follows: plant a person (or sit yourself if you are injecting yourself). The side of the thigh, flattened in this position, will be the desired area (mentally divide it into three parts - you need the top one). Remember the location.

Why is it necessary to inject here? There is a minimum number of nerve endings here, there are no large arteries. It is safe to stab into this square - the risk of breaking the needle on the bone is minimal. It is safe to make an injection in the lateral upper thigh area for the reason that you will not touch the area of ​​​​the sciatic nerve, which is extremely painful to hit. Do not inject into the back of the thigh below the buttocks.

Before inserting a needle, it is necessary to treat the desired area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe body with alcohol.

Step three: insert the needle

The patient should be in a comfortable position. Do the injection while standing with a bent leg (45 degree angle) or lying on your back (this position is preferable - it is more relaxed). Wipe the area 10 × 10 cm with alcohol applied to the cotton wool. Then moisten another cotton wool, treat a smaller square of skin (about 5 × 5 cm) - it is in this area that you need to prick.
Begin to gently insert the needle into the alcohol-treated thigh area - 1-2 cm into the muscle. It is recommended to check if the needle has entered the lumen of the vessel. To do this, without removing the syringe, pull the piston towards you a few millimeters (make sure that it does not pop out). If there is no blood in the syringe, then everything is fine. Enter the drug. Press the plunger of the syringe, inject the medical solution. That's it, now take out the needle. Immediately apply a clean cotton swab with alcohol to the injection site. Keep the cotton on for 2-3 minutes. At the end of the procedure, throw the used syringe with an empty ampoule into the wastebasket. Make sure they are out of reach of small children.

To make the injection as safe as possible, quickly, painlessly, follow the following tips:

• Before injecting, pat your skin a couple of times to disperse the blood.
• Do not inject in the same place - it is better to alternate hips.
• People with a very thin physique need to collect the skin in a fold and inject into it (so as not to hit the bone).
• Make sure that the person who is given the injection does not strain the thigh muscles, otherwise the procedure will be uncomfortable.
• It is desirable to use syringes with a dark rubber plunger - the introduction of the drug will be slow and painless.
• The needle should be as thin as possible (for two-cube syringes it is thinner than for five-cube ones).

Follow all the tips described in the article, and you can easily make an intramuscular injection into the femoral part of the body. There is nothing complicated in injections into the thigh area. With a little practice, you'll be giving injections like a trained nurse.

Hello dear friends and dear readers of the blog!
Today we will learn how to make intramuscular injections with you. Usually, at a doctor's appointment, a person receives a whole range of medical prescriptions, among which injections are very often present. The question arises - where to make them? Go to the clinic every day, and even stand in line? What kind of treatment is this, one maeta! Or invite a nurse to the house - such treatment will be expensive.

So it turns out that in all respects, learning to give injections yourself is the best way out. And save time and money! It's good when someone from the family has this skill. Otherwise, treatment will turn into a very big problem.

How to properly make an intramuscular injection to yourself is a task available to every person. You need to overcome a slight fear and insecurity, carefully read the instructions, practice, for example, on a soft pillow, and get down to business. Prepare carefully so as not to cause yourself unnecessary pain. I am sure that you will succeed. But let's finally get down to learning.

What do we need for injections?

1. Disposable syringe;
2. ampoule with medicine;
3. medical alcohol;
4. clean cotton wool or sterile alcoholized gauze wipes from a pharmacy;
5. rubber disposable medical gloves. Basically, if you wash your hands with soap, that will be enough.
6. a clean place on the table and a clean tray where the tools will be.

Instructions for setting up an intramuscular injection

First you need to decide the question - where on the body is best to inject: in the buttock or thigh muscles. Everyone has their own preferences. It is easier for someone to get an injection in the buttock. And someone adapted to put an injection in the thigh muscle.

How to choose the right injection point in the buttock? You need to mentally divide it into 4 equal parts. The needle should be inserted in the middle of the outer upper quadrant. Then the needle is guaranteed not to hit the bone, nerve or large vessel.

To make an injection in the femoral region, also mentally divide the anterior-outer surface of the thigh into the upper, middle and lower parts, starting from the inguinal fold to the knee. Make an injection in the middle third of the thigh.

How to prepare an injection syringe

Take a disposable syringe, remove the plastic wrap and place it on a clean tray for now. Choose a larger syringe volume than the amount of medication. For example, in an ampoule 2 ml of solution. Take a syringe for 3 or 5 ml.

Open the medicine vial. A nail file is included with each package. Carefully make an inscription on the glass, stepping back from the narrow tip of the ampoule by about 1 cm. On modern ampoules, the place of the inscription is now marked with a white or red dot. After filing with a piece of cotton, wrap the end of the ampoule and break it off.

Carefully place the opened ampoule on the table. Now remove the cap from the needle on the syringe. Lower it to the bottom into the ampoule and pull the piston so that the medicine completely passes into the syringe. After that, hold the syringe vertically with the needle up. You will see that air has accumulated above the medicinal liquid. By pressing the plunger, release all the air and a few drops of medicine. It is absolutely impossible to inject with a syringe in which air remains.

Put the prepared syringe on the table so that the needle does not touch any objects! Better put a cap on it.

HOW TO MAKE AN INTRAMUSCULAR INJECTION IN THE BUTTOCKS

Stand in front of a mirror, turn sideways so that you can see your buttocks. Bare the area you want. Transfer the body support to the left leg, if you intend to put an injection on the right. The right side of the body needs to be relaxed.

With a cotton swab with alcohol, wipe the middle of the upper outer quadrant of the right buttock. Take the syringe in your right hand, bring it to the buttock. Hold the point of the needle vertical to the buttock at a slight distance from the surface of the skin. Successfully you make an injection or you will be hurt and unpleasant depends only on your determination. Calmly and quickly pierce the thickness of the muscle with a needle and insert the needle so that a needle section of about 1 cm remains above the skin. This will protect you - the hand may twitch and the needle break, so there should be a tip above the skin surface for which you pull the needle.

I can reassure you that I have never encountered such a problem in my life, although I have been working as a doctor for many years. I'm sure you can handle at its best. Now press the plunger all the way down and slowly inject the medicine. With a quick movement, remove the needle and press a cotton swab with alcohol to the injection site. Hold until the bleeding stops. In order for the medicine to dissolve well and seals do not form, not only press, but also rotate, crush, move your finger from side to side.

Watch this video of a young man trying to inject himself into his buttocks. He does everything right, except for one thing - a little cowardly! Usually, over time, the fear subsides and confidence emerges. But I specifically took a non-pro for the show, so that you can see that the procedure is available to everyone. And who else noticed the little flaws in the actions of the guy? Write in the comments

HOW TO MAKE AN INJECTION INTO THE FEMORAL REGION

Indeed, some people prefer to inject themselves in the thigh, and not in the buttock. Please choose what you like best. Sit on a chair, expose your thigh, select the desired area and the approximate point where you will insert the needle. Next, proceed in exactly the same way as when injecting into the buttock. Watch this video, it will be clearer.

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There are many drugs that, when administered subcutaneously, provoke the occurrence of pain and bumps. Therefore, the doctor recommends that such funds be administered as an injection in the thigh or in another part of the body. Through the muscles, the drug is quickly and completely absorbed into the body.

Features of intramuscular injections

Intramuscular injections need to be placed in certain places of the body. Namely, where the muscle tissue does not have large vessels and nerve trunks. The thickness of the subcutaneous fat layer affects the length of the needle. It is important that during the injection, the needle passes through the subcutaneous tissue and penetrates into the thickness of the muscles. If the subcutaneous fat layer is very large, you need to take a 60 mm needle, and if it is moderate, 40 mm. Intramuscular injections can be done in the gluteal, shoulder and femoral muscles.

Injection into the muscle: what?

It is known that the most common injections in medicine are intramuscular.
It is the muscles that are the first to expose themselves to an injection if necessary, the main thing is to know which part of the muscle to choose - so that the injection does not hurt so much, and complications are more likely to be avoided.

And if of all types of injections, intramuscular injections are the most common, then of the muscles the most important for an injection is the gluteus.

If in this case the doctor prescribes a course of intramuscular injections (as experts call injections), then, of course, constantly going to the hospital or to the nurse is not the best option. Learning how to give injections on your own is perhaps the best solution in such a situation, so you will save not only your time, but also money.

At first glance, it may seem that such a procedure is quite complicated, which not everyone can master, but, in fact, everything is real. The main thing is to familiarize yourself with all the rules of the procedure in sufficient detail, since the consequences of an incorrectly delivered injection can be the most unpleasant, and sometimes even threatening to health.

How to inject yourself correctly?

The most painless type of injection, but there are volume restrictions - up to 2 ml. Someone inexperienced thinks that given type injections for slow absorption of the drug into the body. But few people know (doctors do not count) that the subcutaneous fat layer has wonderfully branched vessels, and such injections are made just for a quick effect on the body. And insulin injections done in this way - the best of that confirmation.

There are several parts of the body where such injections are preferable:
Part of the leg from hip to knee. Very convenient place for self-injection;
The outer part of the arm from the shoulder to the elbow is where many of us have traces of vaccinations since childhood;
Under the shoulder blade. Also to everyone famous place on vaccination;
Under the mouse More precisely, in its lower part;
Belly area. For most of us, injections in the stomach are associated with painful rabies injections, which needed to be done ten times. But this has nothing to do with small and painless injections under the skin.

How to give an injection to a cat in the withers

1. As with other types of injections, it is necessary to observe general rules which are listed above. When you have prepared the medicine in the syringe, you should prepare the cat: distract and fix it. If you do the injection yourself and the cat’s behavior is calm, then lightly press the pet with your left forearm, and with the fingers of your left hand you need to form a fold at the site of the subcutaneous injection - we take the skin at the withers or knee and pull it up.
2. We take a syringe in the right hand and make a puncture at the base of the fold. If a subcutaneous injection is given with an insulin syringe, then almost the entire needle is inserted, and if with another syringe, then the needle is inserted 1-2 cm deep. The needle should be inserted parallel to the spine at an angle of 45 degrees.
3. At first you will feel resistance, but as soon as the needle is under the skin, so to speak, "fail", the resistance will disappear. Now you can administer the medicine without any additional effort, you should not rush.
4. After the injection of the medicine, without releasing the skin, carefully remove the needle. Pet the cat, speak softly, gently and soothingly.
5. Be careful when introducing the medicine, for example, if the hair on the skin becomes wet, when you insert the needle you do not meet resistance, then this indicates that you have pierced through the fold of the skin, and the medicine has not got to the right place.

An injection into a vein, unlike intramuscular or subcutaneous, essentially consists of two actions. First you pierce the skin, then you pierce the vein. Experienced people - nurses - do these two operations in one go. It is not at all a fact that you will also be able to do it right away. So you can be mentally prepared for the fact that you first prick in your hand, and only then you feel for a vein there and pierce it. In the process of injection, the syringe should be placed with the cut up. After the tourniquet has been pricked, it must be removed, the fist should be relaxed.

You can make sure that you hit the vein by trying to take some blood out of it (with a syringe, or simply by releasing blood). If it goes easily and simply - you are in a vein. If not, then you missed and you need to prick again. Again, if you are not in a vein, then when you try to inject the medicine, the “bump” will begin to inflate. So all operations should be carried out in good light so that any changes are immediately noticeable. As my experience has shown, if something didn’t work out the first time (and it won’t work out), then you just need to change your hand / vein and try again. It is clear that without apprenticeship there will be no mastery.

Still for beginners, and for those who put droppers, it may be useful to start with a "butterfly" instead of a needle. She has a thinner diameter, so it usually turns out to be a little easier to prick her. In addition, she has a tail that can be squeezed by intertwining from a syringe to a dropper. "Butterfly" can be bought at any pharmacy.

Let's recap the basic rules:

1) Check with your doctor on the instructions for the drugs, which you read in full.
2) For the first time, it would not be bad for you to be shown how and what to do by specialists, but then it will not be necessary to drag them to them. Free yourself and them.
3) We start by selecting all necessary materials, medicines, disinfectants. Just making sure that everything is assembled, we move on.
4) We provide sterility. If there is ANY doubt about sterility, we do it all over again with new materials.
5) We prepare medicines (dissolve, open, dilute), then tools (syringes, droppers, tubes).
6) Do not worry - even drug addicts can do all this.) Be reasonable - you need to understand that everything is not always perfect the first time, but this is not a reason to panic. And we closely monitor the rate of administration of drugs!
7) Do not forget to disinfect everything after the procedure is completed.
8) We always throw away syringes with needle caps CLOSED (this is the minimum that you can do for society in normal conditions with such a bad kind of garbage).

How to properly perform an intramuscular injection?

1. It is necessary to use only disposable syringes and needles for intramuscular injections in order to avoid infection with blood-borne infections (HIV, hepatitis B, C, D). The syringe is unpacked immediately before the injection, the tip from the needle is not removed until the ampoule with the medicine is opened.

The volume of the syringe is selected based on the volume of the injected drug, as well as from the injection site - when injected into the thigh, it is better to use a 2.0-5.0 ml syringe with a thin needle, when injected into the buttocks - 5.0 ml, and for people with severe subcutaneous - fat layer - 10.0 ml. It is not recommended to inject more than 10 ml of the drug into the muscle so that difficult-to-resorb infiltrates do not form.

• Injection should be done with clean, washed with antibacterial soap or disinfectant-treated hands and in a suitable room. At home, the most suitable are places where wet cleaning is often carried out, or there are no sources of dust and dirt.
• It is recommended that the injection be given to the patient in the supine position so that the muscles of the buttocks or thighs are as relaxed as possible. If you have to inject while standing, then you need to make sure that the leg into which they will prick is not tense. To do this, it needs to be slightly bent at the knee and transfer the weight of the body to the other leg.
• Open the ampoule with the medicine and draw it into the syringe. Hold the finished syringe in one hand, and with the other hand, treat the site of the proposed injection within a radius of 5 cm with a piece of cotton soaked in medical alcohol.

If you have been prescribed 10 injections and you do them daily, alternate the right and. This is how intramuscular injections should be done. There is nothing difficult in this. Learn and act. Although, it is better not to bring your health to the need for treatment. Prevention is always cheaper and more painless for a person. All in your hands.

Any person can learn to do an intramuscular injection to himself. Read the instructions, put into practice, become a home doctor for loved ones.

I wish you all well-being and good health, Natalia Bogoyavlenskaya

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

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First, we want to inform you about what will be said about intramuscular injections, and more complex intravenous injections, it makes sense to entrust professional doctors. But if intramuscular injections are intended for you, and there is no time to visit the clinic, such an injection can be successfully done at home, involving family members in this. Making an intramuscular injection in the thigh is no more difficult than making an injection in the buttock.

Intramuscular injection in the thigh

To do this, you will need cotton balls pre-moistened with alcohol, a three-component medical syringe with a capacity of 2.5-11 milliliters (depending on the volume of injection), as well as a preparation that is intended for injection.

The injection must be carried out in the following sequence:

• Wash your hands thoroughly with soap.
• Wipe the ampoule intended for injection with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol.
• Shake the ampoule several times.
• File its tip, break it off and fill the syringe with medicine.
• Turn the syringe upside down and tap it with your finger to move air bubbles to the top of the syringe. By pressing the plunger of the syringe, squeeze the air out of the syringe. In order to be sure of this, wait for a drop of medicine to appear from the syringe needle.
• To determine the injection site, sit on a stool and bend your leg at the knee. The injection site will be the upper third of the thigh surface on the side.

Preparing for a subcutaneous injection in the thigh

Before you inject, relax your leg as much as possible. Using a cotton swab dipped in alcohol, lubricate the injection site. You should take the hand with the syringe from the side at an angle of 90 degrees, and with an energetic movement of the hand, insert the needle into the muscle mass. The needle should be inserted to a depth of 1-2 centimeters. Slowly push down on the plunger of the syringe and inject the medicine.

With a cotton swab moistened with alcohol, press the injection site and quickly remove the needle at a 90-degree angle, which will avoid bleeding and reduce the possibility of infection at the injection site. With the same cotton swab, massage the injection site for faster absorption of the medicine.

When conducting intramuscular injections, the injection sites should be alternated. You should not perform injections all the time in the same thigh. If possible, use syringes with thin needles and a volume not much larger than the volume of the drug being injected. If a reusable glass syringe is used for injection, it must be thoroughly boiled for disinfection before use.

The result of therapy largely depends on the thoroughness of the instructions of the attending physician. Many drugs are most effective and safe in the form of an injection, and therefore patients are forced to visit the treatment room in the clinic throughout the course of treatment. Which can be inconvenient due to reduced well-being or a busy schedule.

The way out of this situation is to learn how to inject yourself. Having figured out how to properly inject yourself into your thigh intramuscularly, and having gained practical skills, you can follow the doctor's instructions on your own at any convenient time. Our article will help you with this. Let's figure it out

Preparation for the procedure

Preparation for the injection is an important part of the procedure. All necessary items must be within maximum availability, and all hygiene requirements must be strictly observed.

Before you inject yourself in the thigh, you need to prepare:

• a bottle of antiseptic or disposable wipes soaked in an alcohol solution;
• cotton wool or cotton pads;
• sterile syringe;
• file for opening the ampoule;
• drug ampoules.

Solution for injection should be at room temperature. Therefore, if the drug was stored in the refrigerator, the ampoule must be warmed up by holding it in your hand.

The last stage of preparation is washing hands with soap and then subsequent treatment with an antiseptic. An alcohol solution has the maximum efficiency, which kills almost all known bacteria. But you can also use a water-based hand spray.

Syringe preparation

After processing the hands, you need to take a file and make cuts on the narrowest part of the ampoule or on a special mark. After that, the ampoule is wrapped in cotton wool and the glass is broken with a sharp movement.

The packaging with the syringe is torn, the protective cap is removed from the needle, the drug is drawn into the syringe. Then the protective cap is put on the needle, and air is released from the syringe cavity. It is necessary to put on a cap in order not to splash the medicine around the room.

An important point is the choice of syringe. Regardless of the volume of fluid injected, the volume of the syringe should not be less than 5 ml. The fact is that its size correlates with the length of the game. Therefore, 2 ml syringes are only suitable for subcutaneous injection.

Dilution of the drug

Some drugs require pre-dilution. The manufacturer can produce the drug in the form of two ampoules: one will contain the drug in the form of a tablet or powder, the other will contain a liquid for diluting the drug. In this case, it is necessary to prepare the drug as follows:

• file and break both ampoules;
• draw a solution for dilution into a syringe;
• fill the ampoule with the medicine with the solution;
• after the powder or tablet has dissolved, fill the syringe with medicine.

Similarly, the solution of the drug is mixed with an anesthetic, which eliminates pain before and after the injection. But in this case, it is important to take into account the risk of an allergic reaction to the anesthetic component.

After that, you can start the injection, but before that you need to figure out how to properly inject yourself into your thigh.

Where to put the injection

The intramuscular injection is most often performed in the gluteal region. For this, the buttock is visually divided into four equal parts, and the injection is placed in the upper outer corner. This method is used in any medical institution where manipulations are performed by patients not independently.

When we are talking about injecting yourself, it is better to inject into the thigh. This method is convenient in that a person gives himself an injection in the most comfortable position and gets the opportunity to control the course of the process, for example, the angle of insertion of the needle into the body. It remains only to find out.

Technique

After the preparatory stage is completed and the medicine is drawn into the syringe, you need to decide on the point where to put the injection. It is allowed to make an intramuscular injection into the thigh from the outside of the leg, into the vastus lateralis muscle, which is located along the entire length of the side of the leg to the patella.

The needle is inserted with a confident quick movement strictly at a right angle to the surface of the leg. It must be entered for ¾ of the length completely and only then slowly inject the drug. Recommendations for the rate of administration of the drug are usually indicated in the instructions for the drug. A good indicator that a drug has been administered too quickly is if the person feels worse, such as feeling faint or dizzy.

After emptying the syringe, it is necessary to pull out the needle in one motion, while pressing the injection site with a cotton swab soaked in alcohol or other antiseptic solution.

Pain on injection

Even if a person knows well, he may encounter pain syndrome. And the measures that need to be taken to combat pain depend on the cause of its occurrence:

1. It is recommended to use imported syringes that have thinner needles. An injection with such a syringe will be almost imperceptible.
2. Injections with some drugs are quite painful, no matter how well the technique is applied. In this case, you can dilute the drug with a solution of "Lidocaine", but it is important to remember that anesthetics can cause an acute allergic reaction, so it is undesirable to use them at home.
3. Often, pain occurs due to the wrong angle of insertion or withdrawal of the needle from the body. In both cases, the angle should be exactly 90 degrees.
4. Immediately after the injection, it is recommended to firmly press a cotton swab or an alcohol-soaked napkin to the needle insertion site. After the blood stops, you need to gently massage the thigh, which will improve the absorption of the drug into the bloodstream.
5. Often, pain occurs towards the end of the course of treatment, when injections are repeatedly placed in the same place. To avoid this, you need to alternate the injection site, and when hematomas appear, use means to get rid of them. For example, heparin ointment.

Therefore, before injecting yourself into the thigh, you need to carefully read the instructions for the drug and once again remember the basic rules for injecting yourself.

Fear of injection

The main problem that people face before injecting themselves in the thigh is the psychological discomfort before inserting a needle into their body. This entails the following problems:

• if a person cannot relax, his muscular system is tense, it will be more difficult to insert a needle, most likely, a person will experience pain;
• with strong tension and fear, it will be difficult for a person to coordinate his actions so as to insert the needle at the most correct (right) angle.

There is only one way to get rid of the fear of injecting yourself in the thigh: try to relax the muscle into which the injection is made as much as possible and insert the needle with a confident movement. After the first successful experience, the excitement before the procedure will noticeably decrease, and the next time there will be no fear of the injection.

Pose for an injection

In order for the muscle to be relaxed, and the injection does not cause pain, you need to take a comfortable position for the injection. For injection into the thigh muscle, the most convenient are sitting and standing positions.

While standing, you need to transfer the weight to the other leg so that the thigh muscles into which the injection is being given are relaxed. Similarly, it is worth doing when administering an injection to yourself while sitting.

Common Mistakes

Despite the fact that the instructions on how to inject yourself in the thigh are extremely simple and understandable, people often make the same mistakes, not paying attention to the recommendations and instructions.

1. It is strictly forbidden to use the same needle several times, to touch its surface until it is inserted into the body.
2. The injection site should be alternated to avoid bruising.
3. When working with a new drug that has not been used before, it is better to put the first injection of the course in the treatment room. In the event that intolerance to the components of the drug occurs, the medical professional will be able to quickly take the necessary actions. In practice, this happens extremely rarely, but the seriousness of such a situation cannot be underestimated.
4. You can not spontaneously change drugs to analogues, vary the dosage or degree of dilution of the drug. Any changes to the initial recommendations of the doctor can only be made by the doctor himself during an in-person consultation.

In conclusion, it should be said about the disposal of the syringe and ampoule after the injection. A protective cap should be put on the needle, and a broken ampoule should be wrapped with paper, for example, a syringe package. So you can protect yourself and other people from the risk of injury on glass or the tip of a medical needle.

Thus, knowing the injection technology, having studied the instructions, useful tips and photos (now you understand how to inject yourself in the thigh), it’s quite possible to independently follow the doctor’s prescriptions in comfortable conditions for yourself: at home, without long waiting in line for the procedure office and adjusting your schedule to the nurse's work hours.

The result of therapy largely depends on the thoroughness of the instructions of the attending physician. Many drugs are most effective and safe in the form of an injection, and therefore patients are forced to visit the treatment room in the clinic throughout the course of treatment. Which can be inconvenient due to reduced well-being or a busy schedule.

The way out of this situation is to learn how to inject yourself. Having figured out how to properly inject yourself into your thigh intramuscularly, and having gained practical skills, you can follow the doctor's instructions on your own at any convenient time. Our article will help you with this. Let's figure it out

Preparation for the procedure

Preparation for the injection is an important part of the procedure. All necessary items must be within maximum availability, and all hygiene requirements must be strictly observed.

Before you inject yourself in the thigh, you need to prepare:

• a bottle of antiseptic or disposable wipes soaked in an alcohol solution;
• cotton wool or cotton pads;
• sterile syringe;
• file for opening the ampoule;
• drug ampoules.

Solution for injection should be at room temperature. Therefore, if the drug was stored in the refrigerator, the ampoule must be warmed up by holding it in your hand.

The last stage of preparation is washing hands with soap and then subsequent treatment with an antiseptic. An alcohol solution has the maximum efficiency, which kills almost all known bacteria. But you can also use a water-based hand spray.

Syringe preparation

After processing the hands, you need to take a file and make cuts on the narrowest part of the ampoule or on a special mark. After that, the ampoule is wrapped in cotton wool and the glass is broken with a sharp movement.

The packaging with the syringe is torn, the protective cap is removed from the needle, the drug is drawn into the syringe. Then the protective cap is put on the needle, and air is released from the syringe cavity. It is necessary to put on a cap in order not to splash the medicine around the room.

An important point is the choice of syringe. Regardless of the volume of fluid injected, the volume of the syringe should not be less than 5 ml. The fact is that its size correlates with the length of the game. Therefore, 2 ml syringes are only suitable for subcutaneous injection.

Dilution of the drug

Some drugs require pre-dilution. The manufacturer can produce the drug in the form of two ampoules: one will contain the drug in the form of a tablet or powder, the other will contain a liquid for diluting the drug. In this case, it is necessary to prepare the drug as follows:

• file and break both ampoules;
• draw a solution for dilution into a syringe;
• fill the ampoule with the medicine with the solution;
• after the powder or tablet has dissolved, fill the syringe with medicine.

Similarly, the solution of the drug is mixed with an anesthetic, which eliminates pain before and after the injection. But in this case, it is important to take into account the risk of an allergic reaction to the anesthetic component.

After that, you can start the injection, but before that you need to figure out how to properly inject yourself into your thigh.

Where to put the injection

The intramuscular injection is most often performed in the gluteal region. For this, the buttock is visually divided into four equal parts, and the injection is placed in the upper outer corner. This method is used in any medical institution where manipulations are performed by patients not independently.

When it comes to self-injection, it is better to inject into the thigh. This method is convenient in that a person gives himself an injection in the most comfortable position and gets the opportunity to control the course of the process, for example, the angle of insertion of the needle into the body. It remains only to find out.

Technique

After the preparatory stage is completed and the medicine is drawn into the syringe, you need to decide on the point where to put the injection. It is allowed to make an intramuscular injection into the thigh from the outside of the leg, into the vastus lateralis muscle, which is located along the entire length of the side of the leg to the patella.

The needle is inserted with a confident quick movement strictly at a right angle to the surface of the leg. It must be entered for ¾ of the length completely and only then slowly inject the drug. Recommendations for the rate of administration of the drug are usually indicated in the instructions for use. medicine. A good indicator that a drug has been administered too quickly is if the person feels worse, such as feeling faint or dizzy.

After emptying the syringe, it is necessary to pull out the needle in one motion, while pressing the injection site with a cotton swab soaked in alcohol or other antiseptic solution.

Pain on injection

Even if a person knows well, he may experience pain. And the measures that need to be taken to combat pain depend on the cause of its occurrence:

1. It is recommended to use imported syringes that have thinner needles. An injection with such a syringe will be almost imperceptible.
2. Injections with some drugs are quite painful, no matter how well the technique is applied. In this case, you can dilute the drug with a solution of "Lidocaine", but it is important to remember that anesthetics can cause an acute allergic reaction, so it is undesirable to use them at home.
3. Often, pain occurs due to the wrong angle of insertion or withdrawal of the needle from the body. In both cases, the angle should be exactly 90 degrees.
4. Immediately after the injection, it is recommended to firmly press a cotton swab or an alcohol-soaked napkin to the needle insertion site. After the blood stops, you need to gently massage the thigh, which will improve the absorption of the drug into the bloodstream.
5. Often, pain occurs towards the end of the course of treatment, when injections are repeatedly placed in the same place. To avoid this, you need to alternate the injection site, and when hematomas appear, use means to get rid of them. For example, heparin ointment.

Therefore, before injecting yourself into the thigh, you need to carefully read the instructions for the drug and once again remember the basic rules for injecting yourself.

Fear of injection

The main problem that people face before injecting themselves in the thigh is the psychological discomfort before inserting a needle into their body. This entails the following problems:

• if a person cannot relax, his muscular system is tense, it will be more difficult to insert a needle, most likely, a person will experience pain;
• with strong tension and fear, it will be difficult for a person to coordinate his actions so as to insert the needle at the most correct (right) angle.

There is only one way to get rid of the fear of injecting yourself in the thigh: try to relax the muscle into which the injection is made as much as possible and insert the needle with a confident movement. After the first successful experience, the excitement before the procedure will noticeably decrease, and the next time there will be no fear of the injection.

Pose for an injection

In order for the muscle to be relaxed, and the injection does not cause pain, you need to take a comfortable position for the injection. For injection into the thigh muscle, the most convenient are sitting and standing positions.

While standing, you need to transfer the weight to the other leg so that the thigh muscles into which the injection is being given are relaxed. Similarly, it is worth doing when administering an injection to yourself while sitting.

Common Mistakes

Despite the fact that the instructions on how to inject yourself in the thigh are extremely simple and understandable, people often make the same mistakes, not paying attention to the recommendations and instructions.

1. It is strictly forbidden to use the same needle several times, to touch its surface until it is inserted into the body.
2. The injection site should be alternated to avoid bruising.
3. When working with a new drug that has not been used before, it is better to put the first injection of the course in the treatment room. In the event that intolerance to the components of the drug occurs, the medical professional will be able to quickly take the necessary actions. In practice, this happens extremely rarely, but the seriousness of such a situation cannot be underestimated.
4. You can not spontaneously change drugs to analogues, vary the dosage or degree of dilution of the drug. Any changes to the initial recommendations of the doctor can only be made by the doctor himself during an in-person consultation.

In conclusion, it should be said about the disposal of the syringe and ampoule after the injection. A protective cap should be put on the needle, and a broken ampoule should be wrapped with paper, for example, a syringe package. So you can protect yourself and other people from the risk of injury on glass or the tip of a medical needle.

Thus, knowing the injection technology, having studied the instructions, helpful tips and a photo (how to inject yourself in the thigh, now you understand), it’s quite possible to independently follow the doctor’s instructions in comfortable conditions for yourself: at home, without long waits in line at the treatment room and adjusting your schedule to the nurse’s work time.

There are moments in a person's life when an urgent need is required. medical care on one's own. And then skills such as giving an injection to yourself, giving an enema, and rinsing the stomach will come in handy. Therefore, do not be afraid to learn, especially when there is any chronic disease that requires frequent injections. Same diabetes insulin dependent type. No need to be afraid or embarrassed: the ability to give an intramuscular injection will help you when you need to take a course of drug treatment at home, but there is no great desire to visit the clinic daily, or pay a nurse to visit you regularly.

Learning how to give intramuscular injections is not difficult at all. But if you need intravenous injections, then it is better to contact specialists and carry out treatment in a hospital. If an incorrectly made intramuscular injection leaves you with a bruise, then an intravenous injection made by a person who does not have such a practice can lead to death.

Getting ready for the injection

To make intramuscular injections on your own, be sure to stock up on three-component syringes of the required volume. For intramuscular injections, only syringes with long needles are suitable. Short needles are only suitable for subcutaneous or intravenous injections. If you feel sorry for yourself by driving the needle only halfway into the muscle, you will get inflammation.

In order not to bring an infection under the skin, be sure to wash your hands with soap and clean your nails before the injection. Get sterile cotton balls and medical alcohol.

On the medicine bottle, gently pry off the metal foil seal with the tip of the scissors, and wipe the cork with alcohol. If instead of a bottle you have a glass ampoule with the drug, then be sure to wipe it too before using a nail file to cut off the tip of the ampoule and break it off through a gauze napkin. Draw the medicine into the syringe gently, tap the filled syringe with your finger to remove air bubbles. By pressing the plunger, release the bubbles out so that only the drug remains in the syringe.

And now we choose the place in which we will pierce the drug.

How to make an injection

Where is the best place to inject the medicine yourself? How to inject yourself in the leg? In what place of the human body will intramuscular injections be less painful?

Upper outer square of the buttocks - the best place for independent intramuscular injections. If there are skin lesions, pustules in the buttocks area, then it is better to choose an injection in the deltoid muscle (shoulder girdle) or in the front surface of the thigh (that is, in the leg). Before trying to inject the medicine, wipe the injection site with smooth in a circular motion napkin or cotton ball soaked in alcohol. To find out where the most suitable sites for intramuscular injections are located,

If you have chosen the buttock area, then alternate injections in the right buttock with injections in the left buttock so as not to injure the skin. Hold the syringe as comfortably as possible, like the same pencil, or like a dart arrow at a right angle (90 degrees) to the surface of the skin. Stick the needle quickly into the skin, but slowly inject the medicine. Syringe hold right hand, and spread the injection site with your left fingers with two fingers. For left-handers, the opposite is true. Let go of the skin as soon as the syringe has entered it. Pull the piston towards you.

It happens that blood appears in the syringe. What does it mean? Vessel damaged. Pull out the syringe, throw it away, try again. No need to save on syringes by reusing them.

When the medicine is completely injected into the muscle, take a cotton swab with alcohol with your left hand, press it to the injection site, quickly pull out the syringe. Massage the injection site a little. If in doubt and want to see clearly how to inject yourself in the leg, the video will help you. By learning over time to give injections no worse than a practicing nurse, you can make life much easier for yourself and your loved ones. After all, who knows: perhaps your family will someday need the services of a professional nurse?

Complications after intramuscular injections

The most innocuous complication with improper administration of the drug intramuscularly is a hematoma or bruise. It occurs when small blood vessels in the skin are damaged. This complication causes only aesthetic inconvenience, there is no particular danger to human health.

If the drug was administered intramuscularly completely, but not absorbed, a bump or infiltrate may appear. Such a bump resolves itself within a few hours or days. You can use special pharmacy ointments that help the bumps dissolve, you can use traditional medicine.

An abscess sometimes forms from the infiltrate. As a result of microbes entering the skin, an abscess appears at the injection site, which does not need to be treated on its own. Such a complication may require both qualified conservative treatment with ointments and its surgical removal. No need to wait for the abscess to resolve itself. Contact the surgeon!

When ingested, some drugs can cause allergies. If swelling appears at the injection site, the skin turns red, itches, talk to the specialist who prescribed the medicine for you, you will have to change it.

It happens that help is needed right now, and right now you need to give yourself an injection. For example, this happens with a sudden attack of allergies. If there is no one at home, then you will have to save yourself. Often a person needs not a single procedure, but a whole course of injections, and there is simply no time to go to the hospital, and calling a nurse is not so cheap. In this case, only the ability to make an injection on your own will save. It is worth saying that you can do any injection yourself only intramuscularly. Intravenous injections and are done exclusively in a hospital setting and only by medical professionals.

An intramuscular injection can be made in the buttock or thigh. Let's consider the first two options.

Stab in the thigh

The advantage of an injection in the thigh is that it is easier to give than in the buttock, but for some this type of injection is more painful than in the buttock. For others, a shot in the thigh is perfect. In any case, after such an intramuscular injection, the thigh may pull a little.

For the injection we need:

• Alcohol. Usually they write that 96% alcohol is needed, but it knits too much and forms a film under which microbes will feel very at ease. That is why it is better to take alcohol 70%;
• Cotton balls;
• The medicine itself;
• Syringe. Of course, it is good if it is three-component.

In order to find a place on the thigh, we sit on a stool and bend the leg at the knee. You can also put your foot on a stool. The ideal place would be side surface legs, more precisely, its upper third. This muscle will hang down a little.

To prepare for the injection, wash your hands very well with soap, be sure to wipe the ampoule with medicine with alcohol and shake it. Next, we saw off the tip and break it off, we collect the product into the syringe. We knock on the device with a finger and collect all the air bubbles on the upper part at the top, turning them into one. Slightly press the piston and push out the bubbles. We wait. When the first drop appears on the needle. You can poke!

We inject ourselves in the thigh correctly

• Be sure to relax the thigh just before insertion;
• The needle during the injection is inserted to a depth of a maximum of a couple of centimeters;
• We moisten the place with two cotton wool in turn, where the injection was made;
• The hand in which the syringe is taken away and placed at a right angle to the thigh. We introduce decisively into the muscle.
• We press the thumb on the piston and inject the product. If the syringe consists of only two components, then it is better to hold its cylinder with your right hand, and press with your left hand.
• After the injection with a cotton pad, we press the place where the injection was made, quickly remove the needle at a right angle.
• Do not forget to massage the thigh muscle well immediately after the injection.

How to make an injection yourself in the buttock

Making such an injection intramuscularly to yourself is a little more difficult than in the thigh, because before conducting such an injection, you need to find the upper outer square on the “fifth point”. In order to do this, you need to practice in front of a mirror. The selected buttock is divided into four quarters and the outer upper section is marked here. You can administer the medicine yourself both lying on your side and near the mirror in an upright position and half a turn. The surface during the "lying" procedure should be rigid in order to better control everything.

The preparatory procedures are the same as for an injection in the thigh: you need to prepare cotton wool, alcohol, medicine and a syringe, remove air from it and disinfect the injection site.

Next, we lie down on our side or stand in front of the mirror in 0.5 turns, take the syringe in our hand (right) and inject it sharply. The needle should enter three-fourths of its length into the muscle. If more or completely - also nothing to worry about.

We hold the device with our left hand, we shift the syringe so that it is convenient to hold it and press the piston with the right thumb. We press on it slowly and inject ourselves with the medicine to the last drop. IN left hand take a cotton pad with alcohol and press the injection site well.

We pull out the needle sharply. Massage the pierced area a little.

How to secure your life

• The injection sites must be alternated, otherwise there will be bruises.
• It is best to use imported syringes, with a thin and sharp needle. In addition, it is worth remembering that a five-cc syringe has a thinner needle than a two-cube one.
• Do not use syringes and needles twice or thrice.

How to inject yourself: rules of procedure