As winter approaches, many parents of children with diabetes report that when measuring their children's blood sugar at home, they often encounter problems such as difficulty in squeezing blood, inability to squeeze out blood, and insufficient blood volume. As a result, they cannot accurately monitor their children's blood sugar levels. For blood collection in winter, we must understand two points.
First, you can droop your arm for 15 seconds, stroke your other hand down from the wrist, or shake or rub your hands for about half a minute. When the peripheral blood vessels at the fingertips are filled, you can collect blood.
The second is to soak the hands in hot water. Parents prepare a basin of warm water around 40°C and soak the children's fingers for 5 minutes. After the blood circulation accelerates and the blood vessels expand, blood will be easily collected.
At the same time, collecting blood from children requires more skills. Most children are afraid of pain and have a fear of needles. At this time, parents need to encourage their children to overcome their fear. Some children are unwilling to collect blood, usually several parents forcefully hold the child to collect blood. In this case, parents should pay attention to control the location of blood collection. Because the child repeatedly struggles and moves, the skin on both sides of the ring finger should be chosen where the skin is thinner. Collect blood. Because the blood vessels on both sides of the finger are rich and the nerve endings are less distributed, blood collection at this site is not only not painful, but also has sufficient blood volume. Do not prick it close to the nail, which may easily cause paronychia.
Some parents are afraid that their children will be in too much pain, so they prick very shallowly and cannot collect blood, and they are unwilling to re-collect, so they squeeze hard. This is not advisable, because the blood squeezed out with force is mixed with interstitial fluid, and the blood is Dilution leads to low blood sugar measurement values, affecting the correct judgment of the condition. The bottom of the cover of the blood collection pen where the blood collection needle is inserted into the blood collection pen can be padded with something. After the needle is pricked, gently push the sides of the fingers to allow the blood to slowly overflow.
