CREATE YOUR INJECTION SITE ROTATION PLAN
Select 4 injection sites on the body chart below by simply clicking on them, based on your preference or recommendations from your health care professional. Click download to get your plan.
Then, every time you randomly pick a coloured pen needle, inject in the site corresponding to the colour of the pen needle.
Want to learn why it is important to rotate your injection sites? Click here!
My SiteSmart™ Injection Site Rotation Plan
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WHY REGULARLY USING DIFFERENT INJECTION SITES IS IMPORTANT
Click on below links to listen to your educational messages. These aim at helping you to get the most out of your insulin treatment.
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IMPORTANT NOTE
Insulin users should be familiar with best practices in injection techniques and seek advice when necessary. Best practices recommend, among other things, that insulin users should manually inspect and palpate their injection sites to detect potential areas of lipohypertrophy, defined as a thickened rubbery area of fat tissue underneath the skin. If you feel bumps under your skin, these may indicate areas of lipohypertrophy that could affect the absorption of injected insulin. If you have been told or that think you may be suffering from lipohypertrophy and are planning to use new injection sites as part of a site rotation program, talk to your health care professional who may advise you to adjust your insulin dose and monitor your blood glucose levels more frequently.
1. The mCPN Intervention Study: Optimizing Insulin Technique With a Coloured Pen Needle Education System, Can J of Diab. 43 (2019) S14-S16
2. Forum for Injection Techniques FIT Canada, Recommendations for Best Practice in Injection Technique, Berard et al.
3. Worldwide injection technique questionnaire study: injecting complications and the role of the professional. AH Frid et al. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2016