Prepare your Toolkit
If you didn’t fill your boxes before, check each box of your Toolkit using the guide below based on if your doctor prescribed a pen or syringe.
Here is an overview of your Toolkit — don’t start just yet!
Prep and Cleanup
Yellow Box
1. Practice Skin
To practice using the lancing device and injections.
2. Alcohol Wipes
To clean the rubber top of the insulin bottle and pen. You may also clean skin if dirty, but wait to dry before you inject insulin.
3. Sharps Container
To safely throw away used pen needles, syringes, and lancets.
4. My Diabetes Kit User Guide
Paper instructions that match the website.
Checking Blood Glucose
Red Box
1. Lancing Device
Gets a drop of blood from your finger.
2. Test Strips
Strips that are put in the glucose meter to check your blood glucose (sugar).
3. Glucose Meter
Measures blood glucose (sugar).
4. Lancets (Needles)
Put in a lancing device to get a drop of blood from your finger.
Pen Injection
Green Box
1. Insulin Pen
Has many doses of insulin for you to inject over many days. Some people may use more than one type of insulin pen.
2. Pen Needle
Put on your insulin pen to inject insulin. Use pen needle only once and throw away in a sharps container.
Syringe Injection
Blue Box
1. Insulin Syringes
Gets insulin from an insulin bottle. Use syringe once and throw away in a sharps container.
2. Insulin Bottles (Vials)
Has many doses of insulin for you to inject over many days. Some people may use more than one type of insulin bottle.