Toolkit Overview / Prep
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).
Prep and Cleanup
Yellow Box
1. Practice Skin
Practice sticking yourself and injecting insulin
2. Alcohol Wipes
To clean rubber stopper on insulin bottle or pen. You may also clean skin if dirty, but wait to dry before you inject insulin.
3. Sharps Container
Holds used needles, syringes, and lancets
STOP - Only move forward when you are sure all 3 items are in your Overview / Prep (Yellow) Box
Checking Blood Glucose (sugar)
Red Box
1. Lancing Device
Holds lancet and sticks finger
2. Test Strips
Test strips are put into glucose meter before blood is applied
3. Glucose Meter
Measures blood glucose (sugar)
4. Lancets (Needles)
Sticks finger to check glucose
STOP - Only move forward when you are sure all 4 items are in your Checking Blood Glucose (Red) Box
Insulin Pen Injection
Green Box
1. Insulin Pen
A single-use pen that contains insulin. Or a reusable pen that takes insulin cartridges.
2. Pen Needle
Attached to all insulin pens
STOP - Only move forward when you are sure both items are in your Insulin Pen Injection (Green) Box
Syringe Injection
Blue Box
1. Insulin Syringes
Used with insulin bottle to draw up insulin
2. Insulin Bottle (Vial)
Holds insulin to draw up with syringe (prescribed by your doctor)
STOP - Only move forward when you are sure both items are in your Syringe Injection (Blue) Box