I dunno, but we did - actually Dean said he just ran it under the tap to bring up the temp a little bit. You're not actually heating it, just getting the temp up a little more.
Sorry, got sidetracked with the other thing, but yes, Dean did work pretty hard to try to avoid Poppy getting sore by utilizing different stick locations. It was almost to the point he was thinking about keeping a chart or log so he could see where he'd been, so to speak.I am still going to try to find other loose skin areas a little lower than the shoulder blades to try to expand the field of 'sticks'.
Mike was trying to keep track with 'left, middle, right' rotation, but I am sure I messed up that a bit moving down or up a bit further.It was almost to the point he was thinking about keeping a chart or log so he could see where he'd been, so to speak.
I wrap the fluid bag in a heating pad on low - it takes about an hour to warm when the bag is full and less time as the bag empties. I rotate the bag a few times to avoid hot spots. This warms it just enough but not too much. I make sure the line gets warmed as well. I am more comfortable with this approach than submerging the bag in water. You can use an infrared thermometer to check the temperature.I use 22 gauge needles, can't bring myself to go to 20 gauge. It takes less than 10 minutes for 100 ml so not that bad really. I don't warm the fluids, they are room temp already as they said I didn't have to refrigerate them. Not warm enough? How do you repeatedly re-warm a 1000 ml bag?
And that is just what I was going to ask next - location. For those of you who had to administer fluids daily, how 'free' were you about where to place the needle? I try to keep in the general area between the shoulder blades, but that is not a whole lot of room to work with when she is being stuck daily. I am thinking there shouldn't be any reason I can't use excess skin areas below that area as well. I was probably closer to that area with the monthly B-12 injections.
No one ever suggested going into the scruff coming from her head!! Wow, I guess I will have to try that. I might have to look that up on YouTube first though!