If it can be helped, they should not be used again.The needle is less effective at penetrating the skin if it is dirty and dulled after a single use.Dull needles can cause a lot of damage to your veins.If you want to rinse your needles, you should draw cool water into them and then excrete it through the needle.For at least 30 seconds, rinse the needles with bleach.If you want to prevent damage to your veins, you shouldsharpen used needles on a honing surface.
Step 1: Immediately after using them, clean them.
This may seem like a challenge.If you clean the needles before and after you use them, you will reduce the chances of catching a blood-borne disease.This will prevent the blood from getting stuck in the needle.
Step 2: Make sure your area is clean.
The best places to clean needles are kitchens and bathrooms.It's a good idea to clean the entire area where you'll be sterilizing the needles with a strong cleaner.It's a good idea to avoid sterilizing needles in dirty areas.If you do that, the work area could be contaminated with viruses andbacteria.
Step 3: Your hands should be washed.
Wet your hands.The household soap should be applied to them.Rub your hands together.The spaces between your fingers and fingernails are important.There are places wherebacteria hides.You can rinse the soap from your hands.For at least 20 seconds, wash your hands.A quick rinse won't remove the germs from your hands.
Step 4: Put bleach and cold water in a container.
You can use a clean cap or cup if you don't have suitable containers.The containers should be large enough to hold the full amount of fluid.If your sink is flat bottomed, you may want to put these containers in the sink.If you don't have bleach, fill the container with high percentage alcohol or hydrogen peroxide.
Step 5: Take water out of the needle.
Put your needle in the water.To fill the barrel of the syringe, draw back the plunger.The needle should be shake lightly.Put the needle over the drain and press the plunger.This is done several times.It's never a good idea to reuse fluid that has been in a needle.It's a good idea to dispose of the fluid down a drain.Needles that have been used before should be handled with care.A dirty needle may cause illness.
Step 6: Pour water into the barrel.
The plunger needs to be pulled back until it is free of the needle.The barrel should be filled with water from the open end.The water can be squirted through the needle and down the drain.Do it at least 3 times.When the barrel is full of water, shake the syringe and tap it against the palm of your hand.This will loosen hardened blood.
Step 7: Take bleach and put it in the syringe.
Attach the needle to the container with bleach.The barrel is half full if you draw enough bleach into it.Don't overfill the needle.Pull the plunger as far back as you can without removing it.
Step 8: Make sure you shake the needle.
The needle should be shake lightly.The barrel should be lightly tapped against the palm of your hand.For at least 30 seconds, do this.The bleach needs a lot of time to kill resistant viruses.
Step 9: The syringe needs to be washed with bleach at least 3 times.
To get bleach out of the drain, position the syringe over it and press the plunger.When cleaning needles, never reuse bleach.If you want to repeat the process of drawing fresh bleach into the syringe, shake it for 30 seconds, and then use the bleach down the drain two more times.
Step 10: The water should be cool enough to flush the needle several times.
The dirty needle has contaminated the water in your container.Clean the container with a strong cleaner, like bleach, after emptying the water down the drain.The container needs to be rinse several times.You can refill it with water.Water can be drawn into the barrel until it is half full.The needle is in the water.The plunger should be extended as far back as possible.Shake the needle gently.The water should be ejected by pressing the plunger.Don't reuse water.This should be done at least three times.
Step 11: Clean your area.
The containers should be emptied down the drain.To clean the containers and sink, use fresh, undiluted bleach.The bleach should be washed thoroughly with water.Allow the containers to dry with a towel, then put them away.
Step 12: Pick out your supplies.
The condition of the needle can be inspected with a magnifying glass.At medical supply stores, you can buy Arkansas or carbide sharpening stones.You will need a small container for water.The striking surface of a matchbox can be used as the sharpening surface if a sharpening stone is unavailable.Sometimes the magnifying glasses used by jewelers and cosmetologists can be found at flea markets.
Step 13: Put a clean needle into the water.
Only use needles that have been cleaned.You can fill your container with water.If you want to fill the barrel halfway, you need to insert the tip of your needle into the water.The needle is in the water.
Step 14: The needle should be moved backwards against the sharpening surface.
The needle should be at one end of the surface.Pull the tip of the needle backwards until you reach the opposite end.Don't pull the needle while sharpening it.It is possible to create dangerous fragments by sharpening into the barrel.When pulled along the entire length of a sharpening stone, most needles will sharpen in 2 to 3 passes.If you press too hard on the needle, it could damage it.There is an appropriate container for disposing of damaged needles.
Step 15: The motion should be repeated a couple of times.
Lift the needle and repeat the process at least 2 more times.The tip of the needle should be against the surface if you flip it.Pull the needle against the surface to finish sharpening.If you have a magnifying glass, you can use it to look at the needle point.If you notice something isn't right, pass the needle a few more times.
Step 16: Make sure the needle is clean.
To completely remove the water from the barrel, press the plunger.Pull the needle through the alcohol swab that was wrapped around it.The swab should be thrown away.To finish cleaning your needle, repeat this process with a fresh swab.Small needle fragments can be created by sharpening a syringe.These can be deadly if injected.When cleaning needles, be thorough.Before using the needles, they should be wet.This will allow for better penetration.