'Could end tragically': in Oklahoma, a group of people were injected with insulin instead of a flu shot

In Oklahoma 10, a person in a mental health care facility was hospitalized after being injected with insulin rather than a flu shot, writes ABC News. A healthy person is categorically not recommended to administer insulin: this can be very dangerous, and in rare cases leads to coma and death.

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On Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 6, staff received an emergency call from Jacqueline House in Bartlesville, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) north of Tulsa. They reported several people "appeared unconscious," Bartlesville Police Chief Tracy Rawls said.

Rawls added that the institution had contracted with an experienced pharmacist to administer a flu vaccine, but all received insulin injections. Rawls said the pharmacist is working with the police, but investigators believe this was an accident.

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Eight guests and two employees were sent to a hospital in Bartlesville. Officials said they had already been discharged, and it is expected that everyone will be released soon.

“I have never seen a medical misfortune of this magnitude happen. It could have ended worse, even tragically, ”Rawls suggested.

Insulin is usually given to a patient with diabetes, a disease in which blood sugar levels are too high.

When insulin is administered to a person not suffering from diabetes, depending on the size of the dose, he may experience hypoglycemia - a drop in blood sugar to an abnormally low level. This condition causes severe sweating, nervousness, fainting, cramps.

As the site notes diabet-control.ru, one unit of insulin lowers glucose in the blood of a person without diabetes to 8 mmol / L. If you introduce a large dose at a time, then this is fraught with falling into a hypoglycemic coma and the death of the patient; experimenting in this way is strictly forbidden. The effect of artificial insulin on the body of an ordinary person is not yet fully understood.

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A similar error occurred in September in Indianapolis, when 16 students mistakenly made an injection of insulin during a skin test for tuberculosis. Students at the McKenzie Innovation and Technology Center in Indianapolis were taken to local hospitals for follow-up after they received “small dose” injections of insulin.

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