f GATTEX the right way.
If you cannot give yourself the injection:
ask your healthcare provider or nurse to help you, or
ask someone who has been trained by a healthcare provider or nurse to give your injections
Important information:
Before you start, check the "Use By" date on your GATTEX kit. Make sure that the "Use By" date has not passed. Do not use anything in the GATTEX kit after the "Use By" date on the kit.
Give GATTEX within 3 hours after you mix the powder with the Diluent (Sterile Water for Injection).
Use the syringes and needles provided in the GATTEX kit.
Do not use a GATTEX vial more than one time, even if there is medicine left in the vial. Throw away any unused GATTEX after you give your injection.
Safely throw away GATTEX vials after use.
Do not re-use syringes or needles. See "Step 7: Dispose of syringes and needles" for information about how to safely throw away needles and syringes.
To help avoid needle-stick injuries, do not recap needles.
GATTEX kit
Gather the supplies you will need to prepare GATTEX and to give your injection. (See Figure A)
From your GATTEX kit you will need:
5-mg vial of GATTEX with green cap
Your healthcare provider will tell you how many vials of GATTEX you will need for your injection.
2 alcohol swab pads
Diluent syringe. Your kit has only 1 type of Diluent syringe.
With a white snap-off cap OR
With a gray screw top
22 gauge, 1½ inch needle
Plastic dosing syringe with needle attached
An FDA-cleared sharps disposal container. See "Step 7: Dispose of needles and syringes."
Step 1: Prepare the injection.
Choose a well-lit, clean, flat work surface.
Wash your hands with soap and water.
Step 2: Preparing the Diluent syringe.
Put the Diluent syringe and 22G 1½ inch needle in front of you on your work surface. (See Figure B1)
Hold the Diluent syringe by the barrel.
a.
If you have the Diluent syringe with the white snap-off cap: Snap or twist off the white cap (bend the cap sideways until the cap comes off). Only the top portion of the white cap should be snapped off. The lower portion of the cap will remain in place (See Figure B2). Throw the cap away.
b.
If you have the Diluent syringe with the gray screw top: Unscrew the top counter clockwise (to the left) ( See Figure B3). Throw the top away.
Remove the 22G 1½ inch needle from the package. Use the fold in the package to peel back the plastic cover (See Figure C). Leave the plastic cap on the needle.
Push the open end of the needle onto the end of the Diluent syringe (See Figure D). Twist the needle clockwise (to the right) until it stops turning.
When the needle is tightly in place, put the Diluent syringe and needle on your work surface.
Step 3: Mix GATTEX powder with Diluent.
Remove the green cap from the GATTEX vial. Throw away the green cap.
Find the gray rubber seal on top of the vial (See Figure E).
Use an alcohol swab pad to clean the gray rubber seal (See Figure F).
Do not touch the gray rubber seal after you clean it.
Pick up the Diluent syringe with the needle attached.
Remove the plastic cap that covers the needle (See Figure G). Throw the cap away.
Hold the vial between thumb and index (pointer) finger (See Figure H). Be careful not to touch the gray rubber seal.
Push the needle down through the center of the gray rubber seal.
Slowly push down on the plunger of the Diluent syringe. Empty all the Diluent into the GATTEX vial.
Leave the needle a |
