
Originally Posted by
damiongage
To clear up any confusion....did you do it the best way?...No....Will you be fine Yes. If you did it the way you stated. You will be fine. No matter how sterile you made the transfer, you could still get an infection from it, and it is good to know how to handle it if you do get one. You can keep some antibiotics on hand, and some sources even sell the more commonly used antibiotics for injection infections. I have never not once had any type of infection and I put air in every one of my vials. The common answer is to add some BA or bake it. While this will do no harm to the gear (except making it more painful or turning it darker) it also does not change the mixture form bacteriostatic to bactericidal. Bactericidal meaning bacteria-killing and bacteriolstatic bacteria-inhibiting. The only way for you to make sure your gear is truly sterile is to filter it yourself or to auto-clave it. I would bet that nobody here has an auto-clave to sterilize gear unless they have one beacuse they are a doctor, dentist, or a tattoo artist/body piercer. And nobody is wasting 2.5cc of gear to filter it. Think about the precautions we take, we switch needles after drawing before shooting...when was the last time a doctor did that for you? In real world applications....you took more precautions than most UGL's did to insure your gear was as sterile as possible.