WaxLyrical
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Thank you.Your comment about mixing the bags is 100% correct.
The higher concentration fluid - 50% glucose - comes in glass bottles. They have a rubber top so you withdraw using a needle & syringe. It's stored in a drug cupboard normally, though I can't speak for CoC of course.
You withdraw what you need then discard. (If 2 babies happened to need it at the same time you could use the same bottle, obviously).
IMO putting insulin in this wouldn't be something anybody would do. Apart from anything else, the baby would have to be significantly hypogycaemic already for 50% glucose to be used. And I have a feeling the rubber cap is covered with a metal ring pull in any case, though I might be making that up! (I retired 7 years ago).
Ok so the 50% solution is discarded pretty much immediately, so the insulin must have been in the 10% bags to start with then (at least for the 3rd bag anyway).
To clarify, I wasn’t suggesting the 50% solution contained insulin by accident, more questioning whether it would be “less risky” to poison that one container, than poison a selection of 10% bags. But anyway, sounds like it’s not just one container of 50%, so that puts an end to that theory! JMO.