Sharps/Medical Waste Disposal at Disney World Hotels?

[lanejudy]

If his medication is an auto-injector -- and that's what it sounds like from your description -- the needle retracts back into the pen. You can request a sharps container for your room. You can discretely dispose of the pen in any public sharps container. Or you can put the used pen into a sturdy plastic container and take it home to dispose of in your home container. Sounds like 1 injection, 1 pen, so it's really up to you how much hassle you want to take to dispose of it.

We always travel with a dry-box for our medications (kind of like this); I would put it in a separate baggie and place the baggie back in the dry-box until I got home to dispose of it easily. This is exactly what we do when camping.

 

[Sadie22]

If there's a cap or stand that comes off the auto-injector before use, you could put that back on for storage until you can safely dispose of the used auto-injector.

 

[elvispursley]

Would that make it in itself a sharp container. My Dexcom retracts it self making it a sharp container

What do you do with your Dexcom? I haven't really found a sharps container that has an opening big enough to insert the thing!!

 

[gap2368]

What do you do with your Dexcom? I haven't really found a sharps container that has an opening big enough to insert the thing!!

put it in the trash. I think that is what most do

 

[elvispursley]

put it in the trash. I think that is what most do

That's exactly what I do, too!

 

[DisSurfer878]

That's exactly what I do, too!

That's also what we do. The sharps are not for his diabetes care. Totally unrelated medicine

 

[DisSurfer878]

If there's a cap or stand that comes off the auto-injector before use, you could put that back on for storage until you can safely dispose of the used auto-injector.

The cap doesn't actually screw back on, weirdly enough. I've tried

 

[serenitynow]

Hi all!

We are in the early planning stages of a WDW trip. Once a month, my partner gets injections of a medication. Based on the dates we are looking at, we will have to travel with this medication and do the injection while there.
Fortunately it seems all the places we are looking at have mini fridges to keep the medication cold as we won't use it until halfway through our trip.
HOWEVER, we only have a GIANT sharps box at home. Not particularly portable and will already be mostly filled with sharps (this is provided by the pharmaceutical company).
I know most "public" bathrooms or first aid will have a sharps disposal, but what can we do at the hotels?

Call housekeeping, they will bring you a small sharps container. Easy peasy