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I have type 1 diabetes myself and there are lots of inaccuracies during this episode. First, the orange box they find in the camper van is not an insulin kit. It is a glucagen hypo kit. It is used for treating bad hypoglycaemia. It comes with a syringe filled with a liquid solution which is missing from the box and a small glass vial filled with the glucagen/glucagon in powder form.

We do have injector pens and it did look like Max picked up insulin.

Miranda says Ball will only have enough insulin to last twelve to fifteen hours. I'm from England and I don't know about insulin in Spain but my vials have 100ml. Depending on whether or not he carbohydrate counts or does set doses from his doctor it would effect how long it lasts. I carbohydrate count and my ratio is 1:1. A vial of insulin would probably last me two days, maybe more, depending on how much carbohydrate I eat.

When they find him in the cage she gets his injection pen. On the needles there is a larger plastic piece on top of the purple bit seen in the episode and it's sealed with paper. You also have to screw them on my pen.

Miranda didn't dial any insulin on the end of the pen before injecting him in the arm. Also even if she did, if she gave him too much insulin he might go into hypoglycaemia, or if she didn't do enough he would still be hyperglycaemiac. She should have checked his blood sugar before injecting him, but I know she didn't have it.

You're supposed to inject insulin into the fatty tissue just below the skin. My nurse told me not to inject in my arms probably because it's more likely to go into my muscle which makes the insulin work faster. So it was probably right for her to do it in his arm if she had given him insulin.

Also, it takes 30 minutes for insulin to start working so it's realistic that Ball didn't wake up straight away.

Unused insulin cartridges are supposed to be kept refrigerated from 36°F to 46°F. Cartridges that you're using have to be kept from 56°F to 80°F. Sometimes the weather in Majorca can be higher than this.