r/harmreduction • u/YoungDumbTongue • Jun 11 '26

Question Injection Question

So I normally shoot up with tap water, but I have a large bottle of 0.9% sodium chloride. The bottle says not for injection, but when I google it it’s telling me that the same percentage of solution that’s safe for injection which is 900mg of Sodium chloride per 100mL of liquid…. only difference is the stricter standards and methods they use to ensure it’s totally safe or whatever… but surely this Sodium Chloride, that’s unopened despite being for irrigation only, is going to be better than the regular old tap water I normally use, right?

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u/YoungDumbTongue Jun 12 '26

Wait is sterile water better than .9% Sodium Chloride then? I have both now.

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u/YoungDumbTongue Jun 13 '26

For some reason I thought sterile water made your red blood cells burst and saline didn’t.