What is a sterilized needle?

Question

Is it just a normal needle? Like a bullet pin?

Answer 1

A sterilized needle is a needle which is sterile – clean. As for kind of needle, it would be the kind used for injections, like on a syringe, thus the need for it to be clean. Does that help?

Answer 2

A " needle"  is the fine point on the end of a syringe that is used either to inject fluid of some kind into your body, like medicine or water (saline solution) or blood, or to take out blood from your body in order to analyze it.

A "sterilized needle" is one that has been kept in boiling water or steam long enough to kill whatever germs, bacteria or viruses might have been on it.

This is vitally important to users of street drugs who share the same needle when injecting into their body because they may well be ill with something terrible like HIV, AIDS, or hepatitis, and give these diseases to whoever uses the same needle without sterilizing if first, which of course users of street drugs don't do.

So many states and cities talk about providing a program where anyone can ask for and get clean, sterilized needles by asking for them, in order to stop the spread of these killer diseases.

Answer 3

A needle with no bacteria or viruses on it.