Does the smell of insulin always imply a pump leak?

My son has been sick at home for a couple of days. He is injecting large quantities of insulin all day to try to stay in range, and not succeeding.

I can distinctly smell insulin from his Pod. Is this a certain sign of insulin leak? There is no sign of humidity around the Pod, so no visible insulin.

@Beacher has written several times about needing to use a pen to inject more than 5U because the insulin flowed back around his cannula.

Whenever we have a hard time staying in range, we always have this concern about whether the pump is actually working properly :slight_smile: I am sure most of the time it is unwarranted.

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