Planning ahead is the key to traveling with diabetes. Persons with diabetes can enjoy all kinds of recreational travel from a week at the beach, to camping in the Rockies, to sightseeing across Europe. The American Diabetes Association provides the helpful suggestions below for persons with diabetes planning to travel.
Taking special care when traveling with diabetes:
Be sure to have a complete medical examination well before you travel to make sure your diabetes is under control. This will allow enough time for immunizations, if you need them, and give you time to recover from any side effects. Also ask your physician to give you a letter with the following information:
a) How your diabetes is treated (diabetes pills, insulin shots, etc.).
b) All medications and equipment needed to manage your diabetes (i.e., insulin, syringes, and other medications or devices).
c) Allergies to foods or medication.
Also have your physician give you a prescription for insulin or diabetes pills. You should have more than enough of your medication and syringes to last through the trip with you, but, in case of emergency, the prescription may help.
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