Travelling Notes
- Carry essential supplies and insulin
- on you at all times.
- Have several copies of a medical letter stating you have diabetes and are carrying syringes or pen needles on you to give to customs agents. Don't give away the original of this letter.
- Don't store insulin in the baggage compartment of planes because
- it will freeze.
- Always obtain medical insurance
- when travelling.
- Don't expose your insulin to extremes
- of temperature. If necessary carry it
- in an insulated bag or thermos flask.
- Check the strength of any insulin
- you get overseas (some countries
- market different strength insulin).
- Go wherever your heart leads you.
- But remember that you take your diabetes with you. Your self care
- is your travelling friend.
- * Source: Diabetes New Zealand
