How Do You Prepare For A Big Event Or Trip With T1D? 🧳🍏
How do you manage T1D while traveling or attending big events? ✈️🍽️
Share your strategies for staying on top of your diabetes and enjoying life’s big moments.
Comment below with your tips—let’s help each other plan for success! 💬
I always make sure I bring more supplies than I need and I always take some in my carryon in case my luggage is lost! I also always have my doctors’ phone numbers in my pocketbook and suitcase in case I am incapacitated during my travels! I always pack 4oz apple juices in both my carryon and in a plastic bag in both my suitcases!
I always pack at least twice what I expect to need as far as my pump/cgm supplies go. I also always pack low sugar snacks and emergency glucose tabs and pen. This includes some low sugar granola bars, incase I need a quick breakfast that will hold me. The rest of my snacks can include gummies, jelly beans, chips, hard candies, etc. - - things that won't spoil or melt. I also pack carrot sticks (usually baby carrots) and nuts for healthy snacks. And, I always bring cheese sticks and crackers, or a sandwich, with fruit, incase of delays of a meal, on or off the plane. Fruit, like mandarin oranges, apples and/or bananahs are included as well in my pack. If I have some single serve nut butter on hand, I bring those too.
Always plan for the unexpected. Pump problem,set displacement,tube problem. Remember no one can help you with your situation but you. Have the number of the tech unit for your pump. Extra insulin and syringes and your glucose meter
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