Diabetes Travel Checklist: Adapts to Your Trip, Printable

Your travel checklist

• Pack all medicines and supplies for the whole trip plus extraAsk your care team how much extra to bring. Keep them in your carry-on, in original labelled boxes.
• Carry a list of your medicines, doses as prescribed, and your care team’s phone number
• Wear medical IDSee medical alert bracelets.
• Meter, strips, lancets, spare batteries and control solution
• Fast-acting carbohydrate within reach (glucose tablets, juice box)See the rule of 15.
• Glucagon, if prescribed, and tell your travel companions where it is
• Ketone strips if your care team has advised them
• Ask your care team for a plan if you get sick away from home
• Insurance cards, and check what your plan covers away from home
• Pack snacks in case meals are delayed
• Find a pharmacy near where you will stay
• Insulin, pen needles or syringes, in your carry-on (never checked)Bring spare pens or vials. Check storage limits.
• A way to keep insulin below its limit, usually 86°F, without freezing itSee insulin cooling case and how to store insulin.
• Keep insulin in original packaging with the pharmacy label
• Backup supplies: infusion sets, reservoirs, adhesive, and the pump maker’s helplineAsk your care team what to do if the pump fails.
• Extra sensors and adhesive; charge your phone or receiver
• Check your device maker’s advice on scanners and X-rays
• Tell the TSA officer about your supplies; keep medically necessary liquids in a separate binSee TSA and diabetes supplies.
• Print a TSA Notification Card or bring a doctor’s letter
• Ask your care team about dose timing for the time zones you will cross, and write down the planWe do not give dosing advice. Your care team does.
• Learn the generic name of each medicine, as brand names can differ abroad
• Carry a doctor’s letter listing your conditions, devices and medicines
• Check travel health insurance and how to reach emergency care at your destination
• Ask about refills or a vacation supply override so you do not run out
• Plan where you will store supplies at each place you stay

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