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| Tips to Travel and Stay Healthy | You are able to stay healthy with diabetes. Just try following tips and you’ll see how they work.
- Follow your diet.
- Perform exercise regularly.
- Take your medications as you’ve been prescribed.
- Check your blood sugar level regularly.
- Check your blood sugar level more often when you are ill.
- Try to maintain your blood glucose as close to normal as possible; it is about from 80 to 140 milligrams glucose per deciliter blood.
- Try to maintain your blood pressure near normal. It must be under 130/80 millimeters of mercury.
- Try to maintain blood fats near normal: less than 200 milligrams per deciliter.
- Do not smoke.
- Do not drink alcohol.
- Lose your excess weight.
- Check your feet and skin each day.
- Plan ahead your journey to make it safe.
- Brush and floss your teeth daily.
- Make an appointment with your dentist twice a year.
- Get a flu shot every year.
- Visit your doctor regularly for blood tests, urine tests, foot exams, dilated-eye exams, and blood pressure checks.
- Take an interest in your doctor whether you should get a pneumonia vaccine.
- Try to meet often with your diabetes educator, dietitian, and other members of your health care team.
- Update your diabetes education continually.
Travel Tips
If you have diabetes, it doesn’t mean that you have to stay away from going anywhere you want. You just need to take a few extra steps and plan ahead your journey. You have to be assured of a safer, more relaxed trip.
- You have always to carry and wear your diabetes identification.
- Try to stay as close to your regular schedule for meals, exercise, and medication as possible.
- Keep your medications, insulin, syringes, blood testing equipment and some form of fast-acting sugar handy. If you are traveling by plan you may put your medications in your carry-on luggage.
- Store insulin in a refrigerator, but not in the freezer. If there is no possibility to put insulin into a fridge, keep it as cool as possible.
- Store insulin away from light and heat.
- Keep test strips for blood glucose testing away from extreme heat or cold.
- Keep food and snacks handy. Meals may be delayed for reasons you cannot control.
- Plan ahead for changes in mealtimes, especially when crossing two or more time zones.
- Plan times for testing your blood sugar.
- Take an interest in your doctor about medicine for possible vomiting or diarrhea.
- Find out where you can get emergency medical help in areas you travel.
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