Safe travel tips for the diabetic patient
A long-distance trip should be a journey to independence, not a shortcut to poor metabolic control.
Your help ahead of time can make your patient's travel safe and pleasurable. Must diabetes chain its victims to hearth and home? It's true that managing the disease necessitates strict schedules, close monitoring, and precise treatment. All this may discourage dreams of traveling, but it needn't mean that diabetic patients never get to see the world.
As educators we are used to teaching patients how to get along at home.
