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Travelling with diabetes
- Thread starter Roozle
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Hospital diabetes team
I just remembered one more thing.
You can get a sunflower lanyard for hidden disabilities which may help ease any anxiety.
I didn’t have one until I got a pump and then only because the security is different.
You should be able to get them from the airport information desk.
You can get a sunflower lanyard for hidden disabilities which may help ease any anxiety.
I didn’t have one until I got a pump and then only because the security is different.
You should be able to get them from the airport information desk.
Lucyr
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The sunflower lanyards seem to have lost their meaning for hidden disabilities since being taken over to mean mask exempt. I haven’t used it in an airport but in a supermarket no one asks if you need any help when you have a lanyard on now which they did use to do before masks.
PattiEvans
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We travel frequently. I have a sunflower lanyard, purely to avoid hassle with security over my pump. Sometimes I have a better check in experience with it, sometimes not. However, we have been ushered through bypassing the queues for security at Heathrow... but then you have to explain about your pump and despite them being quite common these days some security people seem to find the concept difficult. In Budapest they wanted to swab the cannula.. to my embarrassment it was situated right down near the pubic area.
I carry a letter... right after 9/11 we were checking in at Heathrow to go to San Francisco. I was still on MDI then. As we were checking in the computers went down and so we stood chatting to the check in chap and I mentioned needles and sharps. It turned out he was T1 too, so we had quite a conversation (we were also ex-employees of the airline - no we did not get cheap fares!). Bless him he marked us as "suitable for upgrade" and we were indeed upgraded to club.
I would not worry about flying/security as long as you have your letter and ensure your insulin is never put in the hold. In fact best to keep all your supplies in your hand baggage. To be honest in the present circumstances being diabetic is the least of your worries... getting the paperwork for tests/locator forms correct is far mor of a hassle.
I carry a letter... right after 9/11 we were checking in at Heathrow to go to San Francisco. I was still on MDI then. As we were checking in the computers went down and so we stood chatting to the check in chap and I mentioned needles and sharps. It turned out he was T1 too, so we had quite a conversation (we were also ex-employees of the airline - no we did not get cheap fares!). Bless him he marked us as "suitable for upgrade" and we were indeed upgraded to club.
I would not worry about flying/security as long as you have your letter and ensure your insulin is never put in the hold. In fact best to keep all your supplies in your hand baggage. To be honest in the present circumstances being diabetic is the least of your worries... getting the paperwork for tests/locator forms correct is far mor of a hassle.
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