Travel Guidance for People with Diabetes; A Narrative Review

Diabetes is a disease which occurs by lack of insulin production or its inappropriate function. patients with diabetes who take insulin suffer from high blood sugar and face unique challenges while travelling as their schedules for insulin dosage and blood sugar regulation change. therefore they need to organize carefully how they have to travel, instruments they should take, the actions they must accomplish and vigilances they have to regard.patients with diabetes have to prepare a list consist of type and dosage of medicines they should take and tools they must carry which their doctor advice. although there are general advices for all patients with diabetes, every single one need specific observations according to his/her physic and health level. patients with diabetes must gather information about the destination and draw a whole image of the travel in order to take the stress out as much as possible. meanwhile they should take all kind of vaccines according to their destination regional epidemiology at least four weeks before. special diets and physical actions have to be considered as well and patients must match the taking of insulin with the destination time and also mind the direction of traveling (north, south, west or east) which will be described as following article.