How do diabetics take their insulin and diabetic supplies on planes?
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You should carry your insulin in a bag which maintains a cool temperature. Such bags are widely available. You do not require a physician’s note but it does not hurt to have one stating that you have diabetes just as wearing a diabetes ID bracelet is a good idea as well. Security at airports does not have the right to take away a person’s medications even if that means that you are bringing ‘needles’ aboard an aircraft. The same is true for glucometers. This does not mean that the security people will not wish to go through your carry on bag as they almost certainly will look through it. It only means that after inspecting what you are bringing on board they will not take away your insulin, needles, glucometer, lancets, and so on. You have an absolute right to carry your medical supplies with you without restriction. If security was to take away any of the above they would be legally liable should you have a diabetic problem while on board the aircraft. If I may be of further assistance please let me know. I wish you and your family the very best of health and in all things may God bless.
Here is everything you need to know: http://www.diabetes.org/assets/pdfs/know-your-rights/public-accommodations/fact-sheet-tsa.pdf
Happy traveling!
Hi.
I’m not type one diabetic myself, but my mum is and I have had to help her all the 14 years my life.
When we go on holiday, she carries her insulin and needles in her hand luggage, inside of a pouch with protective gel pads around the outside to keep them cool. You should ALWAYS have some form of proof of why you have possession of needles, such as a doctor’s note or another sort of formal document. But, she has never needed to show it, because they have never picked them up on the scanner, fortunately.. The small bottles of insulin that she has, is kept in her suitcase along with her blood sugar level meter and other needles.
Hope I helped.