The letter should include the following: Your diagnosis of diabetes, your current treatment plan, the name and contact information for your doctor or other health care provider, and any special instructions for your care while traveling.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Having a travel letter can help ensure that you get the care you need while you’re away from home. Be sure to pack it in your carry-on luggage so that it’s easily accessible if you need it.<\/p>\n
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Sample diabetes letter<\/h2>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>The above-named patient has diabetes and is required to manage blood glucose levels daily with <\/span>insulin via an insulin pump<\/a> or injections of insulin.\u00a0 Self-blood glucose monitoring is done several times a day using a glucose meter or by a continuous sensor system.<\/span><\/p>\n The following supplies need to be carried at all times in order to take care of their diabetes:<\/a><\/p>\n This patient\u2019s insulin pump<\/a>, and continuous sensor system if applicable, cannot be exposed to magnetic or x-ray equipment, including a full body scanner.\u00a0 Please have these devices hand-checked by TSA personnel.<\/p>\n If you have any questions or in case of an emergency<\/strong>, call xxx-xxx-xxxx<\/strong> and ask to speak to the endocrinologist on call.<\/p>\n Sincerely,<\/p>\n My Diabetes Team<\/p>\n The opinions expressed here represent the views of a practicing hormone specialist<\/a> (endocrinologist) and must not substitute the advice of your health care provider. This blog post is written for a non-medical audience interested in learning more about hormonal disorders. The author has no commercial conflicts of interest to declare. Also, read our privacy policy.<\/a><\/p>\n If you have diabetes, it’s important to have a travel letter from your doctor. This letter will help you if you need medical care while you’re away from home. The letter should include the following: Your diagnosis of diabetes, your current treatment plan, the name and contact information for your doctor or other health care […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,224,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2915092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-endocrineblog","category-diabetes-patients","category-insulin-pump","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2915092"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4418867,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915092\/revisions\/4418867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2915092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2915092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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