Traveling with Diabetes: A Guide for Every Trip, Chapter 1: Traveling with Confidence

Welcome to Traveling Well

You will learn what this course covers and who it is built to help.

Understand what this course covers and who it is designed to help.

Traveling Well is for adults living with diabetes or prediabetes. It is also for the people who travel with them.

Trips can bring up questions about supplies, meals, sleep and security lines. This course answers those questions one part at a time.

You do not need to be an expert to use it.

A map with a road from a house to a red pin. Stops appear along the road for supplies, meals, sleep and timing. In the last view each stop gets a tick and a suitcase arrives at the pin.

The course follows a trip from start to finish. Each chapter covers one part, from planning to the trip home.

Chapters move from planning and packing to airports, time zones, food and hiking. Reading them in order helps most, because each lesson builds on the one before.

Your doctor sets your personal targets. A target is the blood sugar range your doctor picks for you.

Your targets may differ from someone else's, even on the same trip.

This course gives general travel facts. It supports your doctor's advice without replacing it.

Key takeaways

  • This course is for adults with diabetes or prediabetes and their travel companions.
  • Each chapter covers one part of a trip, and reading in order helps most.
  • Your doctor sets your personal targets, and this course supports that advice.

Try it

Jot down one trip you hope to take, the month you might go, and one worry you have about it.

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