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Guidelines for Insulin Injecting Drivers
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The most frequent means of transportation by which to go on holiday is the car.
As I was reading in the book "Diabetology in Clinic and Practice", 4th edition, Stuttgart, 1999, I found a few guidelines for diabetic drivers, which I found very practical and thought it would be positive to publish them here too.:
- Sufficient amounts of easily digestible carbohydrates (i.e. that take effect quickly) should always be close at hand in the car. The other passenger(s) should also be informed about their location in the car.
- At the slightest suspicion of a hypoglycemia beginning or easing off one should never set out on a journey by car.
- At the slightest suspicion of a hypoglycemia starting while still on the road, one has to stop immediately. The driver must take carbohydrates and wait and see until it surely is over.
- Before driving, the diabetic driver should never inject more insulin than usual, and must continue to strictly obey the prescribed schedule of time for injections of insulin.
- Additionally, one should never eat less carbohydrates than usual, relative to the amount of insulin (that is injected), before setting off on a journey. Recommended is even a slight additional consumption of carbohydrates.
- On especially long travels, the diabetic driver should eat a small snack of some kind about every hour.
- Long nighttime driving and day trips that severely disrupt the daily rhythm should be avoided.
- One should always take along the diabetic ID (possibly a multilingual one).
Translated by Maria Sinnecker, student on the university of Rostock
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