The Madrid Javier Pérez has started a return to the world of a year, a period in which he intends to demonstrate that those who suffer from diabetes, like him, can do anything they propose as long as they follow some guidelines and adequate controls.
Javier Pérez, diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2001, has the collaboration of its association, the Association of Diabetics of Madrid, which facilitates its network of contacts with similar associations abroad and resolves doubts about diabetes that may arise in theTrip, and with the support of the health care company Novo Nordisk.
His particular return to the world with diabetes has begun with a flight between Madrid and Quito, from where the young man and a companion will undertake a tour by public transport through six South American countries before addressing French Polynesia on the way to New Zealand and Australia.As of April 2015, his return to the world with diabetes will continue for more than a dozen Asian countries until he returns to Spain in November of that year.
Javier Pérez's luggage for the return to the world includes cold conservation cases of insulin administration devices, but only part of the dose of this one that will need, given the impossibility of loading with all of them.His travel plan provides periodic meetings with friends who, from Spain, will be supplied by the rest of the dose.What will always carry on top is a medical certificate, in Spanish and English, to ensure the passage with customs insulin and airport security controls.
Of the two factors that contribute to the adequate control of diabetes, physical exercise and a balanced diet, Javier Pérez is guaranteed the first for the duration and rhythm of the trip itself.Regarding food, it will try to balancing, like all people with type 1 diabetes, the amount of carbohydrates that consumes with that of insulin administered in order to minimize the risk of hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia.
The latter usually occur when people with diabetes do not compensate for the reducing effect of insulin glucose level with the intake of sufficient carbohydrates or practice too much exercise.Just in case, Javier Pérez also carries sugar, glucose gels and even glucagon, an injectable that quickly raises the glucose level in case of serious hypoglycemia.His companion in his return to the one -year -old world has knowledge about the administration of all this in case his assistance was needed.
The return to the world of Javier Pérez can be followed through the posts that he will write in a blog created by his companion ( Link from which he will also offer, through anotherSection, tips based on their experience to other travelers with diabetes ( Link them, the convenience, as he has done, of doing the appropriate blood analysis before leaving to contrast them with others planned when he returned.