I share a little experience
Trip conditions against
1) As he was invited to a hyperexpontaneous group, 90% of meals, places, times and breaks were unpredictable.
2) The electric refrigerator we carry for the car consumed a lot of battery, so it only works when the car is running.
3) The trip had no previous schedule or idea ... only Brazil without a fixed place.So I could not provide for provisions, etc.
My solutions
1 Have the highest of specific information by hand, without depending on batteries or devices
Then I printed everything
Hydrates counting tables
How many hydrates consume a 15 min walk
How many mg/l low 1 u of insulin
And all the data that I sometimes do not remember or I can doubt at the time.
2 to regulate the risks of hypoglycemia
Carry small fast hydrates like sweet cookies
Small slow hydrates as whole grains
Coca Cola in a container that is not from Coca Cola so that anyone takes it careless (we were 10 little respectful people of the hahaha territories)
3 soluble fiber to add to meals that do not have enough
4 water all the time could to keep the body in good metabolic condition
5 backpacks, a mini and a big one, the little girl for fast walks carry the indispensable, and the big one for when "it is not known" when we returned to the car.
6 If I knew that at night we had dinner in a place where the food was very against diabetes (pizzas for example) made enough gymnastics close to the possible schedule,
7 Take advantage of every moment where you could sleep a little, (travel sections, beach) to regulate the poor quality of sleep
8 Do not use the ice cream makers that I did not have control, (it already happened to me that in a house a visitor changed the insulin and put a frozen bag above spoiling it), and if it is my turn to use it with thermal bags but not to allow so much cold, that is, shelter the insulin inside the refrigerator, or hide it with the vegetables with 10000 labels although no one reads them)
9 sugar overdes
10 Make a pact with the most conscious relative and leave him a duplicate of insulin, papers, emergency sugar etc, and just ask for favors or aid that relative to avoid oblivions or unintentionally carelessness
11 Carry batteries and twice reactive strips of what it usually uses.
What happened
I was never with the food for hours or balanced but still my values were quite well, people never wantedhave at hand.
Sleeping was very complicated and it was what complicated the values most, to bed 5 hours after midnight ... get up early in 3 hours and so for days, that did affected me and more than once I rejected some activity and I stayedSleeping in the car while the family visited a non -priority place for me (I like beaches, but shopping malls or large cities) so take advantage of those visits as sleep recovery.
Not everything was simple to enjoy, the electric refrigerator failed the second night so I had to improvise, I took advantage that a guest was a beer fan and I bought Sixpacks that I was using 1 can as a refrigerant keeping the other 5 together forthat they endured more and gave me good hours of temperature autonomy (it helped that I took a thermometer to verify that it was going well) and that I had carried a second small hand refrigerator then with cold drinks could be acclimatizing to need (which was planned fordo on the beach, but implemented all day)
The enormous temperature ofAuto when he had to turn it off, it was hard to fight
Hotels ice cream shops where the temperature was excessively cold caused me to prefer to use the air conditioning and leave insulin on the floor
Measure the first two days how much glucose lowers me in the sea, I forced myself to return to the beach every half hour for a couple of hours and know the real expense to avoid hypos, and if or do measure myself prior to getting into.
Measure how much I consumed walking on the beach (which is much higher than walking on the regular floor, it is seen that the thighs are used much more)
It was vital for Stress to take music to isolate me when I was angry, I had problems with a couple of passengers from the car and I could not have a mental space of retireI put my music and made me asleep ... indispensable with my character hehehe
Well this are some things that I remember ... I'm going to look for the values that I scored on the trip, somewhere I have them
A hug and I hope it serves some other traveler
Hola, Soy David de Córdoba, Argentina, tengo 40 años y 30 de diabetes.
Uso Lantus y Apidra.