Traveling with diabetes: lessons and questions from our first 3 months

[Michel]

My third report:

Effect of 3 months' travel on blood glucose levels (BG): summary

This is the summary of what we have observed over 3 months of itinerant travel this summer with our T1D teen. In a few words: his BG was better while traveling than during the school year. Background When our boy went from a child to a teen (shortly after he turned 12), we saw a radical effect. His time-in-range (70-120) went from 90% to 50%, his SD went from 30 to 50, and he went from no hypos to 15% hypo. During last school year, we were fighting hormonal peaks that would require 15-30 units…