Sunday, October 9, 2011

Does Cabin Pressure on Air Flights Affect Insulin Pumps for People with Diabetes?

I just read that "cabin pressure changes during air flights may affect insulin pumps causing patients to receive too much or too little medication." Does anyone have any experience with this?
The article  continues :"Researchers at John Hunter Children’s Hospital in Newcastle, Australia investigated insulin pumps used by patients with type 1 diabetes to deliver insulin. The study, published in the journal Diabetes Care, found that when ten insulin pumps were flown on

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