• Keep glucose tablets on your person, in your purse where they are easily accessed.
• Keep their watches on home time for the flight duration and until the
  morning after the flight to maintain their normal meal and snack routine;
• Check their glucose blood levels more frequently en route;
• Drink more water or other fluids so you do not become dehydrated;
• Have snacks, glucose testing materials and insulin packed in their carry-on luggage, never stow it in checked baggage;
• Follow the above advise for mitigation of dehydration;
• Avoid in-flight alcoholic beverages [some airline personnel believe that diabetics drinking alcoholic beverages, especially white wine, become demanding and aggressive], diabetics shouldn't be drinking alcohol in the first place;

If you become hypoglycemic:

• Take 1 or 2 Glucose Tabs as soon as you feel simptoms of hypoglycemia coming on.  If you do not have your Glucose tabs with you, drink orange juice, a regular coke or fruit juice immediately as a quick remedy for advanced
  hypoglycemia.
                                     

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