Diabetic Hospitalised After Airport Securty Takes Insulin

[Nomad559]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/collapse-on-flight-prompts-needle-warning-to-diabetics/2007/08/19/1187462087961.html

INSULIN-DEPENDENT diabetics have been warned to seek approval to carry life-saving needles and medication onto flights after a man collapsed en route to Sydney.

Under tough new airline security measures, patients must carry documentation to be allowed to take vital supplies onto flights.

A Sydney intensive care physician, Dr George Skowronski, warned diabetics to seek approval from their doctors so they would not risk their lives.

He said a 54-year-old Sydney man was recently forced to fly from Norway to Australia without medication because he did not have a letter from a GP.

"The man's protests were to no avail and he boarded without his insulin," Dr Skowronski wrote in the latest Medical Journal of Australia. During the 25-hour journey to Sydney, the man, an engineer, developed sweating, breathing and urinary problems. He also vomited.

[aquart]

1. Fear is now killing us.

There is no justification for any of this crap, except their inability to admit it was hysteria in the first place. That, and a favor to George.

[Hekate]

2. TSA refuses to even look at my doctor's letter; they open up my equipment & wipe it down

When asked WHAT they are wiping it with, they get real defensive and refuse to say.

Thank gods I do not have to carry needles. That poor man could have died.

Hekate

[Sinistrous]

3. Hmmm. I took a domestic flight just last week

with a full kit in my carry on. TSA looked at it, but gave me no problems. This must have something to do with international flights.

Sinistrous