Managing Chronic Conditions While Travelling

Managing a chronic condition while travelling means keeping it controlled, with the right supplies to hand and treatment within anti-doping rules, as athletes with diabetes, asthma or allergy cross time zones to camps and competitions.

Medication timing across time zones, insulin above all, is the recurring challenge, and exercise, heat and altitude add to it. Most problems are avoidable, so a short pre-travel review by the sport and exercise medicine (SEM) clinician is time well spent.