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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wattywatson900" data-source="post: 240361" data-attributes="member: 40468">Hi there,I am 21 and have Type 1 diabetes. I am currently on my gap year and plan to go travelling in a week for 6 months. I am going to travel Australia and NZ for 3 and a half months and then Thailand for a month and Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia for a total of 1 and a half months. My doctor has advised me to try and take all my diabetes supplies for the whole 6 months with me as gettin hold of supplies, particularly in SE Asia will be a problem.I take novorapid and glargine insulin daily and am aware that both these can only be used a month after being removed from fridge temperatures. I will most likely not be staying in the same place for very long at a time so keeping my insulin at fridge temperature will be a problem. I have some Frio packs which I am told can keep the insulin ok for around a month before it must be used. So my general plan is to try and get hold of a small (so it can fit easily in my rucksack) portable electric coolbox/ fridge that can act as a back up if some of the places I stay in don't have fridges and then whilst im physically travelling, to use the Frio packs or a coolbox with ice packs. Does anyone have any advice as to where I could possibly get such coolboxes and if this would work with the Frios packs whilst travelling etc?Kind Regards, James Watson</blockquote>

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