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walk through scanners ok. Xrays not!! so dont disconnect and put it through like your asked to in an airport.

Also those new fuull body scanners at heathrow i believe are xray so you cant go through those either.

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Engineer88 said:
walk through scanners ok. Xrays not!! so dont disconnect and put it through like your asked to in an airport.

Also those new fuull body scanners at heathrow i believe are xray so you cant go through those either.

Does that help?
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Yes it does, thank you. :)
 
Engineer88 said:
walk through scanners ok. Xrays not!! so dont disconnect and put it through like your asked to in an airport.

Also those new fuull body scanners at heathrow i believe are xray so you cant go through those either.

Does that help?
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Hi engineer, I would like to see a picture of these "new full body scanners" as there's no clarity around. We are told to avoid to go through them, but I have never seen a picture and the insulin pump manufacturer should be clearer.
I had last February, for the first time, issues in Heathrow and USA as I was asked to go through one of those scanner, I believed maybe were the new ones. In both cases they said it was safe for insulin pumps. And, I must admit, in USA they are very familiar with insulin pumps. My pump and CGM are still working perfectly but still I would like to get more clarification from manufacturers because this is still a blurred area.


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I'm going from the animas letter which states
"The newest technology in airport security, Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT), is commonly referred to as full body scanner technology, and as noted on the TSA website, (http://www.tsa.gov/assets/pdf/ait_fact_sheet.pdf), is also a form of x-ray. The insulin pump must not be exposed to this type of scanning. "

google for the letter: animas travel letter gives you a print out doc
 
The American full body scanners used by the TSA may be different? The UK ones are by Rapiscan and it looks like they use millimetre frequencies not X rays. So more like a radar, microwave or mobile phone. And safe for people, apparently. But as you are not supposed to have a pump or CGM inside an MRI I think I would skip the body scanners if I wasn't able to remove my gear.

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Thanks for the link Eng! OK putting the TSA sheet together with the BAA page, the US TSA operate two types of scanner, one of which uses X rays, but that type is not used in the UK, we only use the millimetric radar type.

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I called Animas and they basically didn't know about the imaging millimetre wave body scanners used in the UK (and US). They are looking into it and getting back to me.

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Spiker said:
I called Animas and they basically didn't know about the imaging millimetre wave body scanners used in the UK (and US). They are looking into it and getting back to me.

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Spiker, That's exactly why I said it is still a blurred area. At the airport they will tell you they are safe for pumps.


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I think no matter where I go or what type of scanner I'll ask for a manual search to be on the safe side. Don't want to find out the hard way that anything has messed up my pump!
 
they are both strong elctromagnetic fields, which while they may be safe for occaisional short exposure to a human (I sometimes wonder about frequent travellers like myself, but that's a digression) they may not be safe for electronics.

If the manufacturers say do not expose to electromagnetic fields, then I would not chance it myself, whatever the TSA say - they're not going to deal with the consequences of any error.
 
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