The following information applies to airports in all 50 United States and was supplied to the American Diabetes Association.

1. Because of concerns over forgeries, prescriptions and doctors’ letters are not sufficient to allow people with diabetes to carry syringes and other equipment on board.
2. Passengers may board with syringes and other insulin delivery systems only if they can produce a vial of insulin with a professional, pharmaceutical pre-printed label that clearly identifies the medication. NO EXCEPTIONS WILL BE MADE. Since the prescription label is on the outside of the box, it is recommended that passengers refrain from discarding their insulin box and come prepared with their vial of insulin in its original pharmaceutically labeled box.
3. Passengers who have diabetes not requiring insulin but who need to test their blood glucose may carry their lancets on board as long as the lancets are capped and are brought on with a glucose meter that has the name embossed on the meter eg ‘One Touch’, ‘Accucheck’.
4. Glucagon should be kept in its original pre-printed pharmaceutically labeled container.

Source: IDDT International.