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To enrich the lives of those living with home IV nutrition or tube feeding through advocacy, education, community and innovation.
To enrich the lives of those living with home IV nutrition or tube feeding through advocacy, education, community and innovation.
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| Resources: Sample Travel Letter for Tube and IV Consumers |
Sample Travel Letters
Click on the links to download a copy of the following sample letters in MS Word; or copy and paste the text below. If you are traveling to a country where English is not commonly spoken, you should consider translating your letter into the native language. Several online translation services are available free of charge. Sample Letter for Tube-fed Consumer (text to copy and paste)Date
To Whom It May Concern:
My patient, patient name , requires specialized nutrition support to sustain his/her life. He/She has an enteral feeding tube placed in his/her abdomen and sustains his/herself by pumping a nutritional formula through this tube.
** If you will need to pump formula during the flight add: Because of his/her medical condition, he/she will need to infuse formula through his/her tube during the flight.
He/She may be traveling with any combination of the supplies listed below:
These supplies are medically necessary and could be difficult to obtain while he/she is away from his/her local physicians and suppliers; therefore I request that he/she be allowed to carry them with him/her .
Please do not hesitate to contact me at (_____) _____ – ________ if you have any questions or need additional information.
Very sincerely, physician’s name physician’s title
Sample Letter for IV-fed Consumer(text to copy and paste)Date
To Whom It May Concern:
My patient, patient name , requires specialized nutrition support to sustain his/her life. He/She has a central venous catheter placed in his/her chest/neck/arm/leg and sustains his/herself by pumping a nutritional formula through this catheter.
** If you will need to infuse during the flight add: Because of his/her medical condition, he/she will need to infuse fluids through his/her catheter during the flight.
He/She may be traveling with any combination of the supplies listed below:
These supplies are medically necessary and will be difficult to obtain while ___he/she___ is away from ___his/her___ local physicians and suppliers; therefore I request that he/she be allowed to carry them with him/her .
Please do not hesitate to contact me at (_____) _____ – ________ if you have any questions or need additional information.
Very sincerely, physician’s name physician’s title |
