Home Medical Equipment for Travel Needs

If you’re living with a long-term medical issue or chronic illness, we hope you’ve found all the Tampa home medical supplies you need to make your living space—and your life—as free and comfortable as possible.

But freedom also means the freedom to travel, and you deserve to get out, visit friends and family, and enjoy new places (especially during the heat of a Tampa Bay summer). 

Still, travelling with a chronic medical issue can be daunting. You have long time periods of limited movement. And you also face new spaces, beds, chairs, showers, and bathrooms that may not be properly suited to your medical needs.

The inability to cope with new places can be frustrating and even embarrassing. But it shouldn’t be. Whatever your needs, and wherever you’re going, Helios provides Tampa home medical equipment that can ease your travel to anywhere else, too. 

Compression Garments for Car and Plane Travel

Whether you travel by car or plane, you can be forced to sit for long periods of time. This lack of movement can result in blood pooling in your extremities. Planes can be especially problematic because you sit very upright with your feet much lower than your heart. 

Even people with no other circulatory problems can suffer excess swelling from travel. If you have venous insufficiency, lymphedema, are pregnant, or have other issues with swelling and fluid retention, travel can cause discomfort and even more serious issues.

Properly fitted compression garments are an easy, low-tech, non-medication way to deal with travel-related swelling. Even if you don’t rely on these garments in day-to-day life, they can vastly improve your travel experience.

Mobility Travel Aids

Mobility can be one of the leading causes of uncertainty when traveling, especially if you’re facing a new limitation on your strength or balance. If you’re not a wheelchair user, these tools can help. 

• Folding stools: For those who have difficulty being on their feet for long periods of time, tripod folding stools can supply much-needed rest wherever you are.
• Standing aids: These simple frames can be set up next to hotel beds, toilets, chairs, and anywhere else you might need a stable support for standing up.

Travel ADLs: Aids for Daily Living

There are many innovative ADL tools available to help you through a variety of mobility, balance, flexibility, and fine-motor-function daily tasks. Of course, if you’re traveling, you might have the option of choosing to take some essentials and leave others at home. Here are some of the most useful ADLs for travelling.

• Grabbers: Whether getting the cereal off the refrigerator, picking up your wallet from the floor, or retrieving the hotel TV remote without getting out of bed, grabbers expand your accessibility and minimize your risk, effort, and frustration.
• Cutlery: Rarely will you find adaptive silverware on the road. A spoon, knife, and fork that suit your grip or motor skills—large handles, heavier or more lightweight—will ease mealtime and are small and lightweight to pack.
• Pads and pillows: Comfort and health on long flights and in new beds and chairs can be improved with the right pads and pillows. Inflatable seat cushions are especially compact and adaptable. 
• Pillboxes: A daily necessity, pillboxes for travel allow you to maintain your medication schedule despite a whole new routine. Variations allow you to adapt for how often you need medication, where you need to carry it, fine motor limitations, and other factors.

Incontinence Supplies for Travel

Incontinence is a sensitive but important condition to manage while traveling. Please know that there are many resources available to allow you to travel comfortably and without accidents throughout your journeys.

• Incontinence underwear: The terrific selection of discrete, absorbent, and effective incontinence underwear today suit every body type. Once you’ve found the brand, style, and size that work best for you, stock up on additional incontinence wearables for your travels.
• Incontinence pads: Accidents on chairs and beds happen. Pads are an easy, versatile, low-profile, and compact tool to contain accidents wherever you go.

For more information and help with your future travels, please visit Helios or reach out at https://helioshme.com/contact.