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War on diabetes: An inside look
Dialysis stops avid traveller from going farther for trips abroad
Madam Tan needs to take 5kg of solution for each day she is away for peritoneal dialysis
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As well as taking her dogs for a walk, 55-year-old Ivy Tan likes to travel and she has been to Malaysia three times in the past year.
She hopes to go further afield, to places such as Bangkok and Jakarta, but there is something holding her back - the 5kg of solution she has to carry with her to treat her diabetes for each day she is away.
