All you jetsetters...for medication do you suggest 'Hold' or 'Hand'? Meds not needed throughout the journey from A to B, only during our holiday stay and all are oral. Ok the list is:
Methotrexate, Folic Acid, Hydroxychloroquine Sulphate, Ferrous Fumerate, Tranexamic Acid, Liquifilm Artificial Tears, Ibuprofen and Paracetamol - all on prescription.
Vitamin D, Vitamin K, and Fish Oils - all bought over the counter.
Looking for the most hassle free way, but doing everything by the book.
I think tablets are ok but liqufilm artificial tears might need to go in with your liquids bag . Have a lovely holiday 🌞
Thanks weathervane, as I always understood it liquids over 100ml can be carried in the 'Hold'. I always bag up shampoos etc. regardless of liquid amount and pop in the 'Hold'. Any liquid I need with me at all times I tend to carry with me in no more than a 100ml bottle. I really wanted to know if I have to declare all medication.
I have no medication over 100ml apart from 20 fish oil capsules in a huge tub (original packaging over 100ml size, not contents). If I feel I could miss any of my meds if necessary (go missing) just as we all do occasionally, am I actually allowed to carry them in the 'Hold' undeclared. The various websites can be a bit of a minefield and contradictory.
All in your hand luggage. Normally you are allowed an extra pouch for médecines, so doesn't have to squish into the 20x20 bag for liquids.
This is the easyJet guidance, and each airline will have similar. I've always found that a pouch with the stuff in it and a prescription is all that's needed. If asked I would say that it's needed during the journey, but have never been asked!
"You can take any medicines and medical equipment that you need to have with you. This includes gel packs or cooler bags to maintain the temperature of your medication, food and specialist devices such as dialysis machines (subject to size regulations), CPAP machines and nebulisers.
If you’re taking medicine on board, you must also provide a doctor’s certificate confirming the type of medication and what it is used for. You’ll also be able to bring liquid medicines larger than 100ml through security if you have a doctor’s certificate."
It really does depend on the country you are going to , i never have any bother with spain , but i know Turkey and Egypt can be very strict with pain killers. I hope you get sorted alright as it ia a worry 😀
Heading for Majorca. Whenever I have looked online or asked a question it's assumed people want to keep their meds with them, I don't particularly need to. I'd prefer everything in the hold but no one ever mentions hold.
Very cold...can get to freezing point. So only things you would be happy to pop in freezer. And if you are happy to risk losing the meds and no liquids/injections then nothing stopping you putting the rest in the hold.
As agedcrone mentioned it is safer to put essential meds in hand luggage as cases can go missing and you may not get them for days . As regards the hold , I think you can put any legal meds in your case . It’s usually hand luggage that people worry about 😀
I once sat on a plane next to a large lady with a live chicken in a sack...the chicken was better behaved than the lady as at least it shut up eventually. Admittedly it was a tiny plane hopping between islands in Caribbean some 50 years ago so security rules were unheard of.
Yes, but I have happy memories of different times when I was young enough not to give a hoot about safety!
It's fine AgedCrone, I have been travelling for forty years but rules keep changing. I'm only going to Majorca so nowhere far flung, but I like to check each time in case I have missed something or I have a new med.
It wasn’t Philippine Airway was it?saw the same thing on a flight HK to Manila!
Wow AgedCrone I think you're posting on the wrong website. This discussion has taken quite a different turn which doesn't bother me in the least, but it is hardly what I thought this site was about.
In hand luggage. for your other luggage can get lost in system and then you are then without any. Do check with that countries laws on what you can and can't take thou but otherwise enjoy your holiday
Here is a laugh on luggage. In the hold, a gf an I were booking a holiday so we decided to buddy pack so that in the event they lost our luggage we were not stranded as it was a short weekend trip. Low and behold her bag was sent to the wrong destination. Customs stopped me, asked me if I had packed my own 💼. Of course I said. He asked me to unzip and started searching through when he cane to a ladies 👙 and underwear, he looked at me and said “I asked you if you packed your 💼 sir” I did not know what to say so for a laugh I just told him that I was a cross dresser, he was lost for words and let me go 😝
😂😂😂😂😂
Definitely in hand luggage. Even in a simple journey hold luggage can get lost or delayed. Last year on a flight from Edinburgh to Tennerife my case took 3 days to arrive. I had to do without my meds until my case arrived.
C'est la vie...All in the hold, if it goes missing it goes missing.
I’m howling with laughter here! 😂😂😂
Definitely hand luggage. On a recent trip to London, my elderly mum wanted to put her meds in her hold baggage, including her insulin which could have frozen in the hold, and I had to extract them from her case and put them in my own hand baggage. And guess what? Her case went missing! I always take my prescription meds in my hand baggage, but supplements go in my suitcase.
When I was on a flight my hand luggage was too heavy as I had motorbike boots and full leathers, I ended up wearing them to get them in the plane and it was so hot
You could always stuff the chicken haha! 😂 OMG!
You really must take them with you in your hand luggage, whether or not you need them on the journey. Back in 2003 we went on holiday to Italy and even then I had a lot of medication (I have a lot more now) so I put them into a large zip-up bag in my hand luggage. Thank goodness I did, because when we arrived in Milan, my case wasn't there. It was an awful experience, especially as it was only the second time I had been abroad and didn't know much about traveling. If I hadn't had my medication with me, I really don't know what I would have done.
Because of using up all the space in my case, I had put my toiletries into my son's case so all I had with me was my medications, toiletries, a book, my camera and the clothes I stood up it. We didn't know if the case would arrive and as we were on a touring holiday and moving from place to place we didn't know if the case would turn up at all. I remember saying that I would never fly again. The following day, when we should have been on a boat trip, we had to find a few small shops for me to buy some underwear, a pair of trousers, two t-shirts and a pair of sandals. Thank goodness though and what a relief it was when the case arrived on the third day of our holiday. Since then, when we fly anywhere, I always pack mine and my husband's clothes together in two cases so that we have some of our clothes in each case.
I have to say it did spoil my holiday quite a bit but I can't stress enough just how important it is to keep your medication with you at all times.
Well, in the end I threw everything into the suitcase, said nothing, I even managed to leave my camcorder and battery in the suitcase, a no no but all ok. Funnily enough I got stopped at the boarding gate and I was asked to see a member of staff as the security tags had come loose on my case? I just had to confirm that it was my case at the door of the plane. I asked the guy for reassurance that my case would be safely reunited with me at my destination. He very kindly told me that he would load the case himself. Anyway here I am tucked up in bed in a very swish hotel abroad.
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