Taking Prescription Drugs On Long-Haul Flight

[mattylad]

Just make sure they are clearly marked with your prescription details on.

 

[SFK]

Suggestion.... in addition to your hand luggage, always put a small collection of your meds in your hold check-in luggage and leave them there for whole trip.

Means if you loose hand luggage on way out you have some meds ready to go for a couple of days when you land.

And during trip you have them as backup incase first lot go missing.

And means not looking for a chemist in a panic, in foreign city on a Sunday night.

Sfk

 

[crystal ball]

Suggestion.... in addition to your hand luggage, always put a small collection of your meds in your hold check-in luggage and leave them there for whole trip.

Means if you loose hand luggage on way out you have some meds ready to go for a couple of days when you land.

And during trip you have them as backup incase first lot go missing.

And means not looking for a chemist in a panic, in foreign city on a Sunday night.

Sfk

Good idea, never thought about losing hand luggage, just flown back from Munich and a very distraught woman along with cabin crew were searching for her carry on case

 

[securespark]

Turn up in parts of the Middle East with any opiate based medicine, you may end in jail.

Yeah, that's what I'm worried about.

I found this:

If I were only transferring in the Middle East, I guess I'd still need to check with the embassy. Certainly don't want to risk arrest.

 

[SFK]

If going through the middle east best to check that you are not carrying Codine.

Codine+Paracetamol tablets that are off the shelf in UK, are seen as being a controlled medicine in ME.

 

[opps]

Sorry, not banned for use, I meant banned from being sold over the counter and are prescription only. You can only buy the gel over the counter in the U.K. now.

Fair play, I don't recall it being available over the counter.

You are correct though, oral diclofenac was available over the counter up until Jan 2015. They made it POM following reviews by the EU which found that in some cases, it can lead to heart problems.

Diclofenac tablets now only available as a prescription medicine

People will no longer be able to purchase diclofenac tablets, used to treat pain and inflammation, from pharmacies without a prescription from their doctor due to the small risk of heart problems.

www.gov.uk

 

[Mottie]

following reviews by the EU which found that in some cases, it can lead to heart problems.

Strange that you can still buy it over the counter in Spain though. Last time I looked, Spain was in the EU.

 

[opps]

Strange that you can still buy it over the counter in Spain though. Last time I looked, Spain was in the EU.

I was unaware of that.

AFAIK, the decision to make them POM over here was not an EU directive, it was a loose recommendation. Even with directives, each member state has a degree of "interpretation" of the directive.

Going back to the pet supplements that we used to import. The previous wannabe distributor had been based in Germany and had loads of issues importing the supplements (and eventually gave up). We, on the other hand, seldom had any problems. We did however find that the chief vets at sea ports were more generous in their interpretation of the rules than the chief vets at the airports.