Can you take your BG testing kit in handluggage?

[Grogg1]

So as title says can you carry on and if so do you need to carry a doctors letter or pre-arrange with airline?

 

[Copepod]

There should be no problem. You just tell the screening staff before your bag goes into X ray machine and again if it is hand searched. I've never needed to show the letter written by a hospital clinic nurse years ago. GPs generally charge for writing such a letter, but clinic staff don't.
I would place more than a week or so supply of lancets in hold luggage, as they don't suffer in extreme temperatures.

 

[Martin Canty]

I have not had any problems and can't see why there would be any. Essential to managing our condition.

 

[trophywench]

Test strips don't deteriorate in the hold either, but stick em in the middle of the case, not anywhere touching an edge.

 

[Grogg1]

Just wondered as I know I can't take eyebrow tweezers in hand luggage

 

[Dave W]

Can't see a lancet being regarded as any more dangerous than the plug on a pair of headphones.
However a pack of sandwiches may be!
When we travel I take a small radio transceiver and morse key in my cabin baggage. Never had any problems until last year when my bag went through the scanner, which was paused and there was a lot of confab between staff and finally head honcho arrived and asked me about what was in the bag and could he examine it. Turned out that morse key and leads looked like a switch and sandwiches (which I in the past had carried on my person) displayed as 'organic matter' = something that might go bang!
Head honcho turned out to be an ex-naval radio officer so knew what the radio gear was and we'd a nice chat, but he suggested that in future I keep sandwiches on my person!!

 

[Grogg1]

One time OH hadn't taken out his emergency can of coke - don't ask he has emergency supplies in both cars and his motorbikes! It was picked up on scan and they told him to drink it not waste it. I though had to chuck my teeezers that I had bought in Ibiza in 1984! I loved those teeezers!

 

[Wirrallass]

One year going thru customs I was stopped & had my hand luggage searched after it went thru the x-ray machine. After asking permission to look in my bag the officer took out my two inhalers & asked me what they were. I told him. Maybe he thought I was carrying two small revolvers!

 

[Stitch147]

No problems at all taking test kit through. Mine is in my hand luggage as we speak waiting to go to a sunnier location!

 

[Mark Parrott]

Never had a problem. I take it out of the hand luggage before it goes through x-ray just like I do with any electrical items.

 

[zx10pilot]

All my daily BG Testing equipment (meter, lancets, spare needles & test strips etc) are in my bumbag & it doesn't leave my side except to go through the xray machine. I always mention it to the staff and it's never been a problem.

 

[mikeyB]

Never a problem for me either. As long as you tell folk what it is, it doesn't seem to cause any bother. It's not exactly a rare event, after all.

 

[PhoebeC]

I always get a letter for my Meds. Like others have said, take your tester and Meds out your bag for the X-ray machine and all fine.

Don't have any of your Meds or suppliers in your checked in bag.

When we went through this time there was a boy in front of me with a pump and that arm tester thing. They check him with the hand held beeper thing and all was fine.

Entity your trip!

 

[Lilian]

All meds and equipment come on board with me, just in case my case gets lost. Reminds me of time I was asked to open my case after it had gone through Xray. I was a bit annoyed because it was packed so neatly. The reason was because they saw this thing in my case which they did not know what it was. As soon as they saw it she took it out and asked me what it was. We all had a good laugh when I told her it was a shoe horn. It seems the personnel on the Xray had never heard of one. I thought everyone knew what one was and what it looked like.