Traveling with Contact Lens Solution
Oct 11, 2008, 10:28 am
#16
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Any further updates on this? I had LASIK about 8 years ago but my vision has deteriorated. So I'm going to the optometrist on Monday to get contacts. It's been at least 10 years since I wore contacts, so I've never had to deal with the liquids nonsense. Do people have trouble carrying saline/disinfectant through security?
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Oct 11, 2008, 6:12 pm
#17
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Absolutely no problems taking saline solution through security. I put it in a separate baggie from other liquids. I've had security stop and look at why I had two baggies and then it was no problem. I've also taken one of the huge bottles of saline solution through and have had no problem with it either.
Oct 11, 2008, 11:11 pm
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Any further updates on this? I had LASIK about 8 years ago but my vision has deteriorated. So I'm going to the optometrist on Monday to get contacts. It's been at least 10 years since I wore contacts, so I've never had to deal with the liquids nonsense. Do people have trouble carrying saline/disinfectant through security?
Oct 16, 2008, 5:08 pm
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Buy upon arrival
If I'm traveling domestically or to Canada, I've taken to waiting until I get to my destination and hit up a pharmacy to buy my contact stuff. I do carry one of the trial sizes of multi-use solution that my optometrist gave me, but I won't use that unless I have to. The price of the stuff just doesn't justify the space and weight they take up now when I travel. If I'm traveling internationally, I will pack my solution in my carryon and show it to the TSA folks. But, I'll still pick up a bottle of saline at a pharmacy and just leave it when I depart.
Mar 2, 2010, 9:32 pm
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reviving the old thread that I found googling for "peroxide contact solutions and TSA"
I normally travel with a 4ox CIBA "clear care" solution bottle. My travel-size clear care bottle had literally 300,000 miles (I refill it from the big bottles) and probably 100+ security checks on in up until the TSA agents at SLC tonight confiscated it because it "tested positive for peroxides".... so I have no idea whether this is a new thing they are checking, or if I just managed to find the only guy in the entire TSA hierarchy that actually checks... but anyway, they took it and now I get to find a drugstore at midnight that's still open when I get to seattle. Stupid TSA and their inconsistencies...
I normally travel with a 4ox CIBA "clear care" solution bottle. My travel-size clear care bottle had literally 300,000 miles (I refill it from the big bottles) and probably 100+ security checks on in up until the TSA agents at SLC tonight confiscated it because it "tested positive for peroxides".... so I have no idea whether this is a new thing they are checking, or if I just managed to find the only guy in the entire TSA hierarchy that actually checks... but anyway, they took it and now I get to find a drugstore at midnight that's still open when I get to seattle. Stupid TSA and their inconsistencies...
Mar 3, 2010, 8:00 am
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reviving the old thread that I found googling for "peroxide contact solutions and TSA"
I normally travel with a 4ox CIBA "clear care" solution bottle. My travel-size clear care bottle had literally 300,000 miles (I refill it from the big bottles) and probably 100+ security checks on in up until the TSA agents at SLC tonight confiscated it because it "tested positive for peroxides".... so I have no idea whether this is a new thing they are checking, or if I just managed to find the only guy in the entire TSA hierarchy that actually checks... but anyway, they took it and now I get to find a drugstore at midnight that's still open when I get to seattle. Stupid TSA and their inconsistencies...
I normally travel with a 4ox CIBA "clear care" solution bottle. My travel-size clear care bottle had literally 300,000 miles (I refill it from the big bottles) and probably 100+ security checks on in up until the TSA agents at SLC tonight confiscated it because it "tested positive for peroxides".... so I have no idea whether this is a new thing they are checking, or if I just managed to find the only guy in the entire TSA hierarchy that actually checks... but anyway, they took it and now I get to find a drugstore at midnight that's still open when I get to seattle. Stupid TSA and their inconsistencies...
I travel with ClearCare all the time also and have only been stopped once. I put all my contact supplies in a separate zip lock bag from my toiletry one and out them both through the scanner. The one time I was stopped the agent told me one bag per pax and I actually needed to have them call a supervisor to tell this woman that contact solutions did not count.
Mar 5, 2010, 8:50 am
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Can't speak on the type of solution, yet generic saline for B&L can be purchased in "airline friendly" specific sizes (labled as such on the packaging). Usually either saline-only, or zip-bag, case, saline and wetter. 3oz would last me at least a week, and all it really has to last is the flight down. Just about any product is available now in <100ml/3oz.
Dec 10, 2010, 4:44 am
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Clear Care taken at DEN
I had my Clear Care rejected and taken by TSA for the first time last night in Denver. It was properly packed in the 1 quart bag, but it was flagged in the x-ray machine. The test strip turned blue, and I was told that Federal law prohibited any hydrogen peroxide on the plane.
I had taken it many times before, including the previous morning on the flight from BWI to DEN. It had been flagged and tested once before in TPA, but they let me take it with me.
I can't find anything on the TSA or FAA sites that mentions Clear Care or even hydrogen peroxide, but I am still looking. Will post an update if I find anything.
I had taken it many times before, including the previous morning on the flight from BWI to DEN. It had been flagged and tested once before in TPA, but they let me take it with me.
I can't find anything on the TSA or FAA sites that mentions Clear Care or even hydrogen peroxide, but I am still looking. Will post an update if I find anything.
Dec 10, 2010, 6:15 am
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I had my Clear Care rejected and taken by TSA for the first time last night in Denver. It was properly packed in the 1 quart bag, but it was flagged in the x-ray machine. The test strip turned blue, and I was told that Federal law prohibited any hydrogen peroxide on the plane.
I had taken it many times before, including the previous morning on the flight from BWI to DEN. It had been flagged and tested once before in TPA, but they let me take it with me.
I can't find anything on the TSA or FAA sites that mentions Clear Care or even hydrogen peroxide, but I am still looking. Will post an update if I find anything.
I had taken it many times before, including the previous morning on the flight from BWI to DEN. It had been flagged and tested once before in TPA, but they let me take it with me.
I can't find anything on the TSA or FAA sites that mentions Clear Care or even hydrogen peroxide, but I am still looking. Will post an update if I find anything.
Dec 10, 2010, 7:52 am
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You might find some useful information re. Clear solution in this thread in the Travel Safety/ Security forum. Basically, it seems the TSA prohibits hydrogen-peroxide and contact lense solutions containing hydrogen-peroxide.