We just traveled through Heathrow last week, and security there confiscated my wife's contact lens solution (about 6 oz.) When I told the security person that saline solution was considered a medical solution and subject to an exception, she told me that there was no exception at Heathrow unless my wife had a prescription for her contact lens solution on her.

Has anyone heard of this? Is it a change to policy? Or was this inspector just talking out of her nether yay-uh?