Flying with EpiPen

[Anonymous]

Could someone please confirm that I can fly with an epipen (carry-on luggage)? We recently got it prescribed for our child. I tried checking the TSA website for confirmation, but no success... Thanks.

[Anonymous]

My brother has to fly with syringes and needles (he has MS). He has never been stopped, but he travels with his prescription and a doctors note just in case.

[Anonymous]

Frequent Flyer with an epipen (for me) here. Just toss it out in the open in the little bin with your baggie of gels, laptop, whatever, and they will not give you any problems. Mine is in a little green case (which came with it) that says epipen. I've only had someone open it once, and it was when they were training a new guy and wanted to show him what it looked like.

[Anonymous]

OP here--Thanks so much!

[Anonymous]

We've always had one in our carry-on luggage for DS. Never a problem. I'd make sure you have the prescription label on it, just in case. (In other words, if the label is on the box, bring the pens in the box with the label on it, rather than carrying just the pens.)

[Anonymous]

We've flown a million times in the past 10 years with my daughter's EpiPens, both domestic and international. Never a problem, though I agree it is a good idea to have the prescription label. It is at nuisance to carry the box, though. Instead, we've had the pharmacist print us out a couple of extra labels that we put on the carrying tubes. We do that for camps, too, when meds are required to contain their original labels.

We did once have to have a little talk about the bottle of liquid antihistamine, but it was no big deal. Nowadays we carry either Benadryl strips (not liquid) or the Perfect Measure single-use spoons, which only hold one dose and therefore are below the TSA threshold.

[Anonymous]

I didn't know about the perfect measure...

[Anonymous]

The Perfect Measure spoons are fabulous. I longed for these for years - we have to use liquid Benadryl because it works faster than the pills, but it's really hard to carry around a big bottle (which often leaked). They're very hard to find in local pharmacies, but I've gotten them online from both drugstore.com and amazon. Our allergist also gave us the ok to use the strips, which dissolve in the mouth and are small and super easy to carry, but taste vile.