Allowed to bring regular milk on flight for toddler?

[Anonymous]

I just looked at TSA website and it states you can bring breast milk or formula...I am assuming they won't know the difference if it is cow's milk or not? I haven't flown in awhile and I am flying by myself with my 19 month old and I'm 6 months pregnant so I don't want any problems!

[Anonymous]

yes, I traveled in the summer to Asia and brought on board a large (32 oz?) parmalat milk. I showed it to the TSA agent and had no problems. It was definitely necessary since the flight (United) only had reduced fat milk on board.

[Anonymous]

Yes, if asked I would just say it is breastmilk. I mean how will they know- they are NOT going to taste it

[Anonymous]

Just buy it in the airport.

[Anonymous]

Question: How do you keep the milk cold for that lenght of time? That is a long time to keep milk out of the referigerator

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question: How do you keep the milk cold for that lenght of time? That is a long time to keep milk out of the referigerator

When I took breast milk on, I put it in a little soft cooler with an icepack. They didn't question it.

[Anonymous]

You are allowed a small amount of milk and juice, if traveling with a small child. They don't specify what the small amount is, but I've flown with a juice box and 1-2 boxes of milk. I would buy boxed milk that doesn't need refrigeration. I've had ice packs confiscated before.

[Anonymous]

If you don't want to bring boxed milk, but are worried about the ice packs. You could always bring extra ziplocs and fill them with ice from a drink machine in the terminal if the ice packs are confiscated.

[Anonymous]

parmelot doesnt need refrigeration.

[Anonymous]

Whole milk should be refrigerated, but I read it can be without refrigeration for up to 2 hours...so even if your icepacks or cooler bag fail start to defrost, you should still have a 2 hour window to use it.

I also found that putting the whole milk in the sippy cup is more "convincing", but my DH thought it wasn't necessary since having our DS in tow was convincing enough.