Lense Solution on a Plane

Degag · 23-02-2009 11:52pm #1

Anyone have experience with taking contact lense solution in their hand luggage? Does it come under the items such as deoderant and toothpaste that are contraband?

c - 13 · 24-02-2009 6:04am

You can take it on under the same restrictions as all other liquids.

Personally to avoid the hassle of that what I do is take a few lens containers. Fill them with solution and put them in my carry on bag. Then I just drop my lenses into the containers and give them a swish around.

No ones ever asked any questions about them showing up on the scanner machines.

Degag · 24-02-2009 2:45pm

By that i guess you mean that you'd have to put a few drops in your eye or something? Like how a mother has to test her baby's milk bottle?

Daisies · 24-02-2009 10:36pm

Most shops will have lens solution bottles that are 100mls or less that you can bring on the plane

c - 13 · 25-02-2009 4:29am

Degag wrote: »

By that i guess you mean that you'd have to put a few drops in your eye or something? Like how a mother has to test her baby's milk bottle?

Nope, only ever asked once when I took one out of my pocket and put it in the tray when I was going through a metal detector - Security guard just asked what it was, I told him, he said okay and that was that.

Never been asked to test them or anything.

Myhairspray · 28-02-2009 1:54pm

It's possible to buy small travel kits for contact lenses - available in most opticians, Boots etc. The size of the bottle is small enough to have in Hand Luggage. You can always have the larger bottle of solution in your main luggage.

Myhairspray · 28-02-2009 1:56pm

Bringing the larger bottle of solution in your hand luggage is risky. You might get away with it in some airports but not all.

Red Sleeping Beauty · 05-03-2009 10:55pm

For one it's "lens" solution

And for 2, the whole reason there's these restrictions on liquids is because *apparently* someone tried to get a bomb on a plane in a contact lens solution bottle....

Anyway, as someone has said , usualy rules apply - you can bring any container up to 100ml. Bausch and Laumb do a 100ml bottle I think. The Boots "travel pack" is useless as it's 125ml . Although, the security staff at Dublin Airport aren't as strict as in they don't check the measurements on all bottles but make sure you seperate them out of your hand luggage.

Lense Solution on a Plane

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