infant formula in hand luggage

[Roskvawantingsomesunshine]

Does anyone know how understanding easyjet and airport security people at Bristol airport are towards infant formula/bottles of water? DD is on nutramigen formula, which cannot be made up long in advance. She will need one feed during the flight if it is on time, and I want to have spare available in case of delays. She has nutramigen on prescription, so would it be worth asking my doctor for a letter to say that the formula, and the water I need to make it is a health requirement?

I think it's fine to take it on as long as you're prepared to taste it in front of staff going through security.

The problem is, if I make it up going to go through security, it may be no good by the time I need to feed her, ifyswim. If the flight is on time we will be going through seccurity around 10 am and I won't actually feed her until inflight, about 2 hours later. Nutramigen doesn't keep that long made up! Do you think I could make up a sample to demonstrate?

the rules are a bit more flexible...i think they may just ask you to 'test' the water you are going to use for making up the feed

I hope so - I'm having nightmares about this already, and we've got a month to go before we take off!

I think I remember it being on the news that they had relaxed the rules, and you could take medicines with a note from doctor, and baby milk on board.

If it's not too much hassle, I'd get a note from the doctor/hv just to be on the safe side.

From watching 'airport' on telly, what they say over the phone to customers isn't always what they apply when you actually get there.

I flew from bristol with easyjet yesterday and they let lady in front through with 2 bottles of infant formula no problem - no tasting or anything-just in clear plastic bag. But agree that you should prob get something from doc just in case

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what kind of water do you need? Could you use Evian bought after security? Isn't Evian low enough in minerals to be safe for babies?

If not, and you need to bring cooled boiled water or similar, then I would get a doctor's letter to say the formula can't be pre-made. They do allow infant formula, juice etc "sufficient for the flight", provided you can test each bottle, but I can't for the life of me find anything about water. I would imagine it would be ok, but sometimes you just get a right a'se on security. Better to have the letter just in case I think.

At home I use boiled cooled water but I use Evian when we're out and about. A friend of mine got caught out assuming that she she would be able to buy evian in the departure lounge at Cardiff airport, but the shop had sold out of it. Cafes and restaurants use big water boilers, so any boiled water from them is unlikely to have been freshly boiled - it could have been bubbling away for hours!

Volvic is also low in sodium I believe, as is Highland Spring. I think you're supposed to look for a sodium content of less than 10mg. "Spring" water rather than mineral water is often better.

If I were travelling, I'd take my own water in bottles and offer to test it, but if they still confiscated, then the bottled water could be used as back up.

I took an empty sterilised bottle and formula in seperate container and got boiled water from flight attendants once on the flight