Travelling abroad with 5month old..can i take a flask of boiling water through security

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I obviously need to have the means to make Ds milk when in airport/on plane. He can’t have ready made milk as it gives him a gut ache. Meaning I will need access to boiling water and pre portioned formula. Can I bring a flask of water and pre measured milk tubs through security? Panicking!

Hi! I've literally just come back from flying with my 5 month old. We had no issues taking any of our bottle making equipment - flask was full, bottle of cooled boil water was full as well as half an already made bottle that my DD didn't finish. Absolutely no issues going through security so you should be fine! Like others said, they might scan it separately but all was fine. .

If you do face any issues though, then you could always get the hot water on the other side of security from a coffee shop :)

Enjoy your holiday when it comes!

This is the advice in the UK. In other places with good trustworthy medical services, and the same safety standards for formula, like France, they risk assess a little differently and advise making up feeds just before using them, with either bottled water that’s got a good balance of minerals for babies (i.e. not too much sodium), or with tap water as long as it’s deemed safe by the local water board. I think the amount of time they recommend you can keep formula once it’s made up might be shorter than in the UK and they recommend keeping opened bottles of water in the fridge.
I reckon the risk assessment in France works out differently because they are not a nation of tea drinking where everyone has a kettle and is used to dealing with boiling water safely, and so the risk of burns from recommending using boiling water is higher than the risk of a baby getting sick from potential bacterial contamination of the formula.

Yes you can take it through, we did it the other week.
you can also buy a Nuby rapid cool that you can bring formula down to drinkable temp in 2 mins and just rinse out and clean with sterilising tablets.

My kids are much older, so no this not recent experience, but I have on occasions been asked to drink water I was taking for the kids and taste sachets of baby food when travelling through Manchester with a baby. We were flying long haul and they literally made me open every other sachet of food, so then most of the open ones went in the bin. More often they would just let you take it, no questions asked. I would take the boiling water and have a plan B of getting boiling water somewhere like Starbucks if they make you taste it.