Can I take ice blocks through airport security to keep medecine cool?

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We are going to Italy in about 10 days time. DS is on amoxycillin, and will need to be the whole time we are away. We will need to take two bottles of 100ml through airport security. One open bottle - and one to start later in the week. They will need to be kept cool. the bottles are small enough to comply with liquid security restrictions (100 ml), but what about ice blocks? Can I take ice blocks through security to keep the meds cool?

Don't know the answer I'm afraid but would the plane staff perhaps put the bottles in the fridge for you for the duration of the flight?

I don't know if this is any help, but we had this a couple of years ago with DD1. It was just a cool issue so no planes involved BUT the pharmacy gave us the powder unmixed so that we could mix up the medicine ourselves at our destination. They gave us VERY clear instructions but I'm still not sure it was really allowed. Worth a try though.

Can't take ice blocks through security I'm afraid - they are filled with either gel or water which are both banned.

We took insulin through security in a frio cool bag the other week.

Keep a letter from doctor with it and you should have no problems.

could you not take the opened one with you as hand luggage (and ask staff to pop it in the fridge, or for some ice in a glass to keep cool) and then pack the other bottle in your checked in luggage? you could then put it in a cool bag, with some ice blocks, inside your suitcase, and all should be well?

I have taken dd1's supplements (various, due to gut issues) most of which have to be kept cool, in an insulated lunchbag with flexible ice packs before (in suitcase)

We did it recently. TBH it hadn't even occurred to me. We had 2 ice bocks in a cool bag. Also had a letter from the doc. Ours had to be taken on as hand luggage (v. fragile). In your case, if it's just AB's, i'd either
-put it in hold luggage where it'll be cold anyway OR
-ask stewards to put it in fridge, Or
-not worry about it, the 1st bottle will surely be almost empty anyway, and the 2nd still dry powder so not need to be chiled

Make your own freeze pack out of 100 ml travel bottles then you know you are in your limit (I use 3 old yoghurt drink bottles). Then, once through security, I take a spare ziploc bag to E.A.T or some other food place and ask them to put ice into it. That usually is enough to get us through our journey.

Cheers ladies.

We went out for the day on Sunday and I took DS's ABs in a cool bag with one of those wine bottle-wrap-around cool wraps (Completley sealed and stitched, so I reckoned OK with airport) - and managed to freeze the medecine - so back to GP for another bottle.

Persuaded the pharmacist to give us a bottle of dry ABs to mix up when we get to Italy, so that can go in hold luggage. The open/nearly empty bottle can go as hand luggage, wrapped in cold flannels, which is civil aviation authority advice.

My Mum wraps her Insulin in a special cool wrap whic I assume is similar to the Frio. Virgin have always refused to put her Insulin in the fridge