Downsizing liquid medicines for security?

amanda1024

kuepper said:

amanda1024 said:

If you have the prescription you can take larger amounts of liquids in hand luggage - I have big tubs of cream for eczema, and they just check that the pharmacy sticker on the top matches my name on my passport

Do you just show it to the person who supervises the part where you put your things in a tray? And what about foreign airports?

Yes - you have to take the medicine out separately otherwise it holds things up when they spot it in the x-ray, and it helps to pro-actively flag it rather than just wait for it to be spotted. Foreign airports are often less strict on liquids anyway (recently came back from Naples, for example, and had completely forgotten a big bottle of water I'd meant to empty - but didn't get flagged at all), but if they were looking at liquids the official-looking pharmacy sticker should be enough.