Daily contact lenses in carry on bag

Will not be a problem.

No problem. You might have to put them in your liquids ziploc bag, but they will fit.

contacts and solution are considered under the medical exception. You will have to put them in a plastic bag but they aren't part of the liquids that have to fit in a 1 qt bag - they can be separate.

Does this mean you can take the regular sized bottle of solution (12 oz)?

My son and daughter both wear contact lenses and need not only their cleaning solution but saline solution as well.

I always take a small solution bottle - I honestly don't know about the size. Go on the tsa.gov website and it should tell you.

Thanks for all your replies. I'm more confident now about taking these on board and will plan to do this.

As for the size of saline solution bottles....I'm not aware of anything for sale under 4 oz which would be too large for Air France's regulation of 3 oz or less. But, I can always buy saline where I'm going.

Bausch & Lomb, RENU comes in a 2oz, available at WalMart. For our daughter that's more than enough for 2 weeks with her daily wears. The contacts (1 pair a daily plus a few extra) and the saline will go in her medicines ziploc.

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You can carry 2-3 pairs of contact lenses in your carry on, which is supposed to be enough to get through the flight and tide you over if your luggage goes astray. More lenses than that need to in your checked luggage.

Fluid must be in containers less than 100mL. A real pain for people like me who have allergies to most fluids and can't find saline or disinfectant in small sizes. And you can't put fluid in smaller containers or because it's then no longer sterile. In a pinch, you could probably get a letter from a doctor 'prescribing' the specific fluid, and thus have a medical exemption from the 100mL rule.

Kate

A further note - the medical exemption generally only exists in the US. In Europe, you cannot carry fluids in bottles larger than 100mL without a prescription. And that may be true on a European airline, though it's security that really counts.

Kate

Kate, thanks for the info. I am saving it in a word document. My kids also have major allergies to most solutions so they have to stick to a particular brand (from Canada I believe) and we have never seen it abroad, so they take whatever they'll need.