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I posted a question a few days ago, but the people that responded didn't really have an answer. My post was http://askwaltstollmd.com/wwwboard/messages/124512.shtml
I'll be flying in 24 hours and want advise about the best way to take my homeopathic remedies with me, so they will not get x-rayed at the airport.
Surely, I'm not the only person on this BB who travels/flies with their remedies...... am I?
In Reply to: X-rays and homeopathic remedies- Dr. Stoll or Doc Kim -please posted by SusanD on September 30, 2002 at 20:50:47:
Susan, I'm not Dr. Stoll or Dr. Kim, and I don't typically fly with homeopathic remedies but two suggestions come to mind.
One is film bags that are used to protect film from x-ray machines.
The other possibility is to keep the key ones you are likely to need on the plane and in the airport with you (in a film bag) and overnight express the rest to your destination. I heard recently that passengers are no longer being required to drink from any containers that they take on board with them (following the breast milk incident). I heard a few months back that many people are even fed-exing their luggage instead of going through the hassle of airport security. You would have to check with the delivery company or post office to find out if they do any type of x-ray or scanning that might affect your remedies.
I'm sorry you didn't get any helpful replies.
Happy travels.
Nutmeg
In Reply to: X-rays and homeopathic remedies- Dr. Stoll or Doc Kim -please posted by SusanD on September 30, 2002 at 20:50:47:
Perhaps a note from your doctor requesting that they not be xrayed? I've only travelled once with supplements/remedies but at that time the security wasn't as tight as it is now. But the doctor was concerned that I might not be ALLOWED to carry all those supplements and remedies across the ocean so he wrote me a note in case they were questioned. Good luck and have a nice trip :-)
In Reply to: X-rays and homeopathic remedies- Dr. Stoll or Doc Kim -please posted by SusanD on September 30, 2002 at 20:50:47:
Hi, Susan D.
Personally, I do not know if xray hurts homeopathic remedies which is why I did not respond.
Listen to BarbaraN & nutmeg. Better safe than sorry.
They might make you take them out so they can see them but they do not have to xray them.
Walt
In Reply to: Re: X-rays and homeopathic remedies- Dr. Stoll or Doc Kim -please posted by Walt Stoll on October 01, 2002 at 13:03:18:
I was beginning to think that no one on this BB had ever traveled with homeopathic remedies or even gave it a thought. I used to travel with a couple of dozen remedies and it used to be fairly simple at the x-ray machines. I would just carry them on in my string bag and hand it over to the security people, but that string bag now is considered a 3rd piece of carry on luggage. Before 9/11 it was no problem. After 9/11 they had to consult with half the security staff as to whether I would be allowed to carry them aboard, and why did I need all those remedies, and why wouldn't I allow them to go through the X-rays, etc.? It didn't help carrying around a note from my homeopath.. they said it could have been written by a drug dealer! So I stopped carrying remedies, and then invariably ended up with a cold, or a cramped muscle or something that could easily be helped with my remedies.... sigh!
There really isn't any room in either my purse (which is packed to the gills) with other necessities and weighs a ton, and my brief case which is full of the legal papers I'll need. This is a very intense business trip, so I can't take the chance of losing those documents if checked luggage is lost, which has happened more than once. I HAVE to make this trip (otherwise I sure wouldn't), and do so every other month... the business is that I'm the Trustee of my mom's estate and also her POA. She has Alzheimer's and arthritis, etc. So I not only carried what I would need in the way of remedies for me, plus Arnica, etc. for her. If I leave them at the nursing home, they just toss them out after a few weeks. The regular nursing staff knows not to throw them out, but the temporary help is unreliable and doesn't always speak/read English if I leave a note in the bag of remedies...... sigh!
Anyway, at this point, since I wouldn't be allowed to bring a special bag lead lined bag on the flight (it would still count as luggage), besides there isn't even time enough to shop for one, I will just have to bring what I can stuff into my pockets. There also isn't enough time at this point to package the remedies and FedEx them to my motel, because my day is packed with other responsibilities....
If I hadn't had recent surgery, and still feel rather fragile from that experience, I would take the chance of not needing my remedies and not go through the hassle at the airport.
Since I wasn't sure I would get a response from anyone, I continued searching the internet, and came up with this web site, which pretty much says what you 3 have said.... and the results are mixed as to whether X-rays will harm the remedies. Although the homeopath I've used for years, and who also teaches homeopathy says that X-rays are harmful. Since she never travels by air, she didn't have a solution for me either.
You might find the site useful enough to bookmark, as I have now.
In Reply to: Thank you all for responding! posted by SusanD on October 01, 2002 at 15:11:09:
Thannks, SusanD.
Just one more reason to damn Al Queada (sp).
Namaste`
Walt
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