{"id":827,"date":"2022-10-21T13:45:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T20:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=827"},"modified":"2022-10-21T13:46:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T20:46:34","slug":"easy-jet-requires-physicians-letter-in-order-to-carry-prescription-meds-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2022\/10\/21\/easy-jet-requires-physicians-letter-in-order-to-carry-prescription-meds-on-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Jet Requires physician&#8217;s letter to carry prescription meds on board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote><p><strong>Medication<\/strong><\/p><ul>\n<li>We advise You to take Your medication in your hand baggage<\/li>\n<li><strong>Please bring a letter from Your medical practitioner confirming the type of medication and what it is for<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>We are unable to refrigerate medication for You onboard<\/li>\n<\/ul><p><strong>Needles<\/strong><\/p><p>You are allowed to bring needles and syringes onboard for treatment of medical conditions. However <strong>please ensure that You also carry a letter from Your medical practitioner confirming the type of medication and what it is for<\/strong>. You must self-administer any injections required during the flight. Our cabin crew are unable to administer any medication, including injections, under any circumstances. Inform the cabin crew if You need to use Your needles so that they can provide a sharps box for safe disposal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.easyjet.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/medical-information\">Medical Information | easyJet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I carry two Epi-Pens (or generic equivalents), prednisone, Benadryl and Pepcid-AC for treatment of severe allergic reactions to some food items. I had no idea I would need a letter from my doctor on some airlines. They also ask passengers to inform the cabin crew upon boarding if carrying an Epi-Pen for food allergies. There may be good reasons for this but it seems awkward and is quite different from other travel experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/12019-12019\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=90593\">David Mark<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=90593\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EasyJet requires travelers carrying prescription medications to have a letter from their physician explaining what the medication is for. Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-travel","category-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}