Any experience carrying distilled water on airline.

Idget · Post by **Idget** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:08 am

I have an upcoming business trip to Seattle next week. Is is possible to carry a small bottle of distilled water on carryon with CPAP. I plan on buying some distilled water once I arrive in Seattle, but want at least one nights worth until I get to a store. With the current restrictions in airports you can't bring water through xray. Though there may be some exception for distilled water if there is some sort of prescription or seal from pharmacy.

ApNoob · Post by **ApNoob** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:30 am

Idget wrote:I have an upcoming business trip to Seattle next week. Is is possible to carry a small bottle of distilled water on carryon with CPAP. I plan on buying some distilled water once I arrive in Seattle, but want at least one nights worth until I get to a store. With the current restrictions in airports you can't bring water through xray. Though there may be some exception for distilled water if there is some sort of prescription or seal from pharmacy

Someone posted a while ago and said they'd had their doctor call in a script for distilled water and that they had it filled at WalMart in 8 or 16oz brown plastic bottles. The label said something like "Distilled Water. Use as prescribed for CPAP use." or something like that. The poster said that got them right through the checkpoints. Only cost them a few bucks, though I bet some pharmacies would charge up the wazoo.

I did a quick search for the post but didn't have any luck finding it...

Idget · Post by **Idget** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:33 am

Thanks, I may just wait to I get to Seattle and just run out to a pharmacy or grocery store.

bearcatx16 · Post by **bearcatx16** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:05 pm

I carry 2 16oz. bottles with Rx for distilled water on the labels. Cost was less than $2.00 got a gal. of distilled water plus the 2 bottles. Have never had any problems getting through security with them.

I messed up this week for an overnight trip. Decided I didn't want to mess with the humidifier and water for one night. That was a mistake, ended up "freezing my nose on straight CPAP w/o hh. My nose has been running and I;ve been sneezing ever since. Will never leave home w/o my hh again.

Good luck,

Fred

ApNoob · Post by **ApNoob** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:41 pm

bearcatx16 wrote:I carry 2 16oz. bottles with Rx for distilled water on the labels. Cost was less than $2.00 got a gal. of distilled water plus the 2 bottles. Have never had any problems getting through security with them.

I messed up this week for an overnight trip. Decided I didn't want to mess with the humidifier and water for one night. That was a mistake, ended up "freezing my nose on straight CPAP w/o hh. My nose has been running and I;ve been sneezing ever since. Will never leave home w/o my hh again.

Good luck,

Fred

It is certainly good for CPAP users that this works but it does show the silliness of the whole "no liquids" policy...

ozij · Post by **ozij** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:48 pm

It shows the silliness of letting people carry on bottles because they have perscriptions labels on them. Those could be explosives.

No harm can come to any person or machine from a night or two of non-distilled water in the humidifier e.g. tap water or mineral water. And on the plain, if you deperately need your cpap and humidifier you can also use water from a mineral bottle water.

O.

Treesap · Post by **Treesap** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:09 pm

I've used Aquafina or Dasani water in my CPAP just fine. I've gotten them right after leaving the airport.

ApNoob · Post by **ApNoob** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:11 pm

Treesap wrote:I've used Aquafina or Dasani water in my CPAP just fine. I've gotten them right after leaving the airport.

Dasani is filtered tap water with minerals added. You are probably better off using regular tap water as it should have fewer minerals unless you are in an area using well water or some such...

ApNoob · Post by **ApNoob** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:14 pm

ozij wrote:It shows the silliness of letting people carry on bottles because they have perscriptions labels on them. Those could be explosives.

That doesn't explain why can buy drinks in the secure area but can't take them on the plane!

That and the whole liquid explosives thing turned out to be impractical given that the materials could not be brought on in their usable state and would require long and complex preparation on board the plane. The whole no liquids thing is just more security theater as the waving through of water bottles with the magic "Rx" label that anyone can make up at home using a color printer demonstrates.

tillymarigold · Post by **tillymarigold** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:17 pm

ApNoob wrote:
ozij wrote:It shows the silliness of letting people carry on bottles because they have perscriptions labels on them. Those could be explosives.
That doesn't explain why can buy drinks in the secure area but can't take them on the plane!

They changed that rule over a year ago. You can now carry drinks onto the plane if you bought them after you passed the security checkpoint. I don't recall exactly when that rule was changed, but definitely by the time I went to visit my parents on the East Coast last Christmas.

ColoZZZ · Post by **ColoZZZ** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:19 pm

If the issue's a little bit of mineral deposition in the heated humidifier, don't even worry about using DI. Use tap water and just wash out the HH when you get back home to remove the mineral deposition, then resume using distilled water. I've done that plenty with no problems. If I'm flying somewhere for a couple of nights I've got better things to do than go get distilled water when I'm there or have a pharmacist prepare it with a label.

A couple of nights shouldn't be a problem, its if you were to use tap water for months that the mineralization would get nasty.

-Andy

RAINSUX · Post by **RAINSUX** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:55 pm

I use tap water when I'm traveling. It's never hurt anything and I do a good cleaning when I get home. Once I noticed a "bathtub ring" in the tank, but it washed right out. Don't obsess over this stuff. It's no big deal.

Sam

shippy · Post by **shippy** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:55 pm

I took a bussiness trip to Savannah Ga. back in June i went with out water got in to town late and had to buy purified drinking water at a convenience market (no stores open and no distilled roll up the sidewalks early there i guess) went four nights on the drinking water and no problem with deposits in my chamber. But i did get the cpap swab treatment and double xray of my machine at the airport when leaving town (Savannah Hilton Head Airport) took about thirty minutes

Dale

wog · Post by **wog** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:11 pm

I'll throw in my 2 cents on tap water. Went to UK and Ireland for two weeks in August. I didn't even bother looking for bottled water. Used tap the whole time.

Cleaned the HH chamber when I got home and everything was just fine. Now when I travel I just do tap and don't worry about it.

tomjax · Post by **tomjax** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:46 pm

It is amazing the things people can be concerned with.

I have not used a humidifier except for a few weeks about 10 years ago.
I have not used anything the past 10 years.
Think about all the other people in your house and in the world who breath plain old air.

Any experience carrying distilled water on airline.

Any experience carrying distilled water on airline.

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