Travel security question

[anksta]

Arite, I'm moving to China tomorrow because I'm hard and I have to take quite a bit of medication with me, it comes in quite large boxes though so I was thinking about taking all the pills out and putting them in a vitamin box or something, I have like 250 tablets though, do you think its a good idea to try that on? especially in china? also would it be better to have them in my suitcase or carry on?

Another question just for fun, if you have a plug converter and you put it on the end of a british 4way, does that work?

I'm not really hard by the way, appreciate the help.

 

[Cyanide]

Keep them in the box with your printed perscription label on. It'd look far better having tablets in labelled box with your name on rather than in a plastic tub hidden in your suitcase... and make sure you declare it if you have to fill in a customs form

 

[Werewolf]

I would think it a very bad idea to remove prescribed medication from it's packaging and try and get it through customs...
I would imagine if it's in it's original packaging, with the prescription labels you'll probably be ok, just make sure you declare it as some countries can be a little funny about some medication (and very funny about it if you just have a bunch of pills in a box...)

 

[doofer]

Taking all sorts of Pills in a single box completely unrelated to the Pills through any Airport Security let alone China where they will happily shoot drug-traffickers is really not the smartest idea is it?

 

[kwerk]

They execute drug smugglers in China. Keep it in the original package, have your prescription, and I would declare it to customs so they can check it out.

 

[Feef]

Yeah, keep your prescriptions with the pills and don't remove them from the packaging. That said, I took hundreds of pills in to China and never got stopped, leftover malaria stuff, prescription ones, all sorts.

The plug thing should work fine, I did that for a year with no problems (well, beyond the dire electricity supply where I was).