Hi
Is it safe to take vitamins on hols? I usually dont cos I think they may get mistaken for drugs after reading a story in cosmo? I take 3 a day.
Keep them in their original packaging. Pack them in hold baggage. And if all else fails, depending on what they are, you could buy the local equivalent at your destination. Don't believe everything you read at its face value - it's easy to determine what a drug/medicine/tablet is by testing.
Depends a lot on where you are going.
I have taken mine with me to many countries without any problems but.... if you are going to Dubai be very very careful, check thoroughly on UA government sites as to what you are allowed as people have come to grief there for carrying products that would be quite legal to take into most other countries.
Judith
I have taken mine with me to many countries without any problems but.... if you are going to Dubai be very very careful, check thoroughly on UA government sites as to what you are allowed as people have come to grief there for carrying products that would be quite legal to take into most other countries.
Judith
Or just take an extra big dose before you go then eat plenty of fruit and veg while there. In actual fact very few people in the UK actually suffer from vitamin deficiencies.
Thats fine but I take calcium on doctors advice, I'm expect my body could go without it for a while but I am sometimes away for 5-6weeks so don't like to chance going without it for that length of time.
I always carry vitamin supplements with me in a plastic bag: just enough for the duration of the holiday & have never once been asked what they are.
Judith wrote:Thats fine but I take calcium on doctors advice, I'm expect my body could go without it for a while but I am sometimes away for 5-6weeks so don't like to chance going without it for that length of time.
Eat plenty of cheese and drink lots of milk! Plus calcium is not a vitamin! It is a mineral.
Or just take an extra big dose before you go then eat plenty of fruit and veg while there. In actual fact very few people in the UK actually suffer from vitamin deficiencies.
Strange that I was reading recently where in the UK rickets is on the increase due to the lack of vitamin D, and you shouldn't take more than the recommended dose of vitamins because the fat soluble vitamins are stored in the body and an excess can result in side effects...the water soluble vitamins you will pee away the excess that the body doesn't reguire .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jan/21/rickets-increase-milk-supplement
Hi De Hi wrote:Eat plenty of cheese and drink lots of milk! Plus calcium is not a vitamin! It is a mineral.
I stand corrected.....I'm quite aware that milk and cheese contain calcium. One of the reasons I take a calcium supplement is because I have to limit the amount of dairy products I eat and even if I could eat/drink lots of it it's just not available in some of the countries I visit.:duh .
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MarkJ
2010-01-25 06:57:10
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I have travelled with multivitamins and folic acid when I was pregnant and I was never questioned. I think if they are in their correct container you should have no problems.
Judith wrote:Hi De Hi wrote:Eat plenty of cheese and drink lots of milk! Plus calcium is not a vitamin! It is a mineral.
I stand corrected.....I'm quite aware that milk and cheese contain calcium. One of the reasons I take a calcium supplement is because I have to limit the amount of dairy products I eat and even if I could eat/drink lots of it it's just not available in some of the countries I visit.:duh .
If you are drinking bottled water most of those contain elevated quantities of calcium.
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