Nowadays, many people like to travel abroad. Many tourists will prepare some medicines when they go abroad. However, it doesn't matter if they take the medicine which seems to be common at home. If they take it abroad, they will be banned from entering the country or sent back to the country, or even sentenced to prison. So, can you bring medicine abroad? What are the standards for taking medicine abroad?
Can I bring medicine abroad?
You can bring medicine when you go abroad, but you must abide by several principles
1. Declare the specific drug information to the customs in advance;
2. As far as possible, it is easy to take Chinese medicine as prohibited.
3. Keep the original packing box and instruction manual of the drug;
4. The carrying quantity should not exceed the individual dosage obviously, and the doctor's prescription should be carried at the same time.
Those drugs can't be taken abroad?
Containing morphine
There are many morphine ingredients in Chinese patent medicines, but morphine drugs may be addicted, so they are often listed as prohibited drugs! Morphine is also a kind of drug, so it has become the focus of customs. More common, such as changweining, Kechuanning, kejiting, xiaoerzhixieling, etc.
Containing ephedrine
In addition to its therapeutic effect, ephedrine also has a dangerous use in the manufacture of drugs, which are strictly regulated and prohibited in many countries. However, it is very common in Chinese families to contain this component of the common medicine, such as compound licorice tablets, Biyan tablets, Chailian oral liquid, Dahuoluo pill, Zhuifeng ointment, compound Chuanbei Zhike syrup, Jizhi syrup, Xinkangtai, Baijiahei, etc.
Containing domperidone
Domperidone, a common gastric drug in China, is strictly restricted in Australia, Canada and the United States because it contains a component that may cause serious side effects, domperidone. Domperidone overdose, may cause arrhythmia, cardiac arrest and so on, so it is prohibited to bring into China by customs of many countries.
Fluoroquinolones
Before going abroad, many people are worried about "upset stomach" and will prepare some norfloxacin and other drugs. However, drugs such as ciprofloxacin, moxifloxacin, levofloxacin, norfloxacin, ofloxacin, etc. containing fluoroquinolones are prohibited by many countries because they may cause harm to the body.
Chinese herbal medicine
Some nourishing and health preserving herbs are very popular among Chinese people. They feel that they are all 'natural' herbs. It should be no problem to take some of them abroad? In fact, a lot of traditional Chinese medicine has been listed in the list of prohibited goods entering the country. The confiscation and fine are not discussed in minutes! For example, scorpion, centipede, toad, snake gall, snake slough, cicada slough, deer antler, musk, ox horn, turtle shell, bird's nest, bezoar, donkey hide gelatin and other ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine, or tiger bone wine, bear bile powder, etc.