Peptide Travel Checklist
Pack one third more syringes, pads and needles than the days away, freeze the ice packs the night before, and keep everything temperature-sensitive in the cabin bag: the insulated case with a thermometer, syringes sealed beside the vial they are for, and a travel sharps container.
Last edited · written by PepPrep · not medical advice
Print this, or copy it into your notes. It is everything people forget, in the order they forget it.
Before you leave
- Count the days away and pack one third more syringes, pads and needles than that. Delays happen.
- Freeze the ice packs overnight — the slim ones for an insulated case, not a kitchen block.
- Photograph the labels on everything, in case a box gets lost.
- Write the "opened on" date on any bottle that has been started.
In the cabin bag
- The insulated case with vials, ice pack and a thermometer if you have one.
- Syringes in their sealed packs, with the vial they are for.
- Alcohol pads, a few gauze squares and spot bandages in a zip pouch.
- A travel sharps container — empty going out, sealed coming back.
- An evaporative cooling wallet, for when the freezer is a hotel away; it needs only water. It keeps things cool rather than fridge-cold. Ice packs get nearer fridge temperature for about a day, and only a compressor fridge, such as the 12 V car fridge, holds 2–8 °C on its own; the battery cooler gets there only in a mild room.
- Prescription copy or a letter, if you have either. A pen light for dim rooms.
At the hotel
- Ask for a fridge before you arrive; minibar fridges are often set warm. Check it with the thermometer before trusting it.
- Keep the case in the fridge, not loose vials — housekeeping tidies loose things.
- Re-freeze the ice pack in the hotel freezer the night before travelling home. If there is no freezer, the evaporative wallet keeps things cool for the journey, but it does not hold 2–8 °C.
Coming home
- Seal the sharps container before packing it. It goes back through security fine.
- Check the thermometer's high and low readings and note them on the vial's label. Neither case regulates temperature: ice packs run colder, and can dip below 2 °C next to the pack, while an evaporative wallet stays cooler than the room but not fridge-cold. Read the number rather than assuming either way.
The rules for security are in Can you fly with bac water and syringes?; the choice of case is in cooling options. If you are driving rather than flying, keeping supplies cold on a road trip replaces the cabin-bag half of this list.
Supplies mentioned: Travel · Printable travel supplies checklist
Equipment only: nothing on this page is advice about what to inject, how much, or whether a product is fit to use. That comes from the product's labelling and whoever supplied it.