Can I bring steroid ointment into Thailand?

December 9, 2011 6:47 AM

Can I bring 50g of prescription topical steroid ointment (Clobetasol) into Thailand without any trouble at Customs?
posted by ladybird to Travel & Transportation (4 answers total)

The main thing to remember when traveling with prescription medicine is to have the prescription label with your name on it. If that label was on a box which you do not carry with the medicine there could be an issue.
posted by caddis at 7:13 AM on December 9, 2011

Response by poster: The ointment is in its original tube but there is no prescription label with my name on it, nor is there a label on the box it was packaged in. I have looked but I cannot locate the original prescription.
posted by ladybird at 7:22 AM on December 9, 2011

Run to your pharmacy and have them reprint the label for you. Shouldn't be an issue then.
posted by erstwhile at 7:31 AM on December 9, 2011

Best answer: I have taken a tube of clobetasol into Thailand (by land and by air), although it was a few years ago. Don't sweat it.
posted by Bunglegirl at 10:21 AM on December 9, 2011 [1 favorite]