Pack a small kit for minor injuries and your regular medical needs. Adapt it with a clinician or pharmacist to your health, activities and distance from medical care. The CDC's general travel checklist is a starting point, not an Iraq-specific medicine prescription.
- Wound supplies: adhesive plasters, blister pads, gauze, non-stick dressings, medical tape, an elastic bandage, antiseptic wipes and disposable gloves.
- Basic equipment: a digital thermometer, tweezers and a small first-aid guide.
- Health supplies: oral rehydration sachets, hand sanitiser, insect repellent and sunscreen with SPF 30 or higher.
- Medicines: your regular prescribed medicines and any prescribed emergency medicines. Ask a pharmacist which pain, allergy or diarrhoea medicines are suitable for you. Include antibiotics only if prescribed for you, with instructions for their use.
- Documents: prescription copies, a prescriber's letter listing generic medicine names, your allergies, insurance details and emergency contacts.
Keep the kit accessible in a durable, water-resistant container. Carry medicines in hand luggage, in correctly labelled original pharmacy packaging. Check storage temperatures before departure.
Check permission to bring each medicine with an Iraqi embassy or consulate, and check transit-country rules separately. Over-the-counter products can also face restrictions. Local sale does not establish permission to import. This checklist does not confirm Iraqi import allowances.
Sources: CDC travel health kits, NaTHNaC medicines and travel.
Checked on 2026-10-25.