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Jason Hegg's 22-month-old son, Carter, has asthma and is too young to use an inhaler, so his family carries a portable device that allows him to breathe a medicated mist
Reason, Jan, 2006 by Charles Oliver
Jason Hegg's 22-month-old son, Carter, has asthma and is too young to use an inhaler, so his family carries a portable device that allows him to breathe a medicated mist. According to Hegg, federal Transportation Security Administration screeners at Duluth International Airport refused to allow him to board a plane with the device, even after he showed them information from a TSA Web site saying it was permitted.
By his account, the TSA screeners asked why he had to bring the device on board when "there's oxygen on the plane."
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