10/25 Booger AMPS 178. Insulin and travel?

[MartinJA527]

Booger got her PMPS late yesterday by 30 minutes due to my work schedule and my husband being out of town for the evening. She's back on track now and we're hoping for some improvement.

I had posted about possible ways to travel with insulin in the Feline Health board and wondered if anyone here had success with that or suggestions. I know ADW sells travel kits but I didn't know if there was a certain kind that was better than another. I want to make sure and keep the insulin cool of course without freezing it and once we reach our destination (in around 4-5 hours), the medication would be refrigerated. Any insight appreciated.

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[Angela & Blackie & 3 Others]

Unfortunately, I personally don't have any traveling advice with regards to keeping insulin cool for long periods of time. When purchasing insulin, I have, however, came with cooler and those freezer packs (the kind that you use to keep drinks cool), purchased the insulin, put them in the cooler, and went home (usually about an hour's drive).

Hopefully someone who has more insulin travel knowledge than I do will come by and help answer your question for you. Good luck!

 

[Marilyn and Sheldon]

Others may have better methods, but when I took my girl on a two day trip (6 hours on the road each day, overnight in hotels with room refrigerators), I just wrapped some newspaper around the pens, put them in a baggy in a small cooler with a couple of those blue freeze packs.

Seemed to maintain the integrity of the pens.

Marilyn and Polly

 

[Wendy&Neko]

A couple of years ago, I traveled with Neko to Fort Collins Colorado for her SRT treatment. It was 8-9 hours each day for three days each way, with outside temperatures in the 90's. I put my insulin in it's original package, which fit nicely inside a Tupperware container so it wouldn't bounce around. I then loaded up a cooler with ice packs and put a small towel between the blue ice packs and the Tupperware container. I also had any of Neko's opened food cans and water in there to keep cool. Since then, I've purchased a Frio wallet that a number of people here use. If you are booking hotels, make sure you get ones where the fridge has a freezer, or they have a freezer elsewhere that you can leave the ice packs to freeze overnight.

 

[Ella & Rusty & Stu(GA)]

Hi,
We do a lot of 6+ hours trips with Rusty. I wrap the insulin in a sleeve of bubble wrap and put it into a small cardboard box. I wrap the box in several sheets of newspaper or small paper bags. I put the box in the bottom of a personal cooler, put our own food that we need to keep cool during the trip on top, put a couple of paper bags on top of the contents, and put 2 or 3 freezer cold blocks on top. Then the cooler lid. This will keep your insulin between 40 and 45 degrees for many hours. It is important never to let the insulin come in direct contzact with the cold blocks.

Hope this helps. Our cooler is a Coleman Personal 16. It is a very common size and many companies make similar coolers. It is hard plastic-- not one of those soft fabric coolers.

Have a good trip,

Ella & Rusty

 

[MartinJA527]

Thank you all so much for the replies! Seems like a lot of you are having great response with the cooler method. We have a couple of those from camping that we could use and try. I may check out the frio wallet that Wendy has had success with as well. I only had 1 response on the general health board but it was in favor of the regular cooler as well. Thanks again!
Jen

 

[julie & punkin (ga)]

We also traveled from Oregon to Ft Collins for the SRT treatment - 13 hrs x 2 days each way. We used a small cooler, about the size of 6 tall pop cans, wrapped the insulin in dish towels so it wouldn't freeze against the blue ice, and put a couple of blue ice packs in there. The insulin was fine. We made sure we had a fridge in our rooms overnight.

have a great trip!