Keeping antibiotics cool with no fridge. Any ideas?

[KitKat1985]

DD1 (6) saw the dentist today who has confirmed that she has an infection around one of her front teeth (subsequent to an unfortunate accident a while ago where she fell off her scooter and face-planted the tarmac). She appears completely unbothered by this, isn't in pain, and continues to bounce around all over the place, so is fine to travel still. She needs antibiotics for 5 days, which are the liquid amoxicillin banana-flavoured kind you need to keep in the fridge. However we're due to go away this weekend as a half term treat to visit a theme park Saturday and Sunday and stay in a Holiday Inn overnight. I don't believe the room has a fridge, but we have a mini fridge we can take to keep the antibiotics stored overnight. But we won't be checking into the hotel until the evening so the antibiotics are going to have to stay in a warm car all day, and we're going to have the same issue the next day whereby we won't have access to a fridge until we get home late evening. At the moment the best I can think of is ice packs? Has anyone any better suggestions? The mini fridge will work in the car but only if the engine is left on and we can't really leave the car engine idleing for 8 hours whilst we are in a theme park. I am going to try and call the park and ask if they can store them for us.

Could you freeze loads of icepacks and put them in an insulated bag or the mini fridge might work as it's insulated?

I would keep the antibiotics in the fridge in the hotel room and just take the one dose for during the day with you drawn up into a syringe. You could then just freeze some water in a sandwich bag to keep it cool until needed then bin the bag.

Ice pack in an insulated lunch box/cool bag type thing.

You can take prescription to pharmacy and ask them not to prepare it in liquid, explain your traveling, fairly easy to prepare once you're at the hotel, just need water and a measuring prep,work in pharmacy and we usually happy to accommodate providing parents feel comfortable making bottle up

Yeah I think it's going to have to something ingenious with ice packs. Problem I've got is freezing the ice packs again Saturday night as I won't have access to a freezer Saturday night. On Sunday we need to check out before we leave to go to the theme park again so will need to keep the antibiotics with us in the car on Sunday too.

I think you need to check with the pharmacist for advice as freezing can affect the medicine too. Obviously it isn't going to freeze solid kept in ice packs but I think amoxicillin is unstable below 0C and it might drop below that where it touches the ice pack. You could also get ice crystals forming, which could affect the dosage.

Could she manage to take a tablet instead? You would still need to avoid excess temperatures though.

I don't think she would take a tablet to be honest sadly. Without trying to drip feed she's autistic and I don't think would really understand what to do with a tablet / capsule.

Have you got time to buy one of those first aid cold packs you can get where you snap it or shake it to activate? Wrap the bottle in a teatowel straight from the fridge and then put the ice pack next to the teatowel and wrap it all in as many layers of towels/blankets as you can to insulate.

If you could get capsules, you can open them up and stir it into a spoonful of something like jam or yoghurt. Check with the pharmacist.

@A2007

You can take prescription to pharmacy and ask them not to prepare it in liquid, explain your traveling, fairly easy to prepare once you're at the hotel, just need water and a measuring prep,work in pharmacy and we usually happy to accommodate providing parents feel comfortable making bottle up

This probably the best solution if your DD can't manage with tablets. You would probably need a separate bottle for each day though so you didn't need to refrigerate it.

I think amoxicillin is relatively stable at room temperature, it is only leaving it in the car that will be an issue. You really need to talk to the pharmacist for advice though.

Maybe a chilli bottle that keeps liquids cold for 24 hours might be a better solution than an ice pack.

Honestly?
It won't matter. They'll still work.

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@NannyR

If you could get capsules, you can open them up and stir it into a spoonful of something like jam or yoghurt. Check with the pharmacist.

At her age she's probably on a 125mg dose-the smallest capsules are 250mg

When my son was about 3 he got an ear infection which led to a burst ear drum just before we were going camping on the south coast. We’re in Scotland so a bit of a trek! The amoxicillin survived the train journey, long car journey, then camping just in an insulated lunch bag with an ice pack. There wasn’t a fridge at the site but they let me freeze ice packs in the ice cream freezer. It’ll be fine.
DS was fine too! Just miffed he couldn’t go swimming

@A2007

You can take prescription to pharmacy and ask them not to prepare it in liquid, explain your traveling, fairly easy to prepare once you're at the hotel, just need water and a measuring prep,work in pharmacy and we usually happy to accommodate providing parents feel comfortable making bottle up

I have done this when DS needed antibiotics and we were travelling abroad. That said I was worried about whether I would manage to keep the bottle cold enough for his last doses when flying back. Both the Dr and Pharmacists said that it's really not anything to stress about unless you're not refrigerating the bottle at all. Apparently a few hours here and there doesn't matter!!

We once did a 2 day journey back from France with this very problem. Bloody nightmare.

We had to buy a fridge you could plug into the car.

Thank you for all of your replies. Hopefully it won't matter too much if it gets a bit of time out of the fridge then. I have to say Paultons Park were great. I phoned them today and they are happy for us to store her antibiotics in their first aid tent fridge whilst we're in the park.