Help! Stupidly forgot to buy a pouch for epipen and going to be in 35C+ for 12 days...

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...does anybody have any ideas how I can keep the pen at a reasonable temperature please? I've called the airport pharmacy (we fly tomorrow morning but are driving down in 1hr30) but they don't stock them any more. I do have to go to Tesco before we leave - would a v small cool bag (minus ice blocks) insulate the pen from the heat please?

I feel like such an idiot What would happen if the pen got overheated? Would it still work at a lower efficiency? Any advice gratefully received!

I'd stick it in a cool bag and hope for the best. We took ours in one of those yellow medical school bags, insulated but not sure how much. I guess anything is better than nothing. Have a fab hol :)

thermosflask - someone told me about this and it's genius! I now keep a set of out of date ones in a thermos in our car and they are doing fine!
If it helps, ours survived fine at these temps for 2 weeks recently
Enjoy the heat!

I have to say, DD has had epipens for 14 years and travelled all over the world and lived out of a back pack for weeks in 40c it never occurred to her or me, to keep them cool!

Thankfully never had to use one, but the one that fired into my thumb that was 5 years old and well travelled, worked fine, as I had to stay in hospital for 2 days! (Another story!)

Get a FRIO pouch from the pharmacy. They can be put in water and makes the gel go cold and hard and keeps them cold.

Thanks everyone - in the end I took a t-shirt and chilled the shirt in the fridge, wrapped it around the pen and stuck it next to my bottle of water. I think it worked fine. For the hottest weather (42C, even in shade) I left the pen in the room as then we were at a resort and had DP primed to run back if necessary

We had a great time and I only had to take a neoclarytin once, despite gorging myself on local food, so am definitely going back there!