keeping injections cold on Amtrak?

[heartsy77]

We are headed to WDW in August. My daughter will be starting growth hormone injections next month. We have asked for the frig in our room at the POP but I am not sure how to get in the car, at a steady cool temp, from NY to Virgina and then on the train till Florida. Any ideas? This medication must be kept cool at all times. The portable insluin cases I have seen online are just ice pack and are up to 24 hrs... not long enough!

 

[Wishes Count]

We are headed to WDW in August. My daughter will be starting growth hormone injections next month. We have asked for the frig in our room at the POP but I am not sure how to get in the car, at a steady cool temp, from NY to Virgina and then on the train till Florida. Any ideas? This medication must be kept cool at all times. The portable insluin cases I have seen online are just ice pack and are up to 24 hrs... not long enough!

Hi!
I think I can help. I am on the college program at WDW and I took the auto train to get to FL. I had to take my humira with me, which comes in a pre-filled pen. What we did was take an insulated lunch box and 4 frozen water bottles. We sandwiched the pens in between them. There is no where for you to store the medication on the train. We brought some plastic bags and were able to get Ice when the water bottles started to unfreeze. We got the ice around 7pm and then again the next morning. I drove from PA to VA and everything worked out okay.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

I would suggest going to www.coolerconcept.com and looking at the Frio Cold Packs. There are several people in this forum, myself included, who use them.

These are gel packs that are water activated. They will keep the internal temperature at insulin-safe levels for over 40 hours. As the water evaporates you can just soak it in water for a few minutes to reactivate it. They come in various sizes.

For example, I have a "double wallet". Depending on what I am doing it will hold my Byetta pen as well as either a syringe with insulin in it or two insulin vials. And I tend to do at least five air round trips a year and have never had any problems with TSA over it.