Portable Benadryl?

[YouKnowWho]

Wasn't Benadryl one of the companies that struggled with recalls and pulled stuff off the market in their march to clean?  I don't necessarily think it was a lack of market as much as most of the Benadryl products disappeared off the shelves.

It seems like places like Up & Up (Target), CVS and Walgreens have seen and filled the need in regards to spoons and fast melts - wonder if we could lobby for them to bring back the strips?

[CMdeux]

This is the sole reference that I've found to a formulation which is suitable for compounding work.

http://www.ijpc.com/Abstracts/Abstract.cfm?ABS=3282

The only references that I've found to premanufactured strips for compounding work are 'robitussin' ones, and they, too, have been discontinued, apparently.

My guess is that the strips are relatively expensive to manufacture, and therefore the margin just isn't very high on them.  What truly sucks is that this is one instance in which a compounding pharmacy can't really substitute for the product.   

[CMdeux]

I wouldn't mind buying some in Canada and mailing them - I will be in the USA next week.  Not sure if they would be damaged in the heat, though - the box I bought recently doesn't say what temperature range it needs to be stored at.

I assume these are what you are looking for:

http://www.triaminic.ca/ca_en/products/100036_ingredients.shtml#

Those are them.   

I still have two boxes, because they've been occasionally hard to find over the past two years, so I've always stocked up when I found them in stock.

I wonder, though, if a US pharmacy would be able to order them in special for us?  They haven't been pulled because of any safety concerns, after all-- they just aren't marketed here anymore.  I might have to make a few phone calls and find out.

Hmm.

[callisto]

The Triaminic website says they were discontinued due to lack of sales.  There were no recalls and remaining product in stores and homes is fine to use.

[maeve]

http://www.amazon.com/Triaminic-Allergy-Strips-Grape-Flavor/dp/B0030HKZR8/ref=sr_1_32?ie=UTF8&qid=1344290547&sr=8-32&keywords=benadryl

Triaminc strips on Amazon

[Didi M.]

Researching today, and found the following, both with the ingredient diphenhydramine, but in larger doses - good for my teenager:
Unisom SleepMelt Tablets
UrgentRx Allergy Attack Relief to Go
Both are available on Amazon.

[Macabre]

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/03/20/urgentrx-is-reinventing-pills/

Interesting. 

[Macabre]

Love the product description. They are targeting a market for sure. And I'm thrilled with that.




Ugh--will not fit perfectly in a wallet like the Benadryl strips used to.

[nameless]

so I found generic grape melti-mouth tablets for 12.5mg of diphen.hcl in CVS

Adrienne

[GoingNuts]

Oooooh, I'll be heading there tomorrow.  What a find!

[Beach Girl]

I use Zyrtec.  The adult dose is either one of the 10 mg tabs that you put on your tongue and it dissolves or two of the 5 mg chewables.  Our allergist says it works faster than Benadryl.

[Macabre]

I think for girls it's a lot easier, and it always has been. They can easily carry around things in a purse most of the time. The reason we have really missed the Benadryl and Triaminic melty strips is that the Benadryl tablets and little spoons are not easy forbteenage boys to carry in their pocket--along with 2 epis, Auvis and a cell phone (thank goodness out DS doesn't have to carry his inhaler all the time). Oh, and a wallet.

I will order these and assume one can fit into the wallet and is okay folded.

[lakeswimr]

I got tiny little bottles from The Container Store that don't leak and put a dose in each one.  Each epi kit has two bottles, each with one dose in them inside a zip lock freezer bag just in case.  In all these years they have leaked out only twice and that was from movement of the lid as it got jostled around, not from the bottle leaking. 

[Macabre]

Yep, when DS was little we used those bottles, too. They are just amazing. I'm not thinking of the name--starts with an N. They work really well with a purse or bag situation.

[Jemma2]

We use the Target brand fast melt tablets too.  I would squeeze about 4 of the tablets into his epi carrier (AllergyPack).  But I would find that after a while they would start to get sort of crushed and powdery and I figured if someone tried to open them up the tablets wouldn't be very usable.  I actually just recently found that I could fit 4 tablets (unopened, but cut into individual squares) into an empty mini-Altoid tin.  I put a label on it and stuffed into the AllergyPack.  This way they shouldn't get crushed.  It's not a great fit into the AllergyPack, but it works.