Scored some at CVS today, just in time to send back up to school with DS. 

Nalgene!!


That's the name of the amazing, leak-proof bottles that The Container Store sells.  It came to me in the shower this morning.  I swear I need a tub crayon, the shower is my thinkin place.

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Jemmas--that's a great idea. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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

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

Adrienne

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.

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

Interesting. 

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.

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

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.

Quote from: callisto on August 06, 2012, 04:37:06 PM
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.