In this video, I’ll show you a great new option for keeping your insulin or other meds from getting too hot (or too cold). These insulin coolers are absolutely brilliant for hot summer days, long car rides, camping, and traveling.
I’m christel from diabetes strong in this video i’ll be showing you a new insulin cooler as well as a new insulin cooler mini-fridge and these two are brilliant options for hot summer days for long car rides for camping or if you’re traveling so i’ll of course show you the insulin coolers but i’m on vacation
This week i’m in very beautiful very warm italy so i’ll also be giving you a download of my experience using these two products and the reason why i talk about insulin coolers is that we have to prevent our insulin from becoming too hot or too cold because it can go bad so what that means is that if it goes bad it
Loses its ability to lower our blood sugars as much as expected i’ve talked about insulin coolers before but this this is a completely different product so this is a mini-fridge with this one it completely eliminates the need for a fridge completely it eliminates the need for access to water or for a freezer for
That matter and what’s really unique is that that it’s temperature controlled so that means that if you use this product your cold or too hot so let me start by showing so i unpacked it before i left for italy let’s just have a look so this is the box that comes in so let’s just have a look let’s unpack
It first you see these are all the items that are in there it’s a bio gel it’s the actual cooling case this is what turns it into a mobile fridge there’s a container the lid the carrying case and then i don’t know what that is let’s have a look i’m gonna open it up okay here you see all the stuff so that was a carrying
Case for the cooler little patch for electronics see that here this is you pluck that into the lid that’s what it you know you pluck that into an outlet exciting because this is what turns it into mini-fridge so you just pop in your insulin in here pop it into the container and then pluck that and let’s just see
What this is what is this huh it’s like a door hanger do not forget your supplies i guess you could put that on the door this is a container that’s just a brand just screw off the lid i just here you go so this is the bio gel this part then goes in the freezer plop that in and then you put your insulin next to
It just see how much insulin can fit in there okay a pre-filled pen or eight insulin vials so that’s how i would be using it um this is kind of like all the i only have four pens right now so see that’s four pens they fit easily um i would then put i guess i could take them out of foil that would be the easy way to
Do it wouldn’t it let’s just stop that in there huh perfect cool i could definitely see six to seven pens in there or eight vials i guess so i just showed you all the components but let’s talk about the actual product so what i’m most excited about is this part so this is the one with the middle cylinder this is
The actual mini-fridge so the way they use it the way that i’ve been using it this week in italy is that you again so it kind of showed you you put in your insulin here see how much insulin i have left and you plug it in so here’s the plug i’ll show you what it looks like in a second what is really it will keep a
Constant temperature of 36 to 46 fahrenheit so that’s two to eight degrees celsius and it’s great and nice that i tell you actually tell you in this little display of the cooler so i’ve been using i kept going overlooking you know how much is it and it kept that steady temperature between 36 to 46.
Um of course you need to have it plugged in so you can plug it in well in the car outlet you can plug it if you have a solar panel you do that if you’re in a house like i am you can just plug it into the outlet and the cool thing is if it’s again if it starts to get too hot or starts to get too cold it will adjust so
If it’s getting close to that 36 it’ll shut off if it’s getting close to that 46 it will turn on so that’s the way it regulates so that’s one way that you can use the cooler the other way to use the cooler is to use the buyer gel so that was the one i showed you when i did the unpacking of the product um it’s
More of a traditional way of using it i’d say the way that you do it is that you freeze this and then you take it out 10 to 15 minutes before you’re about to use it or you can plop it into water for 30 to hot water for 30 to 60 seconds the reason why you want to do that is you want it to acclimate you don’t want to
Freeze your insulin and the duration and how much this product will cool will kind of depend on the environment so let’s just have a look at that it maintains inside temperature range of 36 to 46 fahrenheit that’s 2 to 8 degrees celsius 33 hours and below 80 fahrenheit and 36 celsius for 52 hours when the
Outside temperature is at 86 fahrenheit or that is 30 degrees celsius and it maintains inside temperature range of 36 to 46 fahrenheit 2 to 8 celsius for 30 hours and below 80 fahrenheit temperature is 95 fahrenheit that’s 35 celsius and finally maintains inside temperature range of 36 to 46 fahrenheit that’s two to
Eight degrees celsius for 28 hours and below 80 fahrenheit is 26 degrees celsius for 46 hours when the outside temperature is at 104 fahrenheit that’s 40 degrees celsius the way i’ve used my mini-fridge on this gel on the flight so i bought it in copenhagen part of the journey when i got to my hotel
I took out the bio gel and i switched it over to the mini-fridge this is the fridge in the hotel so nice i love that there’s a fridge it’s gonna hold my water but you know i don’t quite trust temperature it should be so i have the cooler see listen you can hear it there’s a little motor going um but again it’s plugged
Into the outlet and there’s temperature control is going and basically i have my insulin in here i’ll show you in a second brilliant okay see i just took it apart so you can see this is a cooling part so you have all the insulin in here and simply just i only have there we go and just be careful if you have a vial
Pluck it in mobile fridge brilliant we only spent one night in that hotel so the next day we went and got a rental car and because again this outlet fits in the outlet in the car i just plucked that in and it kept refrigerating all the way to our house and once we got here um again i’ve just had it plugged in actually
In the bathroom i just had it plugged in there for the whole trip and it it’s worked perfectly so although i really do enjoy this product and i will be using it for rainbows there are a few things i wish were not completely silent so that is one of the reasons why i had it in the bathroom it’s the other
Thing is it’s fairly heavy it’s not super heavy but if you’re flying like i wear on this trip you will have to carry this in your carry-on so i had it in my purse that adds a little bit of weight to my luggage but the good thing is it’s tsa approved i brought it through the security screening nobody asked
Any questions and that’s with the bio drill with the motor everything so this portable cooler and mini-fridge it’s from for all family it’s just one of many of their products but it’s by far the one i find is the most unique um it’s the one i brought with me along with this one so let’s just talk a little bit about the
Other product so for example if you don’t want to run around with the whole fridge part so this is the heavy part they actually have a usb lid so the cylinder is not there it’s only the lit and if you hook that up to a power source and it does require that the temperature does not get over 86 fahrenheit which is
30 degrees celsius but with that and the lid hooked up to a power outlet it will keep your insulin at the right temperature well forever and if you don’t want to use a product with a power outlet there are also some different options including this which is a one pen lightweight case and this one holds well one insulin
Pen and it’s only 0.45 pounds and it’s cooling using the bio gel so it will keep your insulin or other celsius for 10 to 18 hours they also have other options if you do not want to use a power outlet and you want to be able to bring more insulin along than just you know the one pen so one option is the nomad
And that comes in a medium and a big pens, four novolog vials, or 22 humulin vials eight novolog vials, or 42 humulin vials you can get all the coolers from the 4allfamily brand on their website which is 4allfamily or you can get them on amazon and the prices vary quite a bit so the most expensive one is this one
Which is the portable cooler and that one is $199.99 while the other coolers i showed you goes from everything from $29.99 to $79.99 and all of them include a biogel and i’ll of course leave links to the website as well as to the amazon shop down in the video description so you can easily find the products
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A New Way of Keeping Your Insulin Cold – Portable Mini Fridge REVIEW By Diabetes Strong
