FRIO Large Cooling Wallet - Insulin Cooler for 45+ Hours of Stress Free On The Go Cooler Bag - No Ice, No Stress

Product description is accurate. As long as instructions are followed and timing placed into ice cool water and timing taking out to dry. As well as the timing getting it into the sleeve. It does in fact keep the insulin cool enough to survive in the heat. Great for travel. Just make sure not to put it into an enclosed compartment. It needs to be able to breathe.

This is an excellent and simple solution to keep your medications cold while traveling. When you are back home be sure to leave this to hang to dry out for several days for it to revert to its dry state before you store it away.

Works great but kind of bulkey.

Past reviews complain about the temp. FRIO says it keeps cool to 68 degrees. It is not a refrigerator. We used in HOT Florida (July)at Disney and it kept our insulin from “cooking.” Insulin is working as it should. Now it’s on its way to HOT Cairo!

Where have you been all my life? I travel a lot and recently found this item this summer. This cooler worked exceptionally well. It kept cool in an 106 degree Egyptian desert and on a broken down bus. It worked better than the hotel refrigerator. I had no issues going through security at all kinds of international airports. It is amazing. I bought another for a friend it is so good. I do recommend bringing a gallon size ziplock with you while traveling as sinks are all different and if you travel to places with bad water use bottled water in a ziplock and place in sink and it will charge up or recharge. Know that once you “charge it” is swells up and holds fewer pens as it does when it is dry so before ordering really consider the size you need. It is bigger until charged.

Frio Cooling WalletItem(s) Qty Price Total1 $ [...] $ [...]FRIO LARGE Insulin Cooling Carrying Case / Wallet -Evaporative Cooler - keeps insulin cool up to 45 hours withoutever needing ice packs or refrigeration!I received item, attempted to get it to work.I followed instructions about soaking time, spreading outcrystals, etc.Before I potentially ruined a bottle of insulin I wanted toverify bag works. I did not at any time place a bottle of insulininto bag.The only thing I placed in bag was a thermometer.I placed a thermometer inside bag. (bag temperature)I placed another thermometer outside bag. (room temperature)Start time. 00:00 hh:mmRoom temp = 80FBag temp = 78FTime = 00:15Room temp = 80FBag temp = 78FTime = 00:45Room temp = 80FBag temp = 78FTime = 01:30Room temp = 78FBag temp = 76FI did this for over 48 hours.The data showed that Bag temperature was around 2 to 3 degreescooler than Room temperature. So if Room Temperature never droppedbelow 85F, then Bag Temperature would never drop below 82F.If you are trying to "cool down" a bottle of insulin, this bagwill not do that.My understanding at the time I bought the product was that it"cooled down".I could not get it to do that.Much, much later, weeks later, I was able to extract thisinfo from :[...]Even in Hot Climates! Insulin must be at the manufacturer'srecommended temperature when placed in the FRIO wallet.I did not know that, prior to purchasing bag.If I had known that, I would NOT have purchased bag.I was led to believe from all the information I could find atthe time of purchase was that this bag "cooled down" a bottle ofinsulin. "Cooled down" is my phrase, not Frio's phrase.Does Frio keep an already "cooled down" bottle of insulincool for 48 hours?I don't know, I did not test that.Does Frio "cool down" a bottle of insulin?I don't know, I never put a warm bottle of insulin in bag.Does Frio "cool down" a thermometer to something like 64Fwhen the Room temperature is 80F?Definitely not! I can state this without reservation that thebag I bought does not "cool down" a thermometer to anythingapproaching near 64F if the Room temperature is 80F.That was my need at the time.I needed something to "cool down" a bottle of insulin. I wasnot going to be near refrigeration. I was not going to be nearanything that would act like refrigeration (ice, snow, etc).

Awesome product, fits 2 epipen juniors. Instructions say to recharge every 48 hours for optimal cooling but it seems to function well enough with even more sparse recharges ( and "recharge" just means let it soak in water for a minute ). Just remember that the first use takes about 30 minutes to fully load up with water.Cons -- cooling seems to be nonlinear depending on outside temp and water content in the crystals, so you just have to "trust" that it keeps stuff inside the right temp range. Taking some surface temperatures it seems to hover between 71 and 72 degrees when ambient temp is 78 and air is fairly dry, which suggests an only 7 degree drop ( not enough to keep epipen safe on a hot day ). I did the same when air was humid and temp was like 85 and the frio was at 76 -- near the max 77 for an epipen, but a higher delta from the outside temp ( 9 degrees ). I don't know what will happen if the temperature is 95 or 100 in full humidity, frio might not be able to drop that down to 77, although since it seems to cool in proportion to how much water evaporates from the crystals so who knows *shrug*. Even so, cooling 10 or 15 degrees from 100 is still way better than 100..

This is my 2nd purchase of this item. Several years ago, I traveled to Scotland, this pouch worked great keeping my insulin cool. Scotland doesn't have refrigerators in the rooms, so this was a lifesaver!