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You’re already an ATF Member, login to your Membership Account to purchase a Medication Travel Pack.Members Can Purchase the ATF Medication Travel Pack for $44.95 + choice of delivery with separate charges Postage**standard postage in Australia. PLEASE NOTE: Shipping Rates do apply to this product. After many concerns were received from ATF members, wanting a solution when travelling with their Oroxine and Eutroxsig, the ATF Executive resourced the ATF Medication Travel Pack (MTP). (approved by the TGA for travelling with refrigerated medications) The Medication Travel Pack continues to help patients who are stable on Oroxine and Eutroxsig travel without worrying about their medication or thinking they would need to change brands before they travel. Changing brands is not recommended, as each brand has a different formula. Changing brands can affect blood results, incur symptoms and changes to patient’s thyroid health and wellbeing. Brands/formulas should only be made after consultation with the treating doctor and for a medical reason. Click here to read Patient Medication Choice of Brand articleBecome an ATF Member today and enjoy the many benefits of MembershipIncluding the opportunity to purchase an ATF Medication Travel Pack which is designed for transportation and cool storage of Thyroxine Replacement Hormone, (Oroxine and Eutroxsig). The Australian Thyroid Foundation recommend Oroxine and Eutroxsig should be stored in the refrigerator all the time and not left out of the refrigerator for any reason. This is to avoid any possibility of spoilage, due to temperature change or contact with light.
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Member Tips For Medication Travel Pack
TIPS FOR TRAVELLING OVERSEAS
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If you are travelling using an airline, please note; no airline will allow you to use on board refrigerators to store your medication whilst travelling.
When travelling with Oroxine or Eutroxsig in an ATF Medication Travel Pack (MTP) on an aeroplane, ship, or other means of transport, please ensure you ask your GP for a Doctor's Letter, stating the traveller is carrying specific thyroid medication which needs to be kept at a cool temperature in an ATF Medication Travel Pack.
To ensure your MTP arrives with you, never put your MTP in your check in luggage. You may need to take a dose of Oroxine/Eutroxsig whilst travelling, so it is important to always have it with you whilst travelling.
Once you arrive at your destination, remove your Oroxine/Eutroxsig from the Medication Travel Pack and place in a refrigerator.
Place your Medication Travel Pack in a freezer to be ready for your return or continued journey.
- If you are staying in hotel accommodation and you do not have a freezer in your room, ask Reception to freeze your Medication Travel Pack in the hotel freezer. If language is a problem, ask that it is placed with the ice cream and not the milk and ensure you say it must be frozen hard.
- It’s a good idea to check prior to travel, you will have a ‘bar fridge’ in your hotel room to store your medication.
- The Medication Travel Pack comes in a drawstring pouch. Keep the drawstring pouch with your handbag or wallet to ensure you remember to remove your Oroxine/Eutroxsig from the refrigerator and retrieve your Medication Travel Pack from the hotel freezer before you leave.
- Do not store your Oroxine/Eutroxsig blister strips in the freezer with your Medication Travel Pack. Your blister strips are to be refrigerated only.
- It is a good idea to place a luggage label on your Medication Travel Pack zipper tag, with your contact details, in case you lose your Medication Travel Pack whilst travelling.
TIPS FOR USING MEDICATION TRAVEL PACK AT HOME
- If it is more convenient for you to take your Oroxine/Eutroxsig before you get out of bed in the morning or because you take other prescribed medications that needs to be taken in the morning, or with breakfast:
- ATF members recommend freezing the Medication Travel Pack during the day and cutting your daily dose of Oroxine/Eutroxsig off the blister, making sure the tablets are still in the blister foil and placing in the MTP before bedtime. Place the MTP on your bedside table with a glass of water, ready to take your Oroxine/Eutroxsig as soon as your eyes are open in the morning, or in the early hours, if you need to take other medications early in the morning.
- Research states you should wait at least 4 hours after taking Oroxine/Eutroxsig before you take other medications.
- A Medication Travel Pack is a great idea to use when having a Thyroid Pathology Test. It is recommended a Thyroid Pathology Test be done as early as possible in the morning (as soon as the Pathologist opens in the morning) and after fasting from your evening meal the night before the test. Do not take your Oroxine/Eutroxsig before a blood test. Take your Oroxine/Eutroxsig with you to the Pathologist in an MTP, with a bottle of water and take your Oroxine/Eutroxsig after the test is complete. Then wait at least 30-60 minutes before breakfast as usual..
The Australian Thyroid Foundation (ATF) recommend The ATF Medication Travel Pack as an aid to control temperature of Thyroid Replacement Hormone, Oroxine and Eutroxsig for the specific time period, if used correctly as per the included instruction sheet. However, to the extent permitted by law no warranty either implied or express, as to its efficiency is given by The ATF for individual use of the ATF Medication Travel Pack and the individual control of medication stored in the pack.
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The mission of The Australian Thyroid Foundation Ltd (ATF) is to offer support, information and education to members and their families through the many services provided by The ATF and raise awareness about health consequences of iodine deficiency and the benefits of good thyroid health.
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