To anyone receiving any medications shipped by mail, please send us pictures of your packaging. I can only say that this is to help push for change at the federal level. Email Loretta@UniteForSafeMeds.Com
The picture below shows children's transplant medications. Keep in mind that delivery trucks and mailboxes are much hotter than 104 degrees. Studies have shown that they can reach 120 to 170 degrees in the hot summer heat, as many people are forced to mail-order medications for themselves or their children. Most room-temperature medications are stored in only bags. Many people don't know that medications can break down in more ways than potency. Many medications have been recalled due to carcinogens increasing in room-temperature medications when exposed to the same temperatures experienced during shipping.
Include as many photos or details as you feel comfortable in sharing. Please let me know if the packaging included a temperature sensor. Most medications do not include one.
Currently meds are not required to be tested in the same temperatures exposed to during shipping and mail order is left mostly unregulated in terms of temperatures and delays.
Along with a few heroes across our nation are trying to resolve this issue and ensure a safer and faster delivery of life-saving medications. Please be one with us. We need your help to create a safer future of pharmaceutical care for patients and our children.
Again, my email is Loretta@uniteforsafemeds.com
Thank you for your help. Please feel free to share this with as many people as possible.
Loretta Boesing, Patient Advocate