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The medications you should never leave in a hot car this summer

A parked car can exceed 120°F in summer, damaging insulin, EpiPens, and inhalers. The FDA recommends keeping medications out of vehicles during warm months.

Interior of a heavily decorated vehicle with neon lights and clutter, not representative of a hot parked car in summer.
While this car’s interior is packed with lights and decorations, it doesn’t reflect the real danger of leaving medications in a hot, sunlit vehicle — where temperatures can soar to 120°F in minutes. Bushwick Daily image

The medications you should never leave in a hot car this summer

A parked car can exceed 120°F in summer, damaging insulin, EpiPens, and inhalers. The FDA recommends keeping medications out of vehicles during warm months.

The medications you should never leave in a hot car this summer

Leave a pharmacy bag on the passenger seat while you run into the store, and on a hot day you may be cooking your prescriptions. The inside of a parked car can climb past 120 degrees Fahrenheit, or 49 Celsius, within minutes in summer, even when it is not brutally hot outside, and that kind of heat can change the chemistry of certain drugs so they no longer work the way they should. The Spanish-language outlet El Diario laid out which medications are most at risk, drawing on guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the American Diabetes Association.

The FDA warns that heat, humidity and direct sun can damage some medications, and it recommends storing…

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