Is glutose commonly available at US drugstores? The online place wants $11 for a packet and that is simply outrageous.
Glutose? What is it?
$11 for glucose is a little steep.
A lemon-flavored sugar paste you use for diabetics who collapse. It is heat-stable and good to have in your first-aid kit.
(I thought I had some, but today I did an inventory and it was gone.)
Glutose is apparently a brand name of glucose.
$11 per packet does seem rather high.
Glutose is an expensive, flavored, glucose gel.
I’d just buy a kg of glucose, and mix in a little kool-aid powder: 5 grams per teaspoonful.
So I googled it. Glutose looks like what we carry on the ambulance, but our’s is a different brand and cherry flavored. Vile stuff, too.
Drugstore.com had it in a pack of 3 tubes for $11, which seems a little more reasonable, at least in the States. I paid $4 for the pack of tablets I have in my desk, and I have no clue what the rescue squad pays for our gel.
YMWV in the land of sand.
Would the Gel products (GU, PowerBar Gel, Hammer Gel, etc.) made for athletes be suitable? They come in small ~35g foil packages of ~100 calories for about $2 each.
A lot of these products have various proprietary “Vitamin” or “Antioxidant”, or “Herbal” blends mixed in. But PowerBar has a “Plain Energy” flavor that is mostly free of such things. It’s ingredient list is: Maltodextrin, Filtered Water, Fructose, Powerbar Electrolyte Blend (Sodium Chloride, Sodium Citrate, Potassium Chloride), Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate, and Potassium Sorbate (to retard spoilage), Natural Flavors.
These have a “best by” date, but I’ve had some long past and they still are fine.
I want something I can keep in my first-aid kit in my (very hot) car just about forever. I suppose it can wait until I get home to get some. My quick-clot has expired too.