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Both my kids have EpiPens for severe food allergies.

Daycare has a set for both of them. Then I keep two sets in our diaper bag, which is what I USUALLY take with me when I'm out and about. Now I also have a set in my purse and another set in our beach bag. But I only added those last two when I had to replace the ones at daycare, so I just put the expired ones (that are still effective) in my purse and beach bag.

If you have a bag that you USUALLY have with you for your child, I'd put your EpiPen there. That's our diaper bag for us. I just store them in there. Occasionally I'll take them out and move them to another bag if necessary (when we went on our cruise, they went into my husband's back-pack since we took that on all our excursions).

ETA: I'm sorry you had to get an Epi-Pen. It's scary to have to own one, but you'll get used to it. Hopefully you'll never have to use it!

You can sign up on the Mylan website for a free carrying case, we put our "travel" epipens in there. We have 3 total sets -1 at daycare, 1 stays home in the medicine cabinet, and 1 is in the carrying case in the front of the diaper bag / tote bag we usually bring with us. It was hard to get in the routine of always checking for it at first if we brought a different bag but now its second nature to check for it / move it to the bag we are using at the time! We keep the diaper bag in the mudroom so it's always on our way out that we check the epi pens are still there / where they need to be. Good luck!

@HappyBaker: thanks for the carrying case info- just ordered ours!

@yin: Yes to this - being able to use more than one EpiPen. We keep a 2-pen set everywhere. Xander's class has a whole set (2 Epi-pens), Logan's class has a set, we have two sets in the diaper bag (so 4 Epi-Pens), I have a set in my purse, and a set in our beach bag (the ones in my purse and beach bag are expired, but I'm glad to have them with me just in case I don't have our diaper bag sets for some reason).

I have a brightly colored fabric bag that I keep a set of epi pens, a change of undies and a pair of shorts. This is A's "go-bag" and we grab it every time we are headed out the door. It usually lives in our backpack that we use when we have both kids, but it's easy to grab and throw in my purse if I just have A. It's nice to have all the things I need for her in a single bag so I don't have to check if I have a change of clothes and her pens and everything.

@Charm54: Definitely keep them after the expiration date. They have a window to show you if the fluid is discolored. At one point we had 6, so we lined them all up and could easily tell which ones were significantly discolored, and gave those to the allergist to dispose of properly. I've also heard it is good to use very-expired ones on oranges to get the feel of what it would be like to actually inject someone.

As for carrying them around, do not leave them in your car. They have a narrow temperature range.

@LulaBee: I know you didn't ask me, but yes! I asked for two sets for both my kids, so our Allergist wrote a prescription for 4 Epi-Pens with 3 refills for both kids, so each kid's class has 2 Epi-Pens, and then I have 4 Epi-Pens at home.

@LulaBee: Yeah, just say you need two sets - one to keep at daycare and one for home. Your pediatrician should be totally fine with that!

Just a heads-up, and I don't know if this is a local thing or not, but my Allergist informed me that CVS no longer carries name-brand Epi-Pens or the Mylan generic and only carries the CVS brand generic.