DIY Belt Pack Carrier for Adrenaclick Epinephrine Auto Injector

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When the EpiPen shortage began in 2018, our pharmacy started giving us “generic EpiPens.” Several times I pointed out how different they were from the regular EpiPens: I was told that was because they were the generic version. Over a year later I finally figured out what the pharmacy was actually giving us were generic Adrenaclicks.  (When you watch the how-to video that goes along with these pattern pieces, you will hear me referring to EpiPens because I still hadn’t found out that my kids were actually carrying Adrenaclicks. It took me several days to design the pattern, film the video and upload the video, so my apologies that I just don’t have the time to redo everything for the proper name of the auto-injector).

Meanwhile, one of my sons started refusing to wear the new auto-injectors. The Adrenaclicks were smaller than EpiPens and they floated around in the belt carrier he usually wore. I couldn’t find anything suitable for the smaller design, so I designed my own. This design is much sleeker and discrete than the larger belt packs for the regular EpiPens.

You can make your own pattern with a strip of paper that measures 19″ long by 5″wide, or you can print out the two piece pattern and glue it together.

Adrenaclick Belt Pack Pattern Piece 1

Belt Pack Pattern Piece 2

It took me a few days and several tries to come up with this design. I had a half yard of black rip-stop nylon left over from another project. You could use a different sturdy fabric, but if the fabric is any thicker than nylon, you may need to adjust the seams a bit to make up the difference.

You can buy all of the materials at a craft or yard goods store. I cannibalized the webbing for the straps from an old ripped up backpack I happened to have.

You will need:

Rip-stop nylon fabric or other sturdy fabric

Interfacing

2″ sew on velcro (or just sew two 1 inch pieces side to side)

Nylon webbing for straps

Thread

All seams are 3/4″