Store and Organize Medicine
By Karen
Porter,
Editor
EasyHomeOrganizing.com
It's rare to find people who don't have medicine in their
home these days (even if they don't use it frequently). And organizing your
medicine is the key to knowing what medicine you have when you need it, and of
course, where it is. Having to search your home for that one bottle of aspirin
only exasperates your headache.
First, gather your over-the-counter and prescription medicine
into one location for a quick review. Read the expiration dates. Discard every
expired medicine. (Five-year-old foot fungal cream may not be effective today.
And when you have a 24-hour flu, it's not time to discover if medicine that
expired two years ago is just as potent today.)
Now cluster your prescription medicines into one bin,
container or decorative tin. Separate labeled containers for each family member are okay too. Put
the general non-prescription medicine in another tin (e.g. cold medicine,
laxatives, heartburn medicine). Keep the bin(s) somewhere accessible (but out of
reach of children or grandchildren).
But remember that bathroom temperatures can sometimes be
unsuitable for medication storage (except for perhaps a general first aid
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