Keeping Your Medicine Cabinet Safe
All medical supplies and prescription medications should be kept
secure. Even something seemingly as safe as aspirin could cause injury
if used incorrectly. Medicines should be reviewed regularly to avoid
possible problems with old medications, which can lose their effectiveness
or even become harmful. When taking inventory of your medicines, please
remember:
- Check expiration dates on all non-prescription
medicines.
- If a non-prescription medicine does
not have an expiration date and you purchased it more than six months
ago, or you can not remember when you bought it, throw it away.
- Discard prescription medicines that
are more than one year old.
- Watch for missing or unclear labels
and discard contents from any found.
- Store medicines in a cool, dark,
dry place.
- Make sure the storage cabinet and
all medicine bottles are out of reach of children.
