How safe and effective are the medivines stored at home?!


Question:

How safe and effective are the medivines stored at home?

Every house has stocks of medicines either being in use or being left over. The question is how safe and effective they are for use at times of need.

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2 months ago
Expiry date is valid under controlled conditrions of handling and storage like: temperature, humidity, moisture, light etc. Storage beneath a pillow for a night is sufficient to affect the potency of the tablet and worse is that of a capsule. It is assessed that there will be a loss of 1% potency loss with every degree raise in tempr. above the recommended tempr.
Cool place, Cold place, Cold-chain. dark place etc are somne of the storage guidelinbes.
How many of us follow this at home.
We dont forget to put cokes into the frig but ignore insulins.
Whats the fate of a patient who receives such returned stocks from chemists. Lets think of the sick in need of standard potency assured medicine than the economic loss of a person with leftover stock.
Patient has a right to have right medicine with right potency at the right time with right information on storage and use from a right professional person (pharmacist)

2 months ago
The exp date is valid as long as the sealed condition is intact. Once opened who can guarentee the potency over a week or a month.


Answers:

You can have small stock of medicine which u may need in urgency the way u use it - depend of ur mind
And other than cough or cold - and first aid for cuts and bruises - it is not safe to have a self prescription
So other than using - this tablets u can sure depend on home remedies and herbal medicine - with the things u find in ur kitchen and garden -

If u have a stock of medicine - check the expiry date and if it is the correct medicine before u pop it in ur mouth

dont wait more than 12 hrs or over night - with this self prescription -




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