Flu and cold season is about to start and it’s time to take stock of your family’s medicine cabinet, so when a need arises we don’t go rushing to the drugstore or mistakenly using old medications. Out with the old, in with the new!
1. Get rid of expired medicines. Check for missing original labels, and missing expiration dates. Discard them and everything older than six months. Check your first aid kit and see what gels (burn; antibiotic) need throwing away as well. As parent to allergic kids, I make sure the Epipen (epinephrine injector) for my children is not …read more