10 Tips for Safe Medications Use

The bathroom medicine chest is a great place for toothbrushes, but not for medications. The kitchen isn't a good place to store meds either. Both the bathroom and kitchen are subject to fluctuations in temperature and humidity -- not good conditions for meds. Both rooms, especially the bathroom, leave your medications accessible to people who visit your home. Remember how people joke about going through other people's medicine chests? Some people really do it. The bathroom and kitchen also leave medications where children may get them. Store your meds someplace not readily accessible to others -- in your dresser, on a high closet shelf, maybe in a lockable box or drawer. Think safety -- yours and that of others. Oh, and don't forget that much of this applies to over-the-counter medications as well.