In the life of any person, even absolutely healthy, a situation may arise when he urgently needs medical assistance (bruises, cuts, colds, etc.). Of course, any medicine can be bought at the nearest pharmacy, but even it may be closed at the right time. And calling an ambulance, for example, because of a cut finger, is not an entirely reasonable act. Therefore, the presence of a first-aid kit is simply necessary in any family.
How to store medicine at home
Before proceeding with the formation of a first-aid kit, you need to understand where you are going to store it. This should be a place where only adult family members have access, and which is completely inaccessible to children. You should not count on the fact that you always look after the children, and you can stop situations when a child takes something without demand. In this case, your arrogance can have very serious and life-threatening consequences.
Do not store the first aid kit in the bathroom (due to high humidity) or in the kitchen (there is always a high temperature). The best place to store the first-aid kit is the mezzanine, the upper shelves of the cabinets. The main thing - not in the sun and not warm.
The second question is which case is best used for storing medicines at home. A box with a lid or a cardboard box is ideal. The case must be spacious so that you can freely decompose all the medicines. It is better when you use several boxes for a home medicine cabinet - in accordance with the purpose of the medicine.
All medicines should be in their original packaging, it is better to store drug annotations not separately, but together with the medicine, so that at the right time everything is at hand. Vials, tubes and vials should be tightly closed. Medicinal herbs are stored separately from other medicines.
The home medicine cabinet should always have the perfect order, so that if you need one or another medicine, you do not have to hurry to look for it among the empty blisters and unwound bandages. About once every six months, the contents of the first-aid kit need to be reviewed, discarded expired drugs and replenish the stock of used ones.
