Monitor the shelf life of tablets and always have at hand the necessary medicines.
Each house has a specific place which allocated to medicines and called “kit”. Often it’s filled with drugs and other medical products that are left over from the treatment of previously transferred diseases Sometimes the drugs are inherited from the visiting relatives.
Gradually, the Cabinet is filled with unnecessary drugs with expired validity term. Often it turns out that the basic necessities there is, unfortunately, no.
There are many different recommendations that you need to have in the home medicine Cabinet. You can immediately discard the list of Soviet times, because they are outdated. Now every year there are many new drugs and old ones become obsolete. Lists taken from foreign sources, is also unlikely to be useful, as the range of pharmacies and principles of treatment can be very different. It is best to get information from modern domestic sources. Well, when there is a familiar doctor or pharmacist who will tell you how best to complete the kit.
You must know that when buying drugs you can not fully trust advertising and to believe in the beautiful promises. You need to apply, as in many situations of life, knowledge and logic, and life experience, and understand that the contents of the first aid kit is very important for you and your family. And under certain conditions, may even save a life.
What you must have in the medicine Cabinet? The first step is to remember what troubles most often happen with your health:
• a cold, runny nose, sore throat;
• allergies;
• bruises, cuts, burns, abrasions;
• sweating of the feet;
• diarrhea, constipation;
• heartburn, flatulence;
• stress, irritability and fatigue;
• pain in the heart area, insomnia;
• pain and cramps.
Of course, in all these States is required to consult a doctor, but for the first help to facilitate health, you need to have something on hand. In the kit necessarily need a dressing materials: cotton wool, bandages, sterile wipes, band-AIDS, q-tips, and tools for the treatment of wounds and burns: hydrogen peroxide, iodine and brilliant green. You can stock up on ointments for healing, as well as from injuries. In the kit you should put a few disposable syringes, pipettes, thermometer, syringe, medical gloves, finger cots. Should also be warmer.
When sweating feet need to have pasta Teymurova, oak bark. For first aid if poisoning should have activated charcoal sachets Smecta. If you have pains in your heart, then you need to be validol, Corvalol, Valerian. In case of fainting the necessary ammonia. In the medicine Cabinet store also painkillers, selecting them individually.
Acute rhinitis use drops in the nose naphazoline or cold. To alleviate colds, aid you need to have one of the following drugs: “Farmatsitron”, “Fervex” “Antigrippin”, vitamin C, and aspirin or paracetamol. Well, when the first-aid kit herbs: Linden flowers, calendula, chamomile or eucalyptus leaves. To eliminate sore and sore throat good idea to use tablets or lozenges, which resolves in the oral cavity, for example, “Prescribed” or “Strepsils”. For the prevention of viral infections applies oxolinic ointment. In stock you must also have a little bit of mustard.
If necessary, a home kit you can keep the Allergy medication and anti-allergic external funds in the form of ointments. But you must know that rash may occur with various diseases. If you are not sure that it is an Allergy, it is best to seek the advice of a doctor.
