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Home Medicine Cabinets: An Overview

Home Medicine Cabinets: An Overview 1 Mahendra Kumar BJ* , Ganachari MS, Rao GVS, Shilpa SVK, Sowmya M, Kumaraswamy M Department of Pharmacy Practice, SAC College of Pharmacy, BG Nagara, Karnataka INTRODUCTION Virtually in every home, different age group (children, adults and geriatric) populations stay together. You never know when and how illnesses and accidents happen at home. Only a few simple remedies are found in a secure place i.e. out of reach of children, which enable one to cope with first aid in most of minor ailments and incidents. Therefore, it is necessary to get prepared with home medicines cabinets. With good management, a medicine cabinet can be made an important supply of needed remedies and not a health risk. Home medicine cabinet makes a difference between life and death having a designated location where all your medications and emergency supplies are kept. It's a simple thing to do but can help to keep you and your family safe. Pharmacists involvement in medication safety in the home Pharmacist working on a medication management project requires involvement in medication safety at home. The safety has been focused on the dispensing process and ensuring that patients receive the correct drug. Pharmacist may also think about pharmaceutical care and instruct patients how to take the right dose of the right drug at the right time. The pharmacist can assist with sorting medications, identifying those that are no longer required or out of date, and then facilitating its correct disposal. Family members should also be encouraged to assist with working, especially for elderly patients. After dispensing of medications the patient and caregivers have to take the ultimate responsibility for proper usage of their medications at home. Medicine storage Consumers store their medications, in various locations in different rooms, including the kitchen (inside the microwave, on the stove-top, on a sunny windows, in a milk crate under the kitchen table), bathroom (in the medicine cabinet on the back of the toilet, in a cupboard under the leaky sink), linen closet (between layers of sheets), and bedroom under the mattress, behind pillows, in bureau drawers). Many of these locations signal potential safety risks for visiting children, as well as concerns about the integrity of the medication and memory challenges for dose administration. Greater chance of missed doses of regular medications can occur if stored in single place, except if the medications are stored in different locations (e.g., morning medications on the kitchen table and bedtime medications at the bedside). Information about medication storage is an important aspect to be addressed to the patients. Location of home medicine cabinet Eighty-five percent of adults keep medication in at least one location other than their bathroom medicine cabinet, most often the kitchen (62%). Women often have medications 1 stashed in their handbags or briefcases (36%). Bathrooms are often too damp and humid which can break down, degrade or decrease the potency of medicines. The best place for most medication to store is in a dry place away from sunlight. Medicines storage in home medicine cabinet Medications should always be kept in their original packaging so that consumers can easily see the expiration date and follow the information about dosages and warning on the back of the bottle or package. Refilling travel-size bottles or combining medications in one container can mean losing important information. It is important to have both the adult strength and the appropriate strength of children's medicine.