"Take insulin, for example."* *Not medical advice.
@lakrids-pibe2 ай бұрын
Take my mother-in-law for example. ... I mean it. Take her!
@KaiHenningsen2 ай бұрын
Well, the most common problem is that insulin (a protein) "denatures". Like when heating egg-white (which originally is transparent almost like water), the stuff begins looking "milky". If you look at a cartridge and it looks milky, you know it's gone bad. But it takes an astonishing amount of effort (or stupidity) to get to that point-
@farfaraway87382 ай бұрын
Does she speaks too much or is she aggressive? 😂@@lakrids-pibe
@RockyPeroxide2 ай бұрын
@@KaiHenningsen Thank you! As a diabetic, I love this!
@dbteepo862 ай бұрын
@@lakrids-pibeGod took mine and I had never been happier
2 ай бұрын
In old houses, the medicine cabinets sometimes have a slit in the back for you to drop the blade from your safety razor after you shave. The cabinets I've seen don't have any way to clear out the old blades short of ripping the cabinet out of the wall. It's kinda crazy that some houses have a big pile of razor blades just sitting there behind the wall.
@smartyhall2 ай бұрын
With the kind of steel they were made of, you'd have a pile of mostly just rust after not too long. The really scary image though is when you realize that in a lot of those really old houses the blades would end up in the crawl space instead, ready to surprise anyone working under the house.
@robertheinkel62252 ай бұрын
@@Jwellsuhhuh it was designed for razor blade disposal. Showing m age here, but it was common growing up.
@Jwellsuhhuh2 ай бұрын
@@robertheinkel6225 what do you do once it fills up?
@smears60392 ай бұрын
@@Jwellsuhhuhsell your house
@Jwellsuhhuh2 ай бұрын
@@smears6039 💀
@BootLipHarris2 ай бұрын
There are no gloves in my glove compartment.
@100GTAGUY2 ай бұрын
I take it you live in a rather temperate climate, i only ever put gloves in mine once i moved up north. Its nice not having to walk back in the house to get gloves to clear snow off my truck
@Hugh.Manatee2 ай бұрын
Exactly this. I have one of those cabinets in my bathroom; the door mirror allows me to angle the mirror and I store toothpaste, mouth wash, full bottles of shampoo (because they are cheaper on sale if you buy 3 or 4), cotton pads and stuff like that, but no gloves.. I mean medicine
@Toshikills2 ай бұрын
@@100GTAGUY I do the same, but for the opposite reason. Sometimes my steering wheel is too hot to touch and I have to wear gloves to drive home.
@Hugh.Manatee2 ай бұрын
@@100GTAGUY If it's that cold I would be wearing a coat leaving the house. My gloves are in the pockets of my winter coat. The glove box is really inconvenient to get to from the driver seat and I want my gloves with me when I go out in my backyard to clean off snow too. I mean you do you, but living in a cold climate, I don't know anyone who keeps gloves in their glove compartment. It's usually insurance and registration papers. My parents still have CDs in there. No gloves though.
@shakeyj45232 ай бұрын
@@Hugh.Manatee Wow, you have a really big Medicine Cabinet.
@test740882 ай бұрын
Prilosec and Nexium are proton pump inhibitors, Ranitidine is an H2 histamine receptor antagonist. Just because they are all "heartburn medications" does not mean they are interchangeable substitutes for each other if you are using it for other things like histamine release or metabolism disorders, allergies, bee sting kits that include H1 and H2 antihistamines etc. I thought it was very interesting when I learned that some bee keepers have "heartburn" meds in their first aid kit and also that one of the effects of histamine is to tell your body to make a bunch of stomach acid, presumably to kill whatever bad thing you possibly just ate. It might make an interesting video to cover some of the medications that have been replaced with newer drugs with entirely different mechanisms and the ways the previous ones are still used. Cromolyn is another example that I think was the first asthma medication and is still used for other things but usually not asthma.
@lindaseel99862 ай бұрын
I did not know that and it makes so much sense for the H2 inhibitor is part of a bee keeper's med kit. I agree that an episode about this would be interesting. Thanks. 👍👍
@snowwonder98142 ай бұрын
Yeah, the chemistry of medicine and how the same chemical’s uses can change is wild. Like Botox, derived from a bacterial toxin, originally a migraine treatment, and now primarily used as a cosmetic treatment.
@erink4762 ай бұрын
As a person who has heartburn but only occasionally, I was somewhat unimpressed with the alternatives available the first time I went to buy ranitidine and it wasn't there. They all seemed to be take every day type pills that would take up to a week to work (but with warnings to talk to your doctor if you get heartburn for more than a fortnight?), not take as needed pills like ranitidine was. I use Gaviscon now, but that can be annoying if my heartburn is after dinner, because I tend to eat fairly close to bedtime and the layer of alginate doesn't work too well if you're lying down. Plus the measuring cups are hard to get clean, and the chewable tablets get all stuck in my teeth.
@thomaswilliams22732 ай бұрын
@@erink476You might want to try baking soda. Add 1/2 to 1 teaspoon ( I believe that would be 2.5 to 5 ml) to a small glass of water, stir and drink. It will taste a bit salty so follow it with another drink of water. The only issue I've found is that it will make you burp.
@Stonebrick2 ай бұрын
As a fibromyalgia patient I was given a medication that was originally used for depression treatment- it ends up helping with muscle relaxation and improves sleep. Also gives you a bit of a fuzzy happy 😅
@scanmead2 ай бұрын
Just change the name. Mine's full of hair products, bandaids, comb, brush, toothpaste, mouthwash .... the pills go in the kitchen... where all the stuff that goes in your mouth is. 🤷♀️ I like the little cabinet on the wall with a mirror.
@chickadeestevenson54402 ай бұрын
vanity cabinet?
@croozerdog2 ай бұрын
mouthwash is bad :(
@birb73532 ай бұрын
@@croozerdog It is? Do you have an explanation and/or further reading on the matter?
@telegramsam2 ай бұрын
@@birb7353 maybe they mean the taste...
@croozerdog2 ай бұрын
@@birb7353 im trying to link you, I learned it from dutch public broadcast but youtube is either not showing me my own comment or getting secretly removed in their bronk anti bot system -.- i just clicked one of the first links that didn't seem like it wanted to sell you stuff, askthedentist. The best you can do and the thing they also did in the program is literally asking your dentist. even the assistant answering the phone was surprised to learn her boss discouraged it. the marketing claims it cleans your mouth, because it does, but that isn't a good thing unless you have unwanted bacterial infections. the people who made it didn't use it themselves and said they're making a product to feel clean rather than make you clean.
@darkwillow572 ай бұрын
At first I thought he said zantac broke down into MDMA so I was about to go steam my bottle. 😂😅
@thtrausan12 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@lindatisue7332 ай бұрын
😂😮😅then 😢
@monicafelstead32602 ай бұрын
I did a double-take too lol
@My-Oak9 күн бұрын
Every time I hear NMDA I do an auditory double take, it's like a spoonerism lol I swear it's wrong and right at the same time, they're almost homonyms
@fakjbf31292 ай бұрын
1:03 I’m one of those people! And yes it is an incredibly dull job, mostly because manufacturers are pretty good at making stable products and packaging so the vast majority of the reports we send back are just long winded ways of saying “Yep, still good”. But sometimes we get to do fun things like seeing what happens when you perform the testing at 35°C with 90% humidity, yay!
@HerzoginLina2 ай бұрын
I think that's a cool job to have! 😅
@helenjohnston31782 ай бұрын
Analytical chemist & microbiologist are everyday heros keeping all our food, drugs, water .... safe.
@jandavac2 ай бұрын
Hi, I'm also working on stability studies :) Not a dull job for me, we get (unfortunately) a lot of excitement with some products. Though I work directly at the manufacturing site, so I then sometimes get to go through the issues with the product team and develop a safer, more stable product.
@fakjbf31292 ай бұрын
@@jandavac Yeah I’m in a third party company so the vast majority of issues have already been ironed out by the time the samples get to my team, which is both a blessing and a curse.
@LawTaranis2 ай бұрын
I want to do the job. Boring jobs means I can think about D&D more effectively at work! 😂
@jon91032 ай бұрын
My current house doesn't even have a medicine cabinet but when i had one, i didn't stored medicine in it (the exception being topical drugs like tiger balm). I used it for storing toiletries like toothpaste.
@elisa.llew-send2 ай бұрын
“Don’t go based on vibes”, well there go my life plans…
@stitchfinger76782 ай бұрын
Go based on vibes for things like "which shirt is more me" and "is this date going well" Go based on numbers for things like "is this pill expired" and "will that kill me" 😁
@ScionStorm12 ай бұрын
Medical Vibe Check
@TrippyTrash19992 ай бұрын
Same
@erikhesjedal35692 ай бұрын
That probably works out well for you, being a woman and all
@andrewgraves40262 ай бұрын
My SOP is everything but tetracycline is safe but a bit weaker after the expiration date, that’s how safe they’re keeping us. But the “changes color or smells funny” is a good common sense clarification. Kinna like using milk, for best results use before becoming putrid or changes state of matter.
@sarielle852 ай бұрын
In Europe and in other parts of the worlds, tablettes and pills always come in blister packages, so humidity is not that much of a concern, as they are watertight. And in Central and Northern Europe flats and houses usually don't come with an A/C, so every room, that has a window may heat up siginificantly in the summer. The bathroom is often on the inside without a window and is the room with the least temperature fluctuation. In older houses, where the water water is heated on the spot with a boiler or flow heater, the cabinet is usually on the wall, where the cold water pipes run through, so it's passively cooled.
@Carewolf2 ай бұрын
Yeah, temperature fluctuation can do just as much damage if not more. Stable is good.
@jacqslabzАй бұрын
I wonder if that has to do with how medicine cabinets got started?
@vanillablossomАй бұрын
Not really, it depends on what you keep in your cabinet. While I agree most medicine is in the blisters in Europe, while buying supplements (they are also either tablettes or pills, after all) I can easily get them in a bottle or self standing doypack pouch and I prefer the bottle for the supplements.
@helgijonsson3537Ай бұрын
@@vanillablossomyeah but who's gonna kill themselves with vitamins lol
@AnneHelms-qd9eg14 күн бұрын
True! In Northern Europe many houses are also insulated well to prevent heat loss, so the windows bring in a LOT of heat on sunny days.
@emmakai22432 ай бұрын
Keeping medicine in the bathroom never made sense to me, but never thought about the humidity/temp. My priorities were/are about privacy, safety, and security.
@donaldwert71372 ай бұрын
Security is definitely a concern. A visitor to my house took a prescription medicine from my medicine cabinet. That was the last time he was allowed in the house and the last time I kept a med like that in the medicine cabinet.
@longiusaescius25372 ай бұрын
Huh
@laratheplanespotter2 ай бұрын
@@donaldwert7137I’ve also had this problem. I’m on some pretty strong pain medication and I found that someone I invited over had helped herself to a strip of my oxy. I was furious and let’s say, she’s no longer my friend.
@LordOfElysium2 ай бұрын
@@laratheplanespotter If I found out someone I knew stole some of my painkillers I would keep the upset part to myself and instead ask they “hey dude are you okay????? There something you need to talk about?”
@3nertia2 ай бұрын
@@LordOfElysium That person is likely literally only your friend because they know you have drugs xD
@HappyfoxBiz2 ай бұрын
Australia has 90% of it's medications packaged in sheets which protects it from moisture, for pain medication it has a tendency to swell and break the foil of the sheet making it noticable, if your medication has done that on it's own, best to just throw the entire sheet out and check the expiration date
@uncroppedsoop2 ай бұрын
in that order?
@danacoleman4007Ай бұрын
@@uncroppedsoop😂👍
@My-Oak9 күн бұрын
You would throw out an entire sheet of pain medicine? Dude I hope you mean paracetamol because actual pain medicine is so hard to get lol* *Coming from the US, I know in canada there's some low dose codeine OTC, as a chronic pain patient after a tree fell on me god I wish we had laxer pain management.
@smitehamner2 ай бұрын
With the point on how to reduce the humidity in the bathroom, you should be running the fan for more reasons than just preserving the medicines a bit longer. You also don't particularly want to encourage mold growth in your bathroom.
@shrimpbisque2 ай бұрын
I don't keep my meds in the bathroom, but I run the fan when I shower anyway. A bonus effect is it makes my mirror fog up less.
@langly272 ай бұрын
Not all bathrooms have fans though
@smitehamner2 ай бұрын
@@langly27 If your bathroom has no ventilation, you may want to remedy that. If it's ventilation is just an open-able window, that's better than nothing, but not quite as useful as a fan.
@Pr0toPoTaT02 ай бұрын
Wtf @@langly27
@arkhykatenka2 ай бұрын
but what if I'm growing penicillin in my medicine cabinet?
@QueenetBowie2 ай бұрын
I’m a type 1 diabetic who used to be a beach lifeguard, I’d keep my insulin pens in my bag on the stand with me, no ice packs or anything, and despite the hot summer heats they’d generally hold up well for weeks. I’d notice some slight drops in the impact, like maybe I’d need to take 1 extra unit, but it was amazing to me bc I’d always been told growing up to keep them cool and do not let them get hot.
@juliav.mcclelland24152 ай бұрын
In none of the households I've lived in did people keep pills in the bathroom. In every household I've lived in, they're kept in the kitchen or the user's purse. I keep my 101 yr old grandfather's 6 meds on the top shelf in his closet and fill his pill tray every Sunday.
@vlmellody512 ай бұрын
I keep my meds on my dresser, which is also where I fill my weekly pill organizer. It keeps them cool and dry without having in an inconvenient place.
@loki22402 ай бұрын
Thank you for helping your grandfather. We'll all need that kind of help, if we live long enough.
@RobinTheBot2 ай бұрын
The purse isn't much better if you go outside though!
@matt92hun2 ай бұрын
I assumed it was just a weird game mechanic for healing in the game Mafia.
@MrNicoJac2 ай бұрын
I know some older houses/people who do keep medication there. But basically the only thing I've seen there for people my generation is birth control pills (the daily ones, not emergency). Mayyybe with some painkillers, but rarely...
@Beryllahawk2 ай бұрын
Oh you got my FULL attention when you said "Ranitidine." My husband used to take that quite a lot, and I didn't realize it had vanished... (not least because the doctors changed him first to lansoprazole (aka Prevacid), and then changed AGAIN to pantoprazole/Protonix) I did know about the heat/humidity thing, which is why most of our medications have a nice little spot in a drawer or bedroom cabinet or that kind of thing. We don't actually have medicine cabinets, but I suspect that's because this old place has "cover the whole wall" mirrors in the bathroom -.- I very much appreciate the way you clarified all this too! It's important to know what to look for and just as important to know what your actual RISK is! Listen to your pharmacist folks, and read your labels.
@ihopeitsnotasamsquanch2 ай бұрын
"That little cabinet guests like to snoop through so you put marbles in it to catch them..."
@steve_put_this_here2 ай бұрын
If the comments section is any indicator, the alternative place people keep their meds is the kitchen - also a room that experiences temperature/humidity swings due to cooking and not exactly an optimal alternative! People in general are notoriously bad in how they manage their meds - leaving them in a purse or console of a hot car, taking the desiccant pack out of the bottle because they get annoyed about how it always shakes out of the bottle before the pills...
@PanthereaLeonis2 ай бұрын
I live in a studio apartment, so I don't have much of a choice, but at least I keep my meds the furthest away from the stove that I can! Even when I'm cooking though, the temperature very rarely climbs above 24C-25C and running the overhead fan usually keeps the humidity down. The alternative is keeping my meds in one of the cupboards above my bed, but that is far more inconvenient.
@Unfortunately_Mickey2 ай бұрын
I keep em by my bed so I don't have to get up to take them lol
@MonkeyJedi992 ай бұрын
My meds occupy the top of the dresser in my bedroom. Better temperature and humidity range, no direct sunlight, and helps remind me to take them when I wake up.
@kathorsees2 ай бұрын
Tbh, I still think it's incomparable. The bathroom can get so humid there's drops of water on the walls. I've never seen a kitchen get that humid. Also, kitchens are usually a bit bigger, sometimes connecting directly to the living room, with no door at all, etc. So I don't think it can get as bad as a bathroom.
@danikim2352 ай бұрын
@@kathorsees Kitchens also usually have windows while bathrooms don't, unless you live in a house (all the apartments I lived in had a "blind" bathroom). There are cooker hoods to help with the hot fumes. I'd say in general, there is better ventilation in a kitchen versus a bathroom.
@DarthGTB2 ай бұрын
I've never thought too much about it, but we do not call it a medicine cabinet here in Brazil. We usually call it either just "cabinet" or "the little door in the bathroom" or "the mirror door" or something like that
@DarthGTB2 ай бұрын
we do not store medicine in it, BTW. It's just where we put all the bathroom stuff like toothbrush, deodorant, razor, etc.
@rafaelwippich73412 ай бұрын
true
@robertocapocchi83792 ай бұрын
Isso, isso!
@angelachouinard45812 ай бұрын
@@DarthGTB Even though I'm over 70 I don't take any medicine , I just keep some OTC stuff in the first aid kit. So I use the cabinet like you do, for soap and shampoo and toothpaste & brush.
@loki22402 ай бұрын
In Louisiana, we call it "FaceTime with Candyman." 😂
@SilverionX2 ай бұрын
In Sweden you get a special bag from the pharmacy that you put all your used medicines in and return to the pharmacy. They have a responsibility to accept old meds (with some exceptions).
@nixi-bixi2 ай бұрын
UK we don't get a bag but pharmacies have a duty to take any meds, expired or not if for example someone's meds have changed. I actually have a couple of meds I need to take to the pharmacy but need to wait for a rare good mobility day, I get my meds delivered but the pharmacy assistant who delivers my meds aren't allowed to take them from me when delivering my current meds to take back to the pharmacy. I get why, but it's difficult when you have limited mobility and live alone.
@escha_b2 ай бұрын
OH MY GOD. IF ONLY.
@oksanakaido84372 ай бұрын
I do wonder what they do with those meds though? It would be nice if they actually had a safer way of disposing them that doesn't involve them ending up in the water/sewer system or in a landfill somewhere, but I'm not so sure they do.
@MiniCalicifer2 ай бұрын
@nixi-bixi I live in the UK too and everytime I've tried taking my unused medicines back they look at me confused with no idea about the scheme and most of them make a specific point to throw it in their normal bin in front of me with full eye contact ...safe to say I don't bother anymore😂
@VictorDude982 ай бұрын
@@oksanakaido8437 They burn it in special facilities because it gets REALLY harmful when it mixes with other meds
@wezul2 ай бұрын
No, we absolutely do not store medicine in the medicine cabinet. Not because the bathroom is a bad place for medicine, though. One, we need that storage space for other, bathroom-related things, like leave-in conditioner, moisturizer, hair brush, etc. And two, we have WAAAAY too much medication to fit in that cabinet. It takes up a whole drawer (18x20x10 inches) and is so full it's hard to get the drawer open.
@thegreatunknown80752 ай бұрын
I'm sorry that seems like a huge pain in the ass
@tomaccino2 ай бұрын
What on earth, why do you need a whole pharmacy at home? I keep exactly zero medication. The last pill of paracetamol I've owned was probably 6 years ago. Just take a hot shower for headache! I don't understand pill poppers, they seem to be their own pharmacist 😂😂
@keythealien2 ай бұрын
@@tomaccino some people have bigger problems than a wittle headache sometimes, tommy. And why would I take a shower for the second time today when I could just take some Excedrin? Hot water isn't good for your skin, honey, dries you out. Why don't you go do your homework or something while the adults talk, yeah?
@wezul2 ай бұрын
@@tomaccino Just take a shower for a headache? One, that assumes my headaches can be abated by showers (they can't) and two, that's a hell of a lot of water to waste for those of us who get headaches almost daily. So what I'm hearing from you is, you have no first aid supplies, and no serious health issues. Good for you! (?)
@jasminecollins8972 ай бұрын
@@tomaccino are you really totally unaware that a lot of people have multiple health problems and that they often require a whole bunch of doctor prescribed or recommended meds and supplements?
@anathardayaldar2 ай бұрын
"store in a cool dry place." Me too, bro. I need a cool dry place too.
@333rpd2 ай бұрын
That cabinet in the bathroom is for tooth brushes, hairbrushes etc. Meds, firstaid, etc are in a cabinet in the kitchen. :)
@empoleonmaster67092 ай бұрын
Smart thinking! You're also more likely to dangerously injure yourself in/by the kitchen than the bathroom unless it's a slip and fall in which case bandaids aren't gonna help you there.
@LucidLuci6662 ай бұрын
i keep my meds on top of the fridge ive never thought of a cabinet in a bathroom as a medicine cabinet
@MmntoMorrisson2 ай бұрын
some bot stole your comment and got more likes...
@HweolRidda2 ай бұрын
@@LucidLuci666on top of the fridge? The fridge is a heat pump that pulls heat from inside to the surrounding. Depending on the design, the top of the fridge will be warmer than the room.
@MonkeyJedi992 ай бұрын
Another bonus to putting your toothbrush in the medicine cabinet, it reduces (but doesn't fully eliminate) the toothbrush's exposure to fecal bacteria wafted about when you poo and flush. And people laughed when Monk poured boiling water over his toothbrush before using it.
@CatatonicImperfect2 ай бұрын
00:32 that stock photographer needs to change his toothbrushes more often
@terryenby23042 ай бұрын
We have a first aid cupboard in the kitchen? But it’s mostly sealed bandages and dressings. Considering the high rate of potential accidents on offer in a kitchen, it just made sense to me to keep supplies there. For example if a burn is sustained that needs further treatment, after keeping it under running water for 20 minutes, the burn safe dressings are within arms reach of the kitchen sink.
@qOEGkfXJdEYrcHmBV4Rj2 ай бұрын
Yeah my family has had everything from first aid to pill bottles in a kitchen cabinet in one of the corners of it and I never thought much of it
@VideoNozoki2 ай бұрын
I'm glad kitchens don't contain running water, garbage, spills, food, pets, visitors, insects, rodents, young children, or any other thing that might damage (the same things a person might put in a medicine cabinet).
@kashiichan2 ай бұрын
@@VideoNozokiYou might want to re-read the original comment again. The first aid kit in the kitchen is inside a cupboard; that's two protective layers.
@MonkeyJedi992 ай бұрын
Growing up, we had a kitchen cabinet half given over to first aid supplies, and a poison treatment chart with the phone number of the poison treatment center taped to the inside of the cabinet door.
@kathorsees2 ай бұрын
@@VideoNozokiTo be fair, if a kitchen is that bad, I don't think anyone should be eating, cooking or just being there. I can also hardly imagine chopping up veggies or boiling a pot of stew inside my kitchen cabinet next to the pills. But hey, maybe I just need to get bigger kitchen cabinets 🤔
@fintux2 ай бұрын
1. Do *not* "toss out" medicine. They need to be disposed of properly, at least where I live (Finland) that is by taking them back to the pharmacy in their original packaging. 2. I've not ever seen a medicine cabinet in a bathroom in my life, that just doesn't seem to be thing in Finland. OTOH, we quite often don't have AC, so the indoor temperatures can get to 30C in the summer in any room.
@KaspYAR2 ай бұрын
Wrapping medicine in a towel and putting it in the back of a cupboard is how we help keep them cool in my household in Australia (we also don't have an air conditioner)
@dontworry13022 ай бұрын
In my hometown in the US the police and fire departments each do a medicine collection every six months so every three months there is a push to clean out old medicines. You're still welcome to bring them in anytime though. Never really considered bringing them back to a pharmacy although I'm not on any prescriptions so I don't consider pharmacies much at all.
@chere1002 ай бұрын
Only 30C? Must be nice to live somewhere cool. Where I live there's no way you're getting less than 40C indoors during summer, if you don't have AC. So everyone does, lol.
@fintux2 ай бұрын
@@chere100 yeah, but the thing is, still most people don't have AC here. More and more do, since the summer weather has become more erratic, and as practically all AC units sold here work also as heat pumps, they serve as a back up heating method provided you have something else than direct electric heating, and in the case of direct electric heating, will save you a lot of money. But you can't always have those installed - if you live in a rental, or can't get the permission from the home owner's association equivalent etc. Or just plain can't afford. @KaspYAR, the towel trick probably would work, but we have relatively humid air, often outdoor relative humidity reaches 100%, so you would have to be careful to not get mold. You would prbably need to have a plastic container on a table for that. Good trick to have though, in case of some medicine being really tricky with the temperature. And reminds me, the pharmacies sell travel containers for medicines that work on the evaporation heat dissipation, which might be handy, though I think they might cool the medicines even a bit too much, closer to fridge temperatures.
@bobbun96302 ай бұрын
@@chere100 You had exactly the same thought I did reading this comment, lol.
@aaron_111112 ай бұрын
Having worked in social care (delivering and coordinating it) medicine cabinets are great as it is often an obvious place for the patient, visiting care staff and medical prescribers. It lessens the risk of stock outs or incorrect administration as keeping them in one (or 2) location(s) makes it easier to keep track of them. Sometimes special storage like refrigeration is required so that makes two storage areas. The absolute worst case is medications stored across a property (especially if there are frequent changes to prescriptions or frequent hospital admissions (where the patient returns home with a new set of medications which superspeed previous ones)). Once there are agreed places of storage that can be noted in care plans, doctor records and pharmacy records as required to minimise medication administration issues.
@escha_b2 ай бұрын
I use to religiously keep all my medications in one place. But I fell behind checking the expiration date and with numerous med changes and dosage changes it got really out of hand. I’ve managed to put one of each daily (ORAL) med in one container and one of each (ORAL) PRN med in another that I keep next to my bed… but I’m constantly loosing track of refills when I can’t combine them with the few pills left in one bottle, or when the packaging is not the normal sized pill bottle (odt packaging, 1 pill per packet because there’s only brand name and they can make it as fancy to add to the surcharge. Liquid medicine that never fits anywhere. Oh and topical medication 🙃. At least I always know my biologics are in the fridge. ) I’ll run out of some meds because I think I have more in another place but more often I refill meds and then realize I had 3 other full bottles. I’m the most knowledgeable polypharmacy pt and yet just the other week I forgot to add THE BIG WHITE PILL IVE TAKEN FOR YEARS to my pill box.
@ooooneeeeАй бұрын
That one place doesn't need to be in the bathroom though. The bedside cabinet makes more sense.
@andrewdonatelli69532 ай бұрын
The only medicine we keep in the medicine cabinet is stuff like polysporin, nasal spray or skin creams. Pills are stored in the kitchen because that's where we keep the glasses. We store insulin in the fridge.
@emperorjj12 ай бұрын
wait. you are telling me you dont: 1. fill a glass with water. 2. put said glass down on the counter. 3. go to the bathroom. 4. forget life. 5. 20 minutes later go back to the bathroom then kitchen and finally take the medicine.
@andrewdonatelli69532 ай бұрын
@@emperorjj1 Yeah, and then wonder why my headache won't go away.
@jonathantan24692 ай бұрын
These were what they were originally meant for. Back then in the early 20th century, these topical non-ingestibles would be stored in these bathroom medicine cabinets.
@StardustandMadness2 ай бұрын
Mine is just extra storage in a tiny bathroom, holding my skincare, toothpaste, deodorant and some of my makeup. I keep my medicines either in my kitchen cabinet (furthest from the stove) or by my bed.
@Nylak-Otter2 ай бұрын
I don't have a medicine cabinet anyway. I'm a transplant recipient, so I have a *TON* of meds I need to take thrice daily. I store medication bottles in an independent drawer in my kitchen walk-in, and my med organizer filled with pills for the week is on the kitchen island. First aid kits are kept clipped to the wall in my basement stairwell and near the front door, extra medical storage is kept in a closet by the front door near the first aid kit, and a full trauma kit is kept in my truck in the garage for first response emergencies on the road or in the home so it's always with me. I've also got a small mini-fridge in my front door closet for chilled meds and animal vaccinations, etc.
2 ай бұрын
Remember to change out the meds in the trauma kit frequently! (In case you don't already know) Vehicles get way hotter than the bathroom, and they also get really cold. Temp fluctuations can also break down adhesives.
2 ай бұрын
On rereading, given that you have a minifridge specifically for meds, you probably already know...
@redhotmoon16562 ай бұрын
Ranitadine was my go to med. ☹️ It was only $6/ bottle and it WORKED. the study when this all happened only said that it COULD increase the cancer risk if temps reached advice 200°F. I was so mad that it got pulled if out takes that kind of extreme.
@jeffrey13122 ай бұрын
You are exactly correct. The original paper said they stored it at 55C (130F) for a month to generate NDMA. Later tests showed that somewhat lower temps and longer times would also work. But in anything like normal temperatures or normal times it really wasn't a problem.
@brianb.63562 ай бұрын
100% agree. PPIs also work fine for me so I wasn't *too* mad, but man ranitidine was so much better than other H2 blockers. And there are good concrete reasons to prefer H2 blockers over PPIs, most especially that H2 blockers work quickly and PPIs don't. There are also some studies that imply that taking a PPI for very long periods of time can have some concerning long term side effects, which while it concerns me less overall also is very ironic in this situation.
@CharlotteRaine2 ай бұрын
Pepcid (famotidine) works so much better though. -lady who accidentally took 5 year old expired ranitidine stored in the bathroom while pregnant
@GODDAMNLETMEJOIN2 ай бұрын
The best part is that heartburn causes cancer too! So you're saving yourself from trace quantities of a probable carcinogen so your body can instead cook itself into cancer instead!
@ashdragon40002 ай бұрын
@@CharlotteRainePepcid works so much better FOR YOU. Medicines don't work on everybody the same way.
@unifairsum212 ай бұрын
I've always kept my meds on my desk in my room only things I keep in the medicine cabinet are like bandaids and gauze
@R_C4202 ай бұрын
I love the old ones with a razor blade disposal slot that just drops between the walls.
@KC9UDX2 ай бұрын
I made a metal blade slot to put on the wall just because I don't have one.
@chrism37842 ай бұрын
and it stays there forever till the house is demolished?
@queenofcookie32992 ай бұрын
@@chrism3784yes those where built in the sixties they weren’t exactly known for future proving things back then
@chrism37842 ай бұрын
@@queenofcookie3299 probably going to be the same for the future generations who's going to have to clean the world of plastic waste. Sure they will have stuff to say about us.
@alexrogers7772 ай бұрын
@@chrism3784 I mean kinda but not really? Nobody today has a purpose built hole in their wall just to shove plastic into for the next person to deal with.
@clopity11402 ай бұрын
Interesting how all the tablets in the US seem to come in bottles. In Australia most tablets come in plastic and foil packets where each pill is individually sealed.
@General12th2 ай бұрын
Hi Hank! My next band name will be Aspirin AKA Asprin.
@AndyGneiss2 ай бұрын
"Next" band? How many bands have you gone through already? :-P
@General12th2 ай бұрын
@@AndyGneiss A few: Me and the Male Boys Avalanche of Assetry Flirting With Cornbread Kelvin and the Absolute Zeroes and my personal favorite so far, The Gum Cuzzlers
@CinnamonPinch2 ай бұрын
My child was prescribed ranitidine for the first year of his life due to severe acid reflux. I was horrified when it was pulled several years later, wondering what I had done to my baby. This video gives me some comfort now that I understand the reason behind it. Thank you for explaining it Hank!
@thesingerintheshower2 ай бұрын
I never keep medicine in the bathroom. I keep everything but medicine in the medicine cabinet. Lol. We use it for our toothbrushes, toothpaste, and mouthwash.
@thecodemachine2 ай бұрын
I brush my teeth in the kitchen, I got tired of unclogging the bathroom sink with tooth paste junk. The kitchen is also cleaner and doesn't get poop particles on my toothbrush when I flush.
@LKMNOP2 ай бұрын
@@thecodemachineIf you keep your toothbrush in the medicine cabinet then you don't get any flume on it. And the idea of spitting in a kitchen sink where I keep my dishes grosses me out.
@longiusaescius25372 ай бұрын
@LKMNOP why?
@MonkeyJedi992 ай бұрын
@@LKMNOP I can accept that spitting in the kitchen sink grosses you out. It doesn't do the same for many people, but there is no reason to be attacked over it, or feel shame about it. What grosses me out is the bathroom cup that multiple people in the house use to rinse after brushing, leaving it to catch all kinds of fecal bacteria and other growth between uses.
@s0nicfreak2 ай бұрын
@@LKMNOP "where I keep my dishes" But surely you only keep the DIRTY dishes there, which aren't any grosser than your spit?
@TheKrispyfort2 ай бұрын
Aussie here 🇦🇺 We call them "bathroom cabinets" not medicine cabinets. People store their medications all over the place. Usually in some form of drawer or the good old shortbread tin.
@nebulan2 ай бұрын
"Zantac, please don't sue us. Again."
@ShadoeLandman2 ай бұрын
I need those cabinets for things like bandages, cotton swabs, toothpaste, etc., but stuff like this gives builders an excuse to no longer give us a place to put them, or make us almost crawl on the floor to get under the sink. Please stop discouraging them and rename them instead.
@n0etic_f0x2 ай бұрын
This is why as an autistic person I literally took to putting it in jars and a case intended for weed. It controls humidity and is fully light-blocking.
@samiraperi4672 ай бұрын
Add a bag of silica just to be on the safe side.
@n0etic_f0x2 ай бұрын
@@samiraperi467 Yeah they are designed to regulate humidity with some like in. I can keep it ultra low humidity and it even lets me know what humidity it is. Still a good idea.
@helenr32422 ай бұрын
That’s a great idea
@0Rookie02 ай бұрын
And also make sure it's food safe too! You never know! Ymmv @@samiraperi467
@MmntoMorrisson2 ай бұрын
im so sorry if i missed a joke or something, but.. what does autism have to do with that?😭😭
@MihaiKrieger2 ай бұрын
In eastern Europe, we keep them in a Shoebox in the dining room, or in a drawer in the bedroom. Never heard of anyone keeping anything else but cream tubes in the bathroom
@Toxo2 ай бұрын
For a moment there I thought ranitidine was breaking down into MDMA
@drj-pp8hw2 ай бұрын
Me in my ranitidine vault after reading your comment: GOD DAMN IT
@MmntoMorrisson2 ай бұрын
THAT'S WHAT I HEARD TOO i was like, ok hank, i see you👀
@JPaterson89422 ай бұрын
We have a dedicated shelf in the hall/towel closet. Glad to know we accidentally picked a good spot.
@harttdm2 ай бұрын
Some of my meds include a silica gel capsule in the bottle. I think I’ll drop it in my advil bottle when I’m done.
@Nakia117982 ай бұрын
Most advice bottles have one already in them.
@light-master2 ай бұрын
We keep ours on a Lazy Susan in a cabinet in the kitchen. And its on the opposite side from the stove and oven and sink
@Moingboy2 ай бұрын
Thank you for putting clear actionable items at the end of this video! It is super helpful to have these science education videos tell us what we can do to incorporate the knowledge into our lives when the information does impact the lives of everyday people.
@avagrego31952 ай бұрын
excellent points, thanks a million. I keep only toiletries in the medicine cabinet. I often have young children around so I always keep medicine in a safe out of reach out of sight place. I will also be more conscious of expiration dates.
@Moonlitwatersofaqua2 ай бұрын
My house had no air conditioning before 2 years ago and I live in a swamp. I'm toast lol.
@nedludd76222 ай бұрын
I am 75 and in multiple residences I have never had air condtioning. Those include deserty areas. I have never had an air conditioned vehicle either.
@100GTAGUY2 ай бұрын
@@nedludd7622 i can live without AC in the desert, just open the windows at night when it gets cool and close em early in the morning before it warms up. Idk how my dad lived in the everglades in the 70s with no AC and them slatted windows.
@angusmatheson89062 ай бұрын
Get your Cajun ass out the swamp bro. Move to a temperate clime.
@angusmatheson89062 ай бұрын
@@100GTAGUYDeserts are easy, swamps SUCK. Dry heat is fine, it's the jungle/swamp heat that suuuuuucks.
@gordonlawrence14482 ай бұрын
Here in the UK those cabinets are used for storing spare toiletries like shampoo and things like spare tooth brushes etc. Also some doctors advise to keep some medications in the fridge.
@Sugar3Glider2 ай бұрын
1:45 Where they should come from, not necessarily where they do come from.
@EmilyJelassi2 ай бұрын
My medications are in my dresser drawer in an air-conditioned room. I did know to not store medications in the bathroom, by the stove/oven, or on a windowsill, but it's nice to know why. 😊
@stilles3422 ай бұрын
I got a drawer in a sideboard dedicated for everything medical related. The bathroom cabinet only contains bathroom stuff. And when I shower...I shower hot, like steaming hot. I know that's not good for anything that can decay.
@CheeseTaterson2 ай бұрын
We have a Sterilite drawer thing on an upper shelf in the hall closet, each drawer is a different household member's meds, and it's high enough that the kids or cats can't reach... the door also has a lock on it (mostly because the cleaning chemicals are also kept in there).
@youcantata2 ай бұрын
Small bed room fridge is the best for storing various medicines. It is mostly dark, cool and out of hand of children and noticeable for daily access when needed.
@TheFeldhamster2 ай бұрын
But then you have fridge noise in your bedroom! It's bad enough in hotels, but to have that permanently in my home bedroom... hell NO!
@PanthereaLeonis2 ай бұрын
Wouldn't that keep many medications too cool? Hank just said that Tylenol doesn't like being under 20C, and fridges usually go to 4C!
@reepicheepsfriend2 ай бұрын
Aren't fridges kind of humid tho?
@AnneOnymaus2 ай бұрын
No: counterintuitively, the air in a fridge is quite dry. This is why thrice-fried chips (French fries) are often refrigerated between fryings, because drying them out gives a crunchier result.
@gabrielhermes16272 ай бұрын
Here in Brazil we also have medicine cabinets but I don't know anyone that actually stores medicine in them. It's mostly stuff like toothbrushes, soap, different creams, etc. Stuff that you use for hygiene and stuff.
@Bob-nc5hz2 ай бұрын
7:50 isn't that standard in the US? Around here it's *strongly recommended* to bring *all* meds (either expired, or leftovers from treatments) to the pharmacy, not all meds are good for the sewer system or the environment and pharmacists have the knowledge and network to dispose of it safely (if it's safe they'll throw it in the trash, otherwise it's moved back up the chain to be disposed of safely).
@tylerpeterson47262 ай бұрын
Pharmacies aren't required to offer drug disposal, so some don't. But many do.
@HweolRidda2 ай бұрын
I am curious what meds ARE good for the sewer system or the environment.
@matejlieskovsky96252 ай бұрын
@@tylerpeterson4726 Pretty sure they have that requirement here in the EU.
@crash.override2 ай бұрын
The US system seems to be relatively new. Or at least wasn't well-known. I'd heard about DEA-endorsed municipal drug take-back events for a couple years, before seeing my first drug return bin at a Walgreens.
@MonkeyJedi992 ай бұрын
@@crash.override Yeah, those DEA drug take-backs are set up to get things like cocaine, meth and crack. I laugh at the DEA when I see people bringing their expired prescription meds. I imagine them watching the camera they swore was not watching the drop-off and complaining that this program was not getting them enough subjects for later no-knock arrests.
@ZeldagigafanMatthew2 ай бұрын
Some pharmacies may even have drop boxes for you to dump expired or otherwise unneeded medication in.
@asecret59612 ай бұрын
My family doesn't. It's in a cupboard in the kitchen. When I go to campus accommodations I keep it in a med pouch in my cupboard section of the kitchen
@charlesgill18542 ай бұрын
I was hoping for an essay on the architectural or aesthetic issues with medicine cabinets, but thanks for also telling me what I do already is totally fine.
@LordHonkInc2 ай бұрын
"Consume Prilosec!"
@merlapittman50342 ай бұрын
I haven't kept any medicines in my bathroom medicine cabinet for decades because I heard about it not being a good place for them. I use that space for things like hairbrushes and combs, nail clippers, and so on
@alicegaiba2 ай бұрын
I don't know if they're not a thing here in Italy or I'm just out of touch, but I've only ever seen bathroom medicine cabinets in American movies and TV shows. Never had one, never heard of anyone having one
@cancan-wq9un2 ай бұрын
Here in Turkey, medicine usually go to fridge
@Raua122 ай бұрын
Same here in Sweden, I've never heard of anyone keeping meds in the bathroom. They're usually placed where people keep their cleaning supplies or the kitchen haha
@zarasamuels93772 ай бұрын
Uk, same here, we store ours in a kitchen cabinet
@arti5musicc2 ай бұрын
They’re a thing here
@alicegaiba2 ай бұрын
@@arti5musicc here where? 😅
@Pit1993x2 ай бұрын
We call it a pharmacy cabinet and ours is at the top of the stairs when coming up from the garage. It's about 17°C there all year round and the humidity is somewhat controlled by 3 ventilators spaced throughout the walls of the garage.
@Geeksmithing2 ай бұрын
We have zero medicine cabinets in our home.
@joshuahudson21702 ай бұрын
When I had one it contained tooth brushes, tooth paste, shaving cream, and similar things. No medications.
@Cleo-h3x2 ай бұрын
That cabinet in the bathroom is for tooth brushes, hairbrushes etc. Meds, firstaid, etc are in a cabinet in the kitchen. :).
@AcrophobicPixie2 ай бұрын
That's why I keep them in the half bath (sink & toilet only) medicine cabinet, not the full bath medicine cabinets (it has 2 for some odd reason), but that's where toothpaste, cleanser stuff, and other things are kept. I used to work in a pharmacy.
@TheFeldhamster2 ай бұрын
We don't call that thing in the bathroom a "medicine cabinet" in my country. It's a "mirror cabinet" or, if you're GenX or older, an "Alibert" (brand name of the company that used to make these types of cabinets popular in the 70s). Before that, there used to be just a mirror on the wall and a little shelf underneath. People keep combs and mouthwash and shaving cream and Q-tips and make-up remover and hair products there and pincers to pluck their eyebrows. Nobody I know keeps medicines there. I keep my vitamins and medicines and other medical stuff, like band aids, in a drawer in the bedroom.
@kaasmeester59032 ай бұрын
"combs and mouthwash and shaving cream and Q-tips and make-up remover and hair products" Back then, that was our medicine.
@lnplum2 ай бұрын
Assuming you're German, yes, we do have the term "Medizinschrank" but mirror cabinets are more common.
@VAL9THOU2 ай бұрын
There are no medications in my medicine cabinet. It's all just various toiletries i use at the sink
@macoson2 ай бұрын
Aspirin is a Bayer trade name, the substance is named acetylsalicylic acid
@TJStellmach2 ай бұрын
"Aspirin" was originally a Bayer trade name, but it has become widely genericized, so in many places it is available under that name regardless of manufacturer.
@HweolRidda2 ай бұрын
@@TJStellmachI haven't called ASA "asprin" for decades. Is that an American thing?
@beaandersson66962 ай бұрын
Maybe, but it’s also a thing in New Zealand 🤷
@teebob212 ай бұрын
@@TJStellmach Bayer lost its trademark for Aspirin in the United States and some other countries in actions taken between 1918 and 1921 because it had failed to use the name for its own product correctly and had for years allowed the use of "Aspirin" by other manufacturers without defending the intellectual property rights.
@Riley_Mundt2 ай бұрын
Bayer hasn't had the trademark on Aspirin in ages. The Bayer trademark is "Bayer Back & Body."
@SandyRiverBlue2 ай бұрын
You can also call the 800 number on the packaging and ask for "excursion information". They will tell you how far outside the temp storage range a product can be kept and for how long. Make sure to have the barcode number handy or the NDC (National Drug Code) number from the front of the product and not just the name otherwise they can't help you.
@paige89162 ай бұрын
Insulin is a weird one. As I understood our doc's explanation (in pen form) they need to be stored in a fridge unless in use, then has to be "room temperature" but thats what starts the expiration count down to 28 days... after brought out cant go back in and should never be in a place it can get warm or it can't be used at all... the whole thing confuses me
@PaulTheFox19882 ай бұрын
I would absolutely recommend you speak to a doctor or pharmacist to make sure insulin is used and stored correctly, but from what I understand refrigerated insulin is fine to use straight away, but will take longer to start working and will be uncomfortable or even painful to inject depending on how cold it is. Do NOT use insulin if it has developed ice on the exterior, as it has gone below safe storage temperatures and is likely to be unsafe to use. It is highly recommended you check the temperature of your fridge with a thermometer to ensure it is above the minimum storage temperature for insulin, and preferably if possible have a separate fridge purely for insulin storage, and keep the insulin away from the fridge walls or sides. I've found that the best place for me is the shelves in the door as that is furthest away from the cooling elements and stops it from freezing. High temperatures causes it to degrade, and the higher the temperature, the faster the degradation, generally you want to keep it around 25c or below when in active use. It can be put back in the fridge once brought to room temperature. However, and I must strongly emphasise this, from what I have been told it does NOT extend the shelf life beyond the 28/30 day limit and should still be disposed of within the 28/30 days after first being brought to room temperature. I believe it's recommended to return insulin to the fridge after use if you live in very hot climates and there's limited or no access to AC, and even if you don't you should still do this on days where the room temperature rises above 25c. If your doctor or pharmacist has given you differing instructions to this, then follow their instructions and advice and do not follow mine, while I am type 1 diabetic and have been since I was 14, I am still not an expert and you should still listen to medical professionals and ask for clarification if you're still unsure.
@paige89162 ай бұрын
@PaulTheFox1988 I really appreciate your comment. I'm still learning as my youngest was very recently was diagnosed with type 1...I bug the team of doctors all the time with questions yet the temp thing confuses me with the hot summer but I know for sure the expiration date can't be extended.
@PaulTheFox19882 ай бұрын
@@paige8916 I really sympathise with you and your youngest, it's a lot to take in and it is confusing, contradictory, and can change due to the evolving nature of the treatments available, but you're entering into this world at one of the best times even if it doesn't feel like it, the tools available will make managing it easier than it's ever been, I just hope the country you live in has them readily available and cheap to access. One thing I suggest you do is try to get mental health support for both you and your youngest, especially for them. I didn't until much more recently and leaving it so long it caused me irreparable harm and I don't want that to happen to anyone else. You're going to deal with a lot of ignorance and stigma and it is very difficult to deal with, and sadly there exists people who will try to manipulate you with promises of cures or dangerous ideas such as that insulin is not required, but no matter how much you or your youngest wish for it you should never listen to anyone trying to tell you these things. I know you probably won't listen to anyone but a doctor, but I should still mention that conmen or stupid people exist and they will only cause devastating harm. One more thing, don't buy any food item that claims to be specifically for diabetics without first speaking to a qualified dietician or diabetes specialist, these foods often replace sugar with alternatives that causes diarrhoea in large doses and this can cause serious issues. I wish you both all the best, it's not a nice condition, it will never be easy, but you're not alone and the people you're already seeking advice from genuinely do care and are a wealth of knowledge you should never disregard. ❤️
@jamiemccullough19702 ай бұрын
Glad the only thing I used to store was spare items -- razor refills, toothpaste, toothbrushes, a box or two of little adhesive bandages, maybe the entirety of a small first aid kit. I kinda thought it was common sense just because all the bottles recommend a "cool, dry place", similar to my perfumes, which were quickly spirited out of the bathroom when I was old enough to know better.
@James22102 ай бұрын
I have my medicine in a "lockbox" on the kitchen table. Quotes because you can get it open with a butter knife
@ZoDoneRightNow2 ай бұрын
I’ve only ever heard it called a medicine cabinet in American tv shows and movies. Storing the medicine in the bathroom makes no sense to me. Ive only ever heard the bathroom cabinet called a bathroom cabinet or toiletries cabinet in Australia. We had a “medicine cabinet” in my childhood home but it was in the kitchen. I currently store my medicine in the bedside table
@КГБКолДжорджКостанца2 ай бұрын
I have a medicine cabinet for something..... My shaver (:
@thebonedawg28082 ай бұрын
It's what I keep in mine
@profilore2 ай бұрын
No such bathroom medicine cabinets in my country. We keep them in a bookcase or in the fridge.
@kirillsukhomlin30362 ай бұрын
Why people do that on the first place? We have it in wardrobe/cabinet, on special shelf. Those someone in the family need to take daily, is kept on the kitchen in cabinet.
@tengonadacluewhatsgutsprec14192 ай бұрын
Originally intended to be a hidden cabinet for hiding booze AKA medicine during the prohibition
@endelosecosplay13022 ай бұрын
We built a cabinet for our meds with help from a friend and put it in the kitchen away from the stove and sink. Works great.
@nebulan2 ай бұрын
FDA knows what they're doing. Supreme Court: No, we know better.
@SeanBZA2 ай бұрын
Look up the history of the FDA, and you are in for some suprises.
@nebulan2 ай бұрын
@@SeanBZA oh i know they were into some crap. We should be regulating our regulating agencies. Audits. Whistleblower protections. Etc
@Matt-xc6sp2 ай бұрын
It’s too bad we only have the executive branch to execute the laws that already exist and the judicial branch to interpret them. If only there was a special 3rd branch that was responsible for actually writing new laws. Then we wouldn’t have executive agencies trying to put square pegs in 80 year old round holes and the court saying “no”.
@KC9UDX2 ай бұрын
We should get rid of all the regulating agencies and let people regulate their own lives.
@SeanBZA2 ай бұрын
@@KC9UDX Remove corporate personhood first, then you can do that.
@matthewkendrick82802 ай бұрын
Oh so that’s why my mother who is a nurse keeps the medicine in the pantry
@LynHannan2 ай бұрын
About 50 odd years ago, I was a preschooler who had a cough being managed at home. I knew the cough syrup (yeah I know as an adult they don't do much) was stored in the cabinet in the bathroom. Mum was busy hanging clothes on the line, so I thought I'd not bother her by attending to it myself. I climbed up onto the edge of the bath, leaned on the basin and opened the cabinet door. I could just reach the top shelf that held the medicines. I climbed back down and I poured the dose into the little cup. My memory stops there. Years later, Mum made a comment when I moved out of home to not go drinking the furniture polish. She then explained that she noticed my breath smelt very strongly of something it shouldn't have, yet I was not upset at the time. She investigated the bathroom and found the opened bottle of "Marveer Furniture Polish", the medicine cup with still a half dose in it, and a vomited mess in the bath. She asked me about it and I owned up to it, she explained that it wasn't medicine and I agreed with her (the bottles had looked VERY similar) because it did not taste like it should have. She took me to the local hospital (we didn't have a house phone, early 70's) where they checked me over. They explained to Mum to keep cleaners in the laundry in a high place from kids, and to separate the medicines by storing them in the kitchen (because she spent a fair amount of time there daily) also in a high place away from heat. Over the next couple of days, Dad built Mum a lockable box to store cleaners in, the key being stored out of sight on the top of the cupboards. He also built a medicine box with a lock for the kitchen (but I don't know where that was stored). SO DON'T STORE STUFF WHERE IT DOESN'T BELONG AND KEEP IT OUT OF SIGHT AND REACH OF ALL KIDS!!!!
@keeblebrox2 ай бұрын
Y'all are really great science communicators, we're lucky to have you.
@genatzvali2 ай бұрын
I have a medicine shelf in my fridge.
@General12th2 ай бұрын
I have a fridge shelf in my medicine cabinet!
@HweolRidda2 ай бұрын
Double check your meds' lower storage temperatures too. Cool is better than hot, but too cold can be a problem.
@Carewolf2 ай бұрын
Humidity can still be a problem unless you have a fridge with de-humidification.
@Jess-bu4is2 ай бұрын
Thanks to years of watching channels such as this one I've already considered bathroom medicine cabinets a dubious storage place and opted for a cool, dark cabinet in the kitchen
@MeepMeep882 ай бұрын
I've never heard anyone call it a medicine cabinet.. Just a cabinet.. Everyone I know stores their pills in the bedroom or the kitchen.
@tengonadacluewhatsgutsprec14192 ай бұрын
Mostly the older generation influenced by prohibition referred to it as a medicine cabinet cause they were developed as a place for hiding booze Eta: in case it isn't obvious the medicine part refers to medicinal properties of liquor, paired with liquor cabinets being made illegal we got medicine cabinets
@MeepMeep882 ай бұрын
@@tengonadacluewhatsgutsprec1419 Ah I see, interesting tid bits
@iainballas2 ай бұрын
My family has so many medical issues the pharmacy sometimes checks our bathroom cabinet when they run out of something.
@brun47752 ай бұрын
I’d never call that thing a medicine cabinet. It’s a bathroom cabinet for storing bathroom things that aren’t out being used at the moment. Medicine is kept in the kitchen. On a shelf in a cupboard high up where it’s not accessible to kids. I’ve never had drugs that need to be refrigerated.
@fuzziestlumpkin2 ай бұрын
Here in the UK we call it a "bathroom cabinet". Not the most imaginative I'll grant you, but it works. I'm sure there are people who do store medication in there, but it's not the norm.
@codemonkeyslikeme2 ай бұрын
4:46 got eggcited for sec 🫠
@raymondyeow24782 ай бұрын
In my country, we never call the cabinet in the bathroom "medicine cabinet" but "mirror cabinet" or just bathroom cabinet. In fact, I don't personally know of anyone who actually stores meds in the bathroom
@croozerdog2 ай бұрын
i have a medicine drawer that's dangerous for other reasons, I once accidentally took a cat antibiotic tablet instead of adhd meds because the pills went through the same type of press : )
@AJTurnsLeft2 ай бұрын
Knew this was going to cover Ranitidine. I was keeping mine in a box next to a radiator and only found out about it being taken off the market in 2022, oops.
@MeldaRavaniel2 ай бұрын
Next thing for you to cover: evaporation of things like isopropyl alcohol forming peroxide crystals. My dad had a really old bottle of isopropyl alcohol in his medicine cabinet and noticed some crystals in the bottom. He didn't want to dump it down the sink because of his leech field or whatever that's called, so he dumped it out on some rocks next to the house and thought nothing of it. Something like a month later, he was walking from A to B, through the rocks, and heard a loud bang. He thought he'd been shot at, and couldn't see out of one of his eyes. The crystals on the rocks had exploded when he stepped on them, launching rock shrapnel up at him. One bit cracked the glass on his phone in his front pocket, another caught him in one of his knees, it messed up the shoe that stepped on them and, lastly, a piece hit him right above his eye, detaching his lense and causing some trauma to the retina, but luckily not damaging the eye itself. The doctors and nurses didn't believe him, pulled him aside without my mom to run him through the DV questions to make sure. The doctor he had told came back in a bit later and said, "i looked it up. And now i believe you. 😮" We're not sure the exact kind of peroxide crystals would have formed, and there wasn't really a way to investigate them to find out, but we're pretty sure that's what it was. This is why you have to wear goggles in science labs, even if you're not really working with "dangerous" substances. Science is wild.
@NotAFanOfHandles2 ай бұрын
My medicine cabinet holds toothpaste, mouthwash, floss, a bottle of unused sunscreen, deodorant, face wash... oh, and a tiny jar of Vicks, which has been used maybe twice in the past five years. We generally keep our medicines in a cabinet in the kitchen as far from the stove and sink as it can get. I also keep some OTC meds (loratadine, diphenhydramine, acetaminophen, etc.) in my bedside table.
@gyvren2 ай бұрын
5:35 I prefer MDMA… 😉
@michaelcovelli94612 ай бұрын
You get 10% funnier every year! I’m here for it
@lakrids-pibe2 ай бұрын
The medicine cabinet in the bathroom is out of the reach of small children. And when the children are older, it is easy to explain to them that the contents of that cabinet is a no-no when an adult is not with them. You should also keep cleaning products out of the way in a high place. Especially those cleaning products that looks like soda bottles. Why are they even legal?
@demonzabrak2 ай бұрын
The phrase "the exception that proves the rule" uses the word "prove" like "proving ground." It means to challenge, to submit to verification. It does not mean verified. The phrase is LITERALLY about how exceptions can and should overturn things people mistake to be rules.