Be careful before taking the medication. Drug could harm your body if the conditions are not potable. If so, the medication should be discarded or destroyed in order not to be abused by those who find it. What are the characteristics of the drug should be discarded? Here's the information.
1. Expiration
All drugs on the market have an expiration date or period of drug use and safe to consume. Usually the expiration time or ED EXP written on the drug packaging. It is important for you before taking the medication used to check the expiration date.
If the drug has exceeded the expiration date, immediately remove and destroy the drug because it is not safe and is toxic when taken.
2. Too Old Saved
Drugs that you save with the condition has long opened, the better thrown away. Drugs seal and open the wrapper has been stored too long and the quality will decline and less nutritious.
3. Changed Color and Texture
If color change and texture drug is also not the same as when you bought it, for example syrup becomes cloudy or discolored raised lumps, while the cream or ointment hardened texture, throw it into the trash.
4. Odour Nuisance
If you find that the drug or drug smells like a strange smell, has been ascertained that the drug is not safe to drink. Destroy and discard.
5. Fake Drugs
Although counterfeit drugs are not expired or show signs of physical changes, you have to throw it away because it's still unclear fake drug efficacy, could even be harmful to the body when taken.
When you find the characteristics of the drug as above, then discard the drug. The best way to dispose of the drug is destroyed first and then discarded. For medicinal syrup, syrup waste into the drain and discard the bottle. It is intended that the drug can not be consumed again.
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