Friday, April 3, 2015

Keeping Your Meds In The Bathroom Is A Horrible Idea

Do not use your medicine cabinet for medicine. Seriously.


You store all your prescriptions/ibuprofen/cold 'n' flu meds in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom, right?


You store all your prescriptions/ibuprofen/cold 'n' flu meds in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom, right?


Like a lot of other humans on planet Earth.


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Because DUH, isn't that what a bathroom medicine cabinet should be for?


Because DUH, isn't that what a bathroom medicine cabinet should be for?


Why else would it be in the bathroom?


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But actually...your bathroom medicine cabinet is exactly where you SHOULDN'T keep your meds.


But actually...your bathroom medicine cabinet is exactly where you SHOULDN'T keep your meds.


"Restrooms are probably the worst place besides right in the kitchen to have [medications]," Heather Free, Pharm.D., a local practicing pharmacist in Washington D.C., and a spokesperson for American Pharmacists Association, tells BuzzFeed. "We have a lot of humidity and moisture in there and sometimes that moisture can really interfere with the stability of the medication."


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It's true: Moisture, heat, and possibly even mold from all that ~hot water~ in your bathroom is super bad for your meds.


It's true: Moisture, heat, and possibly even mold from all that ~hot water~ in your bathroom is super bad for your meds.


"[Moisture] can make medication less effective — if you’ve ever seen a tablet get wet, it makes it disintegrate a little bit — so that’s what the moisture is doing to it,"

Free says.


"Sometimes, too, the restroom is a great place for mold," she adds. "You really don’t want mold growing on the medicines that you’re taking."


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