Category: Miscellaneous

06 Jan 2023 11:53

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Care while disposing the medicines after expiry date is over

Many people dispose the medicines especially tablets which found unused as the expiry date found over or used by the person who died in the house etc.,
I am seeing many unused tablets with strips or in loose on the roadside. This would be dangerous if any children swallows by taking presuming some peppermints as the tablets came in different colors like gems.
I used to dispose the tablets irrespective of colors by dissolving in water and throw out in gutter, similarly the capsules by removing the outer portion and dissolving in water. I pour out the contents of unused medicines and crossing expiry date from the bottle into gutter.

#768442

06 Jan 2023 12:07

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A good advisory by the author. We should dispose of the medicines in the correct way so that it is not used by someone accidentally.
The easiest way of disposing of expired and old medicines is to wash them away in the drain. Never give them to a friend or relative or poor person as they would consume the same in good faith not knowing that those are expired ones.
We should avoid mixing expired medicines in the garbage as that is consumed by some animals and would harm them.

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#768446

06 Jan 2023 13:48

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Regarding the unused medicines, we must take care that it is not dumped here there so as to avoid any untoward accident. Especially the kids or children of our families must be educated not to pick up any materials lying on the roads or in its vicinity. Considering the concentration of our population density, teaching the public regarding the safe disposal of the unused medicines can be taught with the different medias to make them more conscious. At least by doing so, we could see some positive impacts.

#768462

06 Jan 2023 19:24

Joined:	02/06/2009
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This is a piece of good advice from the author. We all should be careful in disposing of these medicines which are expired. Generally, we will have some collection of medicines in our houses. We should see these medicines once in a while and check the expiry date and the medicines whose expiry date is over should be aggregated and disposed of. There are people who throw them along with other waste. But if we can put them in water and feed that water to plants and trees, it will be good for those plants. This suggestion has been given to me by a doctor and in our house, we generally follow the same. But we should not throw them loose in public places. There is a chance some children may sallow them which is very dangerous. Another way of disposing them of is to put them in water and throw that water into the gutter. An important point is that we should not keep them in a place where kids can have an approach to those tablets.

drrao
always confident

#768465

06 Jan 2023 22:07

Joined:	19/06/2011
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The author has mentioned a valid point.
Medicines are mostly active chemicals. As they say one man's medicine is another's poison. Hence unused and expired medicines and ( for that matter any chemical materials) have to be disposed with acre and caution that it is not used externally or internally by especially children and pets. When waste disposal comes caution and care should be given in disposing even waste food also, not to say about solid waste.

Care while disposing the medicines after expiry date is over

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