| Home-Wizard |
Sponsored by: |
|
Boston Digital LLC Making it easier for you to manage your home |
|||
| http://www.boston-digital.com |
||||||
| Interactive Home Maintenance Guide | ||||||
 |
||||||
| Home-Wizard |
Sponsored by: |
|
Boston Digital LLC Making it easier for you to manage your home |
|||
| http://www.boston-digital.com |
||||||
| Interactive Home Maintenance Guide | ||||||
|
||||||
|
Medicines (expired) |
|
To maintain the safety of your medicines, it is important that
your home maintenance program
include the proper maintenance for your medicines.
Medicine bottles (both prescription and non-prescription) have expiration dates written on them. Medicines that are past their expiration dates can become chemically unstable and potentially dangerous to take. Shown below are the recommended routine maintenance tasks for your medicines. Learn to enjoy managing your home with our free Newsletter or our free Automatic Maintenance Reminders. We can also show you the Recommended Maintenance Schedules for your entire home. |
|
|
|
|
 |
||||
|
|
Maintenance Task: Throw out expired medicines |
|||
| How do you throw out expired medicines? | ||||
|
|
Medicines bottles should be inspected, and medicines that are past their expiration dates should be thrown out. Be sure to also check any medicines in your "emergency supplies kit". NOTE: Be sure all medicines are out of reach of children or contained in a cabinet equipped with childproof locks. |
|||
| Why is it important to throw out expired medicines? | ||||
|
|
Safety. Medicines that are past their expiration dates can become chemically unstable and potentially dangerous to take. |
|||
| How often should you throw out expired medicines? | ||||
| Medicine bottles should be checked at least once per year (January). | ||||
|
|
|||
| How does Home-Wizard rate the costs and benefits for this task? | ||||
| The cost of this task is very low. It is estimated that this task should only take about 30 minutes to complete, and the task is relatively easy to do. No specialized tools are required. |  |
|||
| The benefits of this task are moderately high. Doing this task can help prevent poisoning from out-of-date medicines which have become chemically unstable. |  |
|||
| Overall Home-Wizard benefit-versus-cost rating (one 'hat' = low and four 'hats' = high): | ||||
|
|
|||
 |
||||
|
Would you like to receive our free Newsletter or our free Automatic Maintenance Reminders? |
|
Terms of Use Copyright © 2000-6 Boston Digital LLC. All rights reserved. |
