yep and also keep the cleaning products and beauty products out of reach. you don’t want your child eating nail polish or drinking perfume

I check the dates of medication once a month and if they are out of date, I take them to the local chemist to dispose of. It’s a good habit that I’ve gotten myself into.

We are a bit complacent, so thank you for this timely reminder.

This acts as a good reminder, thanks!

I just cleaned mine out on the weekend. We have a 16 year old though so feel he understands. When he was younger, our medicines were always in a basket way up high and medication was only administered by us.

That’s scary that the child was able to climb up to it- we have one up high also, hopefully considering that even I have to get a stool, it’s high enough!

An important reminder to keep your children safe!

I have my medicines up so high even I need to stand on something to reach them.

Even if your medicines are in a high cupboard it should still be locked. I know the Aunty of a preschool age child who pushed chairs and a table to a cupboard above the fridge, put one of the chairs on the table and managed to reach orange flavoured medicine a few years ago. We check our smoke alarms twice a year – at the beginning and end of daylight saving. I clean my medicine cupboard out every few months. I always check the date of any I use during that time. there is also now use or best before dates on a few other medical items too, not just medications.

Our medicine supplies are locked away and we keep it in good and current order.

With small kids, the medicines need to be kept away. You never know when and what can happen.
I go regularly through my medicine cabinet, at least every 3 months.

Important indeed !

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  • • Ellen replied
    • 18 Jul 2017 , 3:40 am

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  I prefer to have no medication at home at all, but sometimes you have to….
  Other then some Panadol for the kids my husband is the only one using prescription medication for high blood pressure which he keeps in our bedroom out of reach and hidden for the kids.

My medicine cabinet is free of everything that we don’t have to take every day.

It can happen so very quickly

It is so easy to happen. And child proof lids do not keep kids out if they do manage to get hold of them.

Ours are up high out of reach but I should go through and discard old out of date medicine.

I check annually – when we check our smoke alarm batteries.

Our medicines are on the top shelf and would be very difficult for a child to get to.

Our medicine supplies are kept on the top shelf of the pantry where even I need a stool to reach them, so no chance of little fingers accidentally getting a hold of them! I methodically go through them every month to discard anything past the used by date or no longer required.

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 10 Jul 2017 , 5:36 am

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  We have a system for keeping the cabinet up to date too – easier to keep on top of with a system in place.