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Where do you keep your first aid and medicines?

27 replies

BruceAndNosh · 10/03/2019 15:58

Stuff like paracetamol, cough medicine, Strepsils. Bandages and band-aid.
Things you have in the house "just in case" (until they expire)
Currently ours lives in cupboard under bathroom basin but refurb means slightly less cabinet space.

I've always kept a pack of band-aid in kitchen as that's where you are most likely to cut yourself!
But I'm thinking of putting everything in utility room cupboard.
Is this a bad idea?

OP posts:
TheQueef · 10/03/2019 16:00

I've got a tin with a cross on it. On the kitchen shelf that I can't even reach.

iklboo · 10/03/2019 16:01

Our medicine cupboard is in the kitchen. Fairly well stocked first aid kit and the usual painkillers, lemsips, night nurse etc.

ShabbyAbby · 10/03/2019 16:02

Highest shelf in kitchen cupboard (I have to stand on tip toes) in a metal box marked first aid.

Floralnomad · 10/03/2019 16:03

Pills for general use have a small shelf in the kitchen . Plasters / bandages / dressings / BP machine live in a box in a kitchen cupboard . My everyday pills have a different shelf in the kitchen .

beenhereages1 · 10/03/2019 16:06

First aid kit- on side in downstairs toilet

Medicines - kitchen cupboard. Apart from the daily ones - they just sit on the side

DramaAlpaca · 10/03/2019 16:08

In a high kitchen cupboard.

ShabbyAbby · 10/03/2019 16:19

My first aid box has medicines and epipens in it and scissors, tweezers etc. Which is why it's high up

killpop · 10/03/2019 16:22

I have a large bread storage tub that lives on top of a kitchen wall cabinet that stores the 'what if' medicine and first aid stuff. The day to day stuff has it's own kitchen cabinet. I also have a first aid kit in the car and a small pouch of painkillers in my handbag.

bigbluebus · 10/03/2019 17:12

Bathroom cabinet. The magnets are so strong on the doors that no child would be able to get in to it!

FloofyDoof · 10/03/2019 17:17

In a drawer in the bathroom, along with a first aid kit in a tin. Kids are young adults though. It was in a high kitchen cupboard when they were small.

Seeline · 10/03/2019 17:23

Ours are in a cupboard in the utility room. Works well for us. We have a sink out there so can wash hands, wounds etc. It also isn't as hot as the kitchen, so better for medicines.

ivykaty44 · 10/03/2019 17:26

Top shelf in the pantry

Original poster
BruceAndNosh · 10/03/2019 17:31

Very interesting, it seems I'm in a minority keeping mine in bathroom, so utility it is in future.
Must make sure to tell DH where everything has gone!

OP posts:
Whatififall · 10/03/2019 17:32

Kitchen cupboard

DelurkingAJ · 10/03/2019 18:35

Bathrooms (well out of reach of DC...it’s a stretch for me and I’m 5’10”). I also have a stash of paracetamol, plasters and antiseptic cream etc in my handbag and another at work (also cold tablets there...the most used element although when a colleague was stung by a wasp on the way to work recently I came up trumps with antibite cream (before sending him off to find our first wider!)).

FrangipaniBlue · 10/03/2019 18:49

High narrow kitchen cupboard - one shelf has all the medicines/first aid kit and the other has all the vitamins on

ideasofmarch · 10/03/2019 19:01

Top shelf in the kitchen cupboard for most first aid things and painkillers. Stuff like bottles of TCP and overflow from the kitchen cupboard is in a cabinet in the bathroom, with the spare razor blades, cotton wool and whatnot. DH has to take quite a bit of medication daily so that is in the kitchen cupboard as well.

Magmatic80 · 10/03/2019 19:05

Bathroom cabinet, but that’s because that’s where there was empty space. I think probably it doesnt matter as long as everyone knows where it is, and it’s all in the same place.

troubleswillbeoutofsight · 10/03/2019 19:10

Top shelf of kitchen cupboard in a tupperware container

ArmchairTraveller · 10/03/2019 19:11

I have 3. One in the kitchen, one in the workshop and one in the car.
Most of the medications are in the kitchen cabinet, but from experience, I want to be able to access bandages and plasters easily whilst trying not to leak everywhere.

Dyingforchocolate · 10/03/2019 19:13

Highest kitchen cabinet shelf, I have to reach on my tiptoes to get to it!

spugzbunny · 10/03/2019 19:14

Am I the only person who keeps it in the bedroom? That's where the full kit and back up of regular medicines live anyway. I have a small kit of plasters and pain killers in the kitchen junk drawer. How many kitchen cabinets do people have??

Bamaluz · 10/03/2019 19:16

First aid kit next to kitchen sink.

Medicines in bathroom cabinet or cabinet in downstairs loo cabinet.

I'm a childminder and we are told to keep the first aid kit easy to find and medication separate and out of reach of children.

Roomba · 10/03/2019 19:16

General first aid stuff - in a tub in the bathroom cupboard.

Medications - in a lock box high up in my room, as I have medications which could kill a small child easily if they came across it and took any out of curiosity.

Shortandsweet96 · 10/03/2019 19:16

All of our medicines and plaster and first aid bits are on a top shelf in a high cupboard next to the sink.

I have a 1yo niece who loves to explore my pots and pans cupboard so everything toxic has to be kept our of reach. Which suits me fine as were ttc so should already be slightly baby proofed lol

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