What's in your medicine cabinet?

[HarryBoa]

I do the weekly shop for my mum and this week she asked for Elastoplast wound spray and burn jel. I'd never heard of them before. I feel as though my cabinet could do with a review. I have plasters, savlon, pain relief, saline wash. I used to like browsing in the medicine aisles for things for the medicine drawer (strange I know) but these days I'm in and out no messing around.

So instead I thought I'd ask you all. What do you all have?

Dioralyte
Imodium
Cystitis stuff
Paracetamol
Neurofen
Cough medicine
Plasters, sterile pads, wound spray, blister plasters, bandage
Deep heat
Deep ice
Worming tablets
Hayfever tablets
Sudafed nasal spray
Puriton liquid
Insect bite spray
Headlice stuff

I have a first aid kit for when I'm coaching (planters, bandages, cool packs, hot packs, anti histamine gel etc).
Medicine cabinet has calpol. Paracetamol, cracked heel cream, ibroleve gel... It's probably All out of date though.

Paracetamol
Plasters/Compeed
Hayfever tablets (for DH/DC)
Anthisan
TCP
Loperamide

Hardly anything

Ibuprofen, a few plasters, some buscopan, antisthan and savalon.

DS has his own meds cupboard though. Sodium Valproate, calcium tablets, melatonin, Puriton and serevent. Then he has a fridge shelf with fortini, forticreme and fortisips, and a meds bag with his epipen, buccal midazolam and salbutamol.

Piriton

So much haha but I'm neurotic about stuff like this. Also have an emergency first aid kit in the boot of my car.

Yeah I’d add antihistamine and waspese.

And some sort of Imodium and buscopan and rennies type stuff.

Mag sulph for drawing ointment.

Co codamol as well.

Most things! You name it, we probably have it! We don’t have a medicine box, we have a whole medical cupboard with 3 shelves and 6 baskets!

Don't you find it doesn't get used much abs all goes out of date after couple of years?. I don't care about dates on things but I'd want my Imodium to be fully working if I needed it.

For somethings dates don't matter but still

I do need to review mine though. These are lovely lists of items

I have a whole kitchen cupboard full of stuff! When I open the door I have to take a few steps back to avoid the avalanche. I have everything - plasters, bandages, the non stick dressings, tape, steristrips, antiseptic spray, after sun, sun screen, anbesol, paracetamol, ibuprofen, anti acids, dioralyte, electrolytes, diarrhoea tablets, laxatives, savlon, strepsils, rescue remedy in liquid and lozenge form, arnica in cream and tablet, a load of different inhalers and then boxes of six different prescription medications! I even have a dog first aid kit although my ddog died a couple of months ago. I live alone now far away from family so I need to be prepared!

Yes I love these lists, thank you!

Yy to things going out of date. This thread has prompted me to have a sort!

Ah I remember the days of having worming medicine in the cabinet "just in case". I was regularly thankful for it.

Waspese is something I don't have. Good call.

Ours is shocking - absolute basics of OTC pain meds and some ancient plasters but also leftover strong pain meds, leftover dressing packs from various surgical wounds (doubtless also out of date). DH is a paramedic, very much a case of cobbler's children here. (also our kids are grown up)

The thing I use most often is a roll of hypafix + dressing pads.

Oh! I also forgot antihistamines! I saw above about the wasp treatment. Did you know vinegar neutralises stings? I always carry a few of those little sachets of vinegar that you get from pubs with me.

all of my prescription meds , neurofen for kids , calpol , fabric plasters , antiseptic cream , immodium , steroid cream , terbinfine cream , cetraban cream , and the cats pain relief for his idiopathic cystics when it flairs up plus pain relief and gut stimulants for attacks of stasis for the rabbits

Ooh steristrips - yes - I used to have those and have used them. Will get some more. Lactulose - I bought this recently for DS1, having used it after just having him many years before - this has become a cupboard staple again.

I think the most random item in our cabinet is a tick removal credit card type thingy. Obviously when it is most needed I will forget that I have it.

Paracetamol
Ibuprofen
Selection of childs colourful plasters
Normal plasters
Antiseptic wipes
Gaviscon
Co-codamol
Calpol/Calprofen
Piriteze
Childs pirotin
Spare inhaler
Spare Epi Pens

@Purplewithred I've just googled hypafix - that seems like a good thing to have for bigger / oddly shaped wounds.

@OldTinHat I didn't know that and that is really useful, thank you. In fact I do have a few vinegar sachets in the (cutlery, er) drawer.

Hypafix is brilliant for odd wounds on your hands and feet, I spent many happy hours as a first aider on long walks/runs taping feet together again. Also excellent for broken nails, popping over bites you don't want to scratch, and for medical-themed gift wrapping.

I forgot about the tick remover. Probably our most often used item.

I have 4 categories

1. wound care: plasters, would coverings, antiseptic wash, antiseptic cream
2. pain relief: ibuprofen, paracetamol, naproxen (prescribed for a chronic pain condition)
3. allergies: antihistamines, steroid creams, inhalers
4. everything else: immodium, eye wash, nasal decongestant etc

I'd add compeed to the list.

Half the chemist. I only said to DH the other day if someone ever comes here and needs something from the medical CUPBOARD see wiuld have to get it for them so they didn’t see it as there’s so much it’s actually embarrassing!!

One medicine box has bandages etc, surgical spirit, seasick tablets, antihistamines, thermometer, various wrist/knee supports acquired over the years. All the stuff that virtually never gets used.

Then in my dressing table I have hydrocortisone and daktarin creams.

Kitchen drawer has plasters so the kids can get to them easily. High up in the kitchen is another medicine box with DH's prescription meds, plus ibuprofen and paracetamol, we usually have some lemsip sachets in the kitchen too.

My handbag - a few plasters, Zovirax, compeed cold sore and blister plasters plus a tick remover in a little pouch that gets moved from bag to bag.

Oh yeah. Lemsip and Sudafed. And vicks.

And sun creams.

I check the cabinet twice or three times a year and Chuck the out of date stuff.

Painkillers
Sleeping tablets
Anti histamine- tablets and liquid
Plasters
Burn dressings
Hydrocortisone cream
Antihistamine cream
Canesten
Savlon
Epi pens
TCP
Rehydration tablets
Lavender stick for migraines
Olbas oil
Lidocaine cream
Inhalers
Nasal sprays
Cough mixture
Day and Night Nurse