How do you store medicines, plasters etc? (Incredibly mundane, I know…)

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Hello

A very mundane one: how do you store your medical supplies?

I’ve never found bathroom cabinets great as they have narrow shelves and things tend to fall out. And no drawers in the bathroom. So we’ve tended to just store ours in a wicker box. However, it’s sort of overflowing and can be hard to organise…

Tell me, wise mumsnetters, what are your solutions?

Plasters, painkillers, bite cream etc in a high cupboard in the kitchen. Antihistamines and inhalers in my bedroom.

In a plastic basket on a high shelf in a high kitchen cupboard.

I've a fake grandfather-style clock in my living room, where the cabinet where the pendulum would be on a real one is shelves. It can be locked, and was when my kids were little, now they're older we don't usually.

That's where most of our medicines and plasters exist, with a small basket of medicine in my bedroom.

Old biscuit tin but in high up cupboard

Airing cupboard in the bathroom, a high shelf creates a separate storage cupboard up top. Plastic box containing less-used med supplies, and less-used toiletries like sunscreen and mozzy spray goes up there. Have to use a mini step ladder to get up there but the one I got from Argos fits in the bottom part of the airiing cupboard.

Aspirin/ibuprofen tucked behind glasses in kitchen cupboard. HRT patches and similar stored with moisturisers etc in the cupboard below the sink in my bathroom.

I use a kitchen cupboard for all medicines. I have refurbished some takeaway containers and labelled them up with medicines by type. Eg lemsip- cold & flu-plasters- antihistamines etc.
2nd shelf is for bottles or bigger items - thermometers- suncream etc

Paracetamol, ibuprofen, antihistamines, imodium etc in a kitchen cupboard - medicines shelf (used to be high up but DC are taller than me now).
Plasters etc are in a green first aid box slotted in next to the microwave in an other kitchen cupboard. Only have this because my office closed and it was going to be thrown away, before that they were in a tuperware box that exH had for medical supplied when he used to go diving.

Big plastic Tupperware box on a high shelf in kitchen. Started this when children were small so they couldn’t accidentally get them

We keep ours in these plastic boxes (I think this is the size maybe bigger but the same brand) in a low cupboard in the kitchen. The cupboards are half the depth of standard ones and the boxes are a perfect fit. They're also really hard for kids (and DH) to open, I also use them for craft stuff that I don't want spilling everywhere.
We have a box for adult medicine, one for children's, one for plasters and antiseptic and one for DC's allergy stuff and inhalers.

Plastic boxes in a top cupboard in the utility room. A few painkillers in the bathroom cabinet in case they are needed at night.

In the Drawer of Shit in the spare room.

Ikea did this great bathroom cupboard which is about five foot tall and the shelves come out about 25 cm. it hangs in the wall and fits everything in, so I don’t have to have anything out at all.

Plastic boxes for first aid supplies in bathroom.
Medicines: bottles in kitchen on high shelf or in a box in high cupboard

I have a drawer in the kitchen where it's all stored. Some separate ibuprofen and HRT stuff in my bedroom. I don't bother with the high up thing - my children are a bit older though.

In the past in another house I did have a locked bathroom cabinet. But the drawer is better - it's just all thrown in.

I've a whole cupboard, divided into different Tupperware style boxes for children's, first aid, dh's and mine (both on medication for various ailments). When I keep them in separate places (I had a Covid cache for a while!) it amazes me how over-stocked I get. I don't like having too many pain killers in the house with teens tbh.

Bottom drawer in my bedroom.
In first aid bags. One general one that comes on holiday with us, one with more serious bits in. And then some random extra boxes of plasters, painkillers etc thrown in alongside.

Tupperware box in kitchen cupboard. High up but children all teens now anyway! DH keeps his daily medicines in the bathroom so he remembers when he cleans his teeth.

Old yoghurt pots! Marker pen label on the side: first aid, antihistamines, painkillers, vitamins, etc. In the bathroom cabinet and a high kitchen shelf.

when the kids were smaller we had a metal lockable first aid cabinet in the bathroom for the 'bad stuff' and then everything else was in a basket.

We have just moved and we now have a very tall cupboard from Ikea (from the floor to taller than DH) full of little plastic boxes from ikea and labelled eg plaster or ibruprofen or diangnostics (thermometer and oximeter etc) another with nits stuff, another with eye stuff etc etc probably about 30 boxes
at the bottom are larger baskets with things like suncream.bug spray etc

Non toxic first aid stuff in a drawer in the kitchen. Drugs on the top shelf of my wardrobe

Big plastic box in cupboard. At the front of the box I have about 6 ziplock bags that contain stuff for same ailments so you can just grab the whole bag instead of searching. One for coughs/colds, one for heartburn & indigestion, one for minor burns and grazes, etc. I’m the most disorganised person usually but this has been a game-changer.

Thanks everyone.

I feel like I have an awful lot of medicines and stuff but when I go through them end up keeping them all ‘just in case’! If I take over a kitchen cupboard I worry it’ll still just be hard to navigate…

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Big plastic box in cupboard. At the front of the box I have about 6 ziplock bags that contain stuff for same ailments so you can just grab the whole bag instead of searching. One for coughs/colds, one for heartburn & indigestion, one for minor burns and grazes, etc. I’m the most disorganised person usually but this has been a game-changer.

Ah ha this is a great idea

Just one box in one shelf of a cupboard, not the whole thing. Ours is very neatly and tightly packed with everything from painkillers to bandages, antihistamines, etc, it's probably about 8x6 inches at most.

Large IKEA box about 40cm each side. Inside I have lots of cheapo Wilkinson Tupperware boxes. They are annoying tonopen and close but since I don’t open them too often I don’t mind. Sorted into

• plasters/burn plasters
• painkillers
• cough and cold stuff
• anti sickness and antihistamine
• blister stuff/cold sore stuff

I have a separate box with kids medicines inc a beaker with syringes (if the beaker overflows then I throw them away)

Then I keep one pack of pain killers and o e pack of plasters in easy access in a skinny kitchen cupboard