|
The Home Medicine Cabinet |
|
A well-stocked medicine cabinet will help you treat everyday illnesses at
home
Here is a list of useful medicines and dressings with a description of their
uses. All are inexpensive and worth keeping at home in readiness for minor
illness.
|
|
Dos and Don'ts |
- Do not give aspirin derivatives to any child under the age of 12
years.
- Do not take more than the prescribed amount of paracetamol in each
24 hour period.
- Always keep medicines in a safe place with a lock or store them well
out of reach of children.
- You should return out of date or unused medicines to you pharmacist.
Remember that your local chemist can give you advice about medicines.
|
Soluble Aspirin Tablets
 |
For adults and older
children. Good for headaches, colds, sore throats and painful bruises.
|
|
Paracetamol Mixture |
For relief of pain or fever in young children.
|
|
Sedative Cough Linctus |
For dry or painful coughs, but not coughs caused by the common cold.
|
|
Menthol Crystals |
Add to hot water to make steam inhalations for treating catarrh and dry or
painful coughs.
|
Vapour Rub
 |
For Steam inhalations. Also for children with stuffy noses or dry coughs.
Rub on the chest and nose.
|
|
Ephedrine Nose Drops |
For runny noses in children over one year old. Use before meals and at night
but not for more than four days.
|
|
Antiseptic Solution |
One teaspoon diluted in warm water for cleaning cuts and grazes.
|
|
Antiseptic Cream |
For treating septic spots, sores in the nose and grazes.
|
Calamine Lotion
 |
For dabbing (not rubbing) on insect bites, stings and sunburn.
|
Dressing Strips
 |
For minor cuts.
|
|
Crepe Bandage (Three inch wide) |
To keep dressings in place and to support sprained or bruised joints.
|
|
Cotton Wool |
For cleaning cuts and bruises.
|
Thermometer
 |
For fevers.
|
|
Tweezers |
For removing splinters.
|
