Your medicine cabinet should contain the following:
Dressing materials
- Gauze
- Gauze bandages
- Dressing pack
- Elastic bandages
- Sticking plaster (-roll)
- Quick wound dressings
- Burn dressing pack
- Disinfectant
Medicines
- Painkillers
- Cough medicine
- Cold remedy
- Flu tablets
- Throat lozenges
- Gargle
- Preparation against inflammation of the oral mucosa
- Antispasmodic suppositories
- Circulatory means
- Sedative
- Diarrhoea remedy
- Constipation remedy
- Wound and healing ointment
- Gel for insect bites
- Gel for sunburn
- Disinfectant for minor injuries
- Arnica tincture for poultices
- Frequently needed teas (e.g. camomile tea, peppermint tea)
With small children in the house
- Remedy for teething problems
- Remedy for flatulence
- Infant nasal drops
- Infant cough syrup
- Ointment against soreness
- Suppositories against fever
Instruments
- Bandage scissors
- Safety pins
- Splinter tweezers
- Triangular scarf
- Eye patch
- Cotton buds
- Mouth spatula
- Hot water bottle
- Clinical thermometer and children's clinical thermometer
- Bath thermometer
Please observe the following rules
- Keep your medicine cabinet in a cool place protected from light and moisture (e.g. in the bedroom).
- Keep all medicines out of the reach of children.
- Check your medicine cabinet twice a year. The best time is before the onset of the cold season and before the summer holidays.
- Get rid of all surplus old bottles, tubes and small boxes and take them to the pharmacy for disposal
- However, make sure that those things you need for an emergency are completely present.
- Remove any medicines that are missing the label or instructions for use and take them to the pharmacy for disposal
- Observe the manufacturer's storage instructions and shelf life information Follow each intake instruction carefully.
- Eye drops can only be kept for four to six weeks after opening. Note the date of opening!
- Never take medicines in the dark. Danger of confusion!
- Do not take a medicine prescribed for someone else even if you have the same disease.
- Never use leftover medicines from previous prescriptions from your doctor based on a "diagnosis" you have made yourself.
- Do not keep cleaning agents such as stain remover, ammonia, acids, turpentine oil, etc. in your medicine cabinet.
- Stick the telephone number and address of your family doctor, pharmacy and the German Red Cross (ambulance service) on the inside of your medicine cabinet.
- Your pharmacist will advise you on all questions concerning the use, storage and checking for usability, refilling and possible disposal of medicines.