{"id":11734,"date":"2024-08-23T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T09:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11734"},"modified":"2024-08-23T09:24:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T09:24:32","slug":"medication-mistakes-pharmacists-want-you-to-stop-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11734","title":{"rendered":"Medication Mistakes Pharmacists Want You to Stop Making"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Common habits like storing pills in your medicine cabinet can reduce their effectiveness, experts say.<\/p>\n

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I recently visited my parents, and I was ransacking their kitchen for snacks when I noticed something: Their medications were in a cabinet near their oven.<\/p>\n

\u201cKeeping your meds there isn\u2019t ideal,\u201d I told my dad. \u201cYou\u2019re cooking all the time, and it\u2019s hot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure it\u2019s fine,\u201d my father said. Then, he looked at me warily. \u201cYou\u2019re going to ask some experts, aren\u2019t you?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cTell Mom and Dad that\u2019s not a good idea,\u201d said Myriam Shaw Ojeda, an assistant professor of pharmacy practice and science at Ohio State University\u2019s College of Pharmacy. Storing medication near a heat source may reduce its effectiveness, she explained.<\/p>\n

My parents aren\u2019t the only people who assume that one safekeeping spot is as good as another. Less than half of the participants in a 2021 study<\/a> were storing their medications appropriately. And that\u2019s just one of the many mistakes that people make when it comes to filling, storing and discarding prescription drugs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Below, pharmacists share their best tips.<\/p>\n