Medicine Cabinets Shouldn't Exist

“Don’t go based on vibes”, well there go my life plans…

There are no gloves in my glove compartment.

I've never thought too much about it, but we do not call it a medicine cabinet here in Brazil. We usually call it either just "cabinet" or "the little door in the bathroom" or "the mirror door" or something like that

Just change the name. Mine's full of hair products, bandaids, comb, brush, toothpaste, mouthwash .... the pills go in the kitchen... where all the stuff that goes in your mouth is. 🤷‍♀️ I like the little cabinet on the wall with a mirror.

"Take insulin, for example."* *Not medical advice.

In none of the households I've lived in did people keep pills in the bathroom. In every household I've lived in, they're kept in the kitchen or the user's purse. I keep my 101 yr old grandfather's 6 meds on the top shelf in his closet and fill his pill tray every Sunday.

Ranitadine was my go to med. ☹️ It was only $6/ bottle and it WORKED. the study when this all happened only said that it COULD increase the cancer risk if temps reached advice 200°F. I was so mad that it got pulled if out takes that kind of extreme.

Keeping medicine in the bathroom never made sense to me, but never thought about the humidity/temp. My priorities were/are about privacy, safety, and security.

Hi Hank!\n\nMy next band name will be Aspirin AKA Asprin

No, we absolutely do not store medicine in the medicine cabinet. Not because the bathroom is a bad place for medicine, though. One, we need that storage space for other, bathroom-related things, like leave-in conditioner, moisturizer, hair brush, etc. And two, we have WAAAAY too much medication to fit in that cabinet. It takes up a whole drawer (18x20x10 inches) and is so full it's hard to get the drawer open.

This is why as an autistic person I literally took to putting it in jars and a case intended for weed. It controls humidity and is fully light-blocking.

With the point on how to reduce the humidity in the bathroom, you should be running the fan for more reasons than just preserving the medicines a bit longer. You also don't particularly want to encourage mold growth in your bathroom.

My house had no air conditioning before 2 years ago and I live in a swamp. I'm toast lol.

I never keep medicine in the bathroom. I keep everything but medicine in the medicine cabinet. Lol. We use it for our toothbrushes, toothpaste, and mouthwash.

Mine is just extra storage in a tiny bathroom, holding my skincare, toothpaste, deodorant and some of my makeup. I keep my medicines either in my kitchen cabinet (furthest from the stove) or by my bed.

I don't know if they're not a thing here in Italy or I'm just out of touch, but I've only ever seen bathroom medicine cabinets in American movies and TV shows. Never had one, never heard of anyone having one

That cabinet in the bathroom is for tooth brushes, hairbrushes etc. Meds, firstaid, etc are in a cabinet in the kitchen. :)

We have a first aid cupboard in the kitchen? But it’s mostly sealed bandages and dressings. Considering the high rate of potential accidents on offer in a kitchen, it just made sense to me to keep supplies there. For example if a burn is sustained that needs further treatment, after keeping it under running water for 20 minutes, the burn safe dressings are within arms reach of the kitchen sink.

Prilosec and Nexium are proton pump inhibitors, Ranitidine is an H2 histamine receptor antagonist. Just because they are all "heartburn medications" does not mean they are interchangeable substitutes for each other if you are using it for other things like histamine release or metabolism disorders, allergies, bee sting kits that include H1 and H2 antihistamines etc. I thought it was very interesting when I learned that some bee keepers have "heartburn" meds in their first aid kit and also that one of the effects of histamine is to tell your body to make a bunch of stomach acid, presumably to kill whatever bad thing you possibly just ate. It might make an interesting video to cover some of the medications that have been replaced with newer drugs with entirely different mechanisms and the ways the previous ones are still used. Cromolyn is another example that I think was the first asthma medication and is still used for other things but usually not asthma.

The only medicine we keep in the medicine cabinet is stuff like polysporin, nasal spray or skin creams. Pills are stored in the kitchen because that's where we keep the glasses. We store insulin in the fridge.