Clean out your medicine cabinet

While we spend a lot of time spring cleaning our homes, we often forget one important place: the medicine cabinet. Research shows that one in three of us clear out our medicine cabinets less than once a year. Lloyds Pharmacy pharmacist Pareena Patel shares her advice on giving your medicine cabinet a spring clean. ‘Old medicines present a risk of being unsafe if taken past their expiry date, so if your medicine cabinet is stockpiling out-of-date ointments, vintage vitamins, historic bandages and curdling creams, you need to make some changes to ensure your health routine gets the spruce up it deserves.’ She advises that you check the expiry dates of all your medicines every six months, and take all old or unwanted medicines to your pharmacy for disposal.