FIVE BASIC MEDICINE RULES

These five basic medicine rules should keep you and your family healthy and safe.

  1. Always finish prescribed courses of medication, or dispose of any leftovers safely
  2. Never take medicine prescribed for someone else
  3. Make sure all medicines are safe especially from small children
  4. If you don’t know what something is for get rid of it
  5. Don’t keep medicines past their sell by date


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