To keep your house perfectly organised is always a hard task. Even if you try to do your best in arranging your kitchen and closet, you may be missing your Medicine Cabinet. People don’t usually pay great attention to it – they only check it when they have a headache or high temperature and hopefully this happens as rare as possible. However, it is essential to keep your medicine cabinet strictly organised in order to know your medications better as ingesting old ones may be as inefficient as dangerous for your health. Read on and follow our helpful tips.

• The most important thing about keeping your medications organised is storing them in the right place. The bathroom is not one of those places so if your medicine cabinet is there, make sure to change the spot immediately. Most of the medications are susceptible to heat and humid environment and we all know that bathrooms tend to provide exactly this ambiance. Reliable advance that end of tenancy cleaners shared is that in their opinion the two safest places are a dining room cabinet or a desk drawer – this spots are dry, cool and out of the reach for pets and children.

• Always check the expiration dates as it is more likely to find some old medications that are no longer effective and safe. After precise inspection, toss those which have expired. The same applies if you find painkillers or antibiotics that you haven’t finished but you can’t remember when was the last time you have used them. Throw them away to prevent any possible harms for your health. Better do this task next time you start your house cleaning procedures.

• In order to organise your medicine cabinet in the best way, you should put the most frequently used medications on front. Any other ones you can keep in the back or on a hard to reach shelf. Still, don`t forget to check their expiration dates from time to time. Advice for people with little kids is to lock the cabinet as we all know they are very curious.

Spend some extra 15 minutes next time you do your chores and organise your medicine cabinet – it concerns your and your family’s health!