10月のお薬大掃除：期限切れの錠剤を処分し、週間ルーティンをリセットする
Most medicine cabinets hold more than we expect: half-finished bottles, samples from a prescription you finished months ago, vitamins that expired last winter. Once or twice a year it is worth pulling everything out and starting fresh. The easiest date to do it is the fourth Saturday of October, when the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration runs its National Prescription Drug Take Back Day at thousands of police stations, pharmacies, and clinics. Why a medicine cabinet clean-out matters Old medicine is not harmless clutter. Three things happen when unused drugs sit in a cabinet: They lose strength. The FDA requires expiration dates because a product past that date may no longer […]