The Need For Portable Medication Storage

Today more than ever we have life-saving medications at our disposal. There are more medications than ever in the home, including prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, dietary supplements, vitamins, and herbals. As Safe Kids Worldwide states, “the pace of today’s lifestyle means that medications may not be properly stored immediately after use. The increasing amount of medications in the home poses a threat to children in the following ways:

A rise in multi-generational households increases the risk of children’s access to grandparents’ medications.

Working and single parents who rely on multiple caregivers may not accurately coordinate the timing of children’s dosages; many of which are designed to taste good and may entice them to take the medication when unsupervised.

And, of course, kids and especially young children are curious and love to put things in their mouths.