Prescription drug: EXPIRATION DATE
If you have the habit of not cleaning up your drug cabinet regularly, you are going to have plenty of drugs of which the prescription date has expired. There are plenty of government rules and regulations, which demand that every single medicine have an expiry date stamped upon it.
Not only is the safety called into view, but the potency of the medicine is also going to diminish if you are eating it two years after the expiry date has well, expired. You do not use makeup that is more than 10 years old do you. So why would you not want to eat your prescription drugs within the time limit imposed upon them by the government. Every prescription drug has a one to five years limit in which it manages to show its full potential and power.
But what is a difference if you have a prescription drug whose expiry date has expired? Is it going to be harmful, is it going to cause any problems? Well, this is also another aspect. Some extremely expensive medicines which are supplied to the armed forces were tested to see how much of their potency was affected after the expiry date had passed.
88 % of the medicines were still going strong, even after six years after the date of expiry had passed! That is why here are some drugs that need to be thrown away after the date of expiry is gone. Insulin, nitro-glycerine, any life-saving drug, and any drug that looks cloudy. Your Tylenol and Paracetemol can continue awhile longer even after their expiry date has gone past.
