Are you aware of where your home medications should be kept? You are undoubtedly aware that you should keep them out of young children’s sight and reach. However, now consider if that’s what you’re truly doing. This winter, in a research study, 2,000 parents nationwide learned more about their views, actions, and knowledge about the…
OTC drugs and prescription medications are commonly used for flu treatment. New Jersey patients usually take over-the-counter medicines, as OTCs are cheaper and more easily accessible than prescription medications. However, OTC drugs offer symptom relief while prescribed antivirals treat the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends NJ patients to start antiviral…
Vaccine safety is a top priority of healthcare authorities such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the New Jersey Department of Health. CDC ensures that vaccines meet strict safety standards. Parents remain confused about vaccine safety due to misinformation, side effects, too many vaccines at a time, and combination treatment. The…
Your cat needs daily thyroid medication. Your Lab requires arthritis pills twice a day. The veterinary clinic hands you a bill for $165, and you realize these prescriptions are hitting every single month. Nobody warned you that prescription medication for pets would become a line item in your budget rivaling your car payment. Most Howell,…
The bathroom medicine cabinet seems like the obvious spot for prescriptions. It’s called a medicine cabinet, after all. But that steamy bathroom where you shower every day is actually one of the worst places to store medications. Those prescription bottles sitting near the shower absorb humidity. Heat from hot water damages them. Kids can reach…
My daughter came home from school last September with a cold. Two days later, my son had it. By the weekend, I was down for the count. This happened three separate times between October and February. I spent half of last winter feeling like garbage. I’m not big on supplements. My kitchen counter isn’t covered…
Every year around this time, I find myself having the same conversation at least a dozen times a day. Someone sits down in my exam room, and before we even get to why they’re here, they ask: “Should I get a flu shot?” I’ve been practicing family medicine in Howell, NJ, for close to twenty…
Pharmacy runs are the worst kind of errand. You never know how long you’ll wait, someone always needs a refill at the last minute, and tracking different prescription schedules feels like a part-time job nobody asked for. Medication sync changes this completely. All your family’s prescriptions get refilled on the same day every month. One…
Okay, let’s talk about something that’s probably driving you a little crazy – all those pill bottles lined up on your counter. Every time you go to the doctor, it seems like they add another one to the collection. Am I right? You’re standing there in the morning trying to remember if you already took…
The morning I found my mother’s blood pressure medication dissolved in her coffee was the wake-up call we both needed. “I hate swallowing pills,” she confessed, stirring the murky mixture. “So I’ve been crushing them up for months now.” My heart sank—some medications should never be crushed, including the time-release one now ruined in her…