Medical supplies, how to store them at home?

Posted by Ainsley Aiken on August 31st, 2019

If you are running a company that specializes in medical supplies, then you need to ensure that you store them at optimal temperatures and at optimal conditions, at all times. But what happens if you happen to have a sick child and you need to store several medical supplies at home? How do you go about it, and how do you ensure that the supplies are kept safe and secure at all times?

Just read on to know more about storing medical supplies safely at home.

• Assess

When it comes to any medical supply, you first need to assess your needs and what supplies you require. It is strongly advised that you make a checklist, which will make it easier for you to categorize the various medical supplies accordingly. You can make a manual copy for reference, and you can also use some of the online apps for easy organization of your medical supplies.

• Categorize according to need

When you are organizing your medicine and various medical supplies at home, you may want to categorize them by body system. This should make it easy for others to locate the required medicine as well, so for medicines and supplies related to respiratory health conditions, you can store under ‘respiration’ and so on.

Let’s say that you are not at home and your husband may be looking for the right medicine, to give your kid. And that is why, by using a body system, others should be able to locate the required medicines with ease as well.

• Safe location

While for general medicine, you can set up a medical cabinet in the washroom, it would be advisable to store important medicines in a medical cabinet in your bedroom. Just make sure that the cabinet/ shelf is at an appropriate height and that your kids cannot reach them easily. And always keep the cabinet locked, as an additional safety measure.

• Temperature

Please check your medicine carefully; if the medicine in question is required to be stored at cooler temperatures, then you may have to make space in your refrigerator for the same to store these essential medicines, which can include tablets, syrups, injections, and other related supplies.

It would be advisable to go in for a refrigerated medical supply chest if you have to store a lot of medicines, at cooler temperatures and it is safer that way.

These are some of the tips that you would need to check when it comes to storing medical supplies at home.