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Not a doctor or a pharmacist.
Many medicines are good well after their expiration date. Expired meds get donated to Africa and they give them out like candy there.
The problem is that some medicines turn deadly after expiration. An example is the antibiotic tetracycline.
What I see as curious is the number of arfcommers who have 20 years of beans, rice, and water but who would not survive without modern medicine for long. It's great to have all that stuff available but if you're going to stroke out from hypertension without your pills, maybe work on losing weight and other things so that you don't need the pills anymore.
Great post. I see a lot of chat about how people are going to survive tough times with all of their decked out ar15's, but wonder how many could run even a few miles if they had to.
As a medical practitioner i feel the patients that are going to have considerable trouble during tough times are the insulin dependent diabetics and epileptics.
Heart conditions that require thinners could also be a problem, but most of those pts have multiple health problems anyways.
Simple medications i would keep on hand for tough times would include benadryl for allergic reactions, tylenol for fevers. Hydrogen peroxide and triple antibotic ointment to keep smaller wounds from becoming major problems due to infection.
Outside of that, best to leave other treatments to pros.