How to Stock Your Medicine Cabinet According to Experts 2020

September 20,2024

Doctors, nurses, and pharmacists share everything you need for a fully stocked medicine cabinet including Tylenol, Advil, Aleve, Q-tips, Robitussin, Sudafed, Miralax, Pepto Bismol, Imodium, Band-Aids, Vicks VapoRub, and much more..
If you’re caught off guard and need something to stop a cold sore in its tracks, topical cream Abreva is a good place to start. It could be classified as a preventative measure (if you happen to catch your cold sore right at its inception), though it’s officially designed to help decrease the duration of a breakout. It works best when used at the first telltale tingling or swelling and can be applied up to five times a day. Its active ingredient docosanol is an anti-viral medication that King says “inhibits the herpes virus from being able to enter skin cells, where it carries out its viral actions and also replicates to form more viral particles.” And it’s effective. “Clinical trials show that on average, cold sores treated with docosanol healed 18 hours faster than cold sores treated with a placebo.” .
They’re great because they’re clear and coat your eyes. They just wake me up, I don’t know why, but I do just one drop every morning. It’s like my alternative to caffeine.