How will the elderly take expired drugs?

Recently, a young man from Heilongjiang felt unwell. After the thermometer measurement, it was found that he actually had a fever, and the young man's father brought him antipyretics. The young man looked at the package and found it very old. After careful reading, he realized that it was actually the medicine in 2002. Fortunately, I found it at this time, otherwise the young man was not at home, and his father might really take the medicine without knowing it. This incident also gave us a lot of warnings. The elderly at home may not have any information about the shelf life.

First of all, any medicine and food actually has a shelf life. If we go to the supermarket to buy food beyond the shelf life, we can directly ask the supermarket for ten times compensation. The reason why the state punishes this kind of behavior so hard is actually because the shelf life is very important. If food is eaten after its shelf life, it is likely to cause our health problems. If we are lucky, it may just be bad. If we are unlucky, it may cause us to get sick. Many people even eat something we can't eat.

Secondly, many old people at home don't really care about these things. They all judge whether something is still edible according to their own life experience. Some elderly people may think that they can continue to eat drugs when they see that they are not moldy, but the changes of drugs are not obvious to their eyes. Therefore, as an informed young man, we must tell the old people at home about the stakes. Many old people's ideas are hard to change, but if we don't help them change, they are likely to get hurt.

Finally, in addition to taking expired drugs, some elderly people also like to take messy drugs. They may think that doctors want to make their money, so they usually buy drugs that they think are effective, but they don't know that many drugs are actually ineffective.