What 5 Nurses Keep In Their Medicine Cabinets

Snooping inside a medicine cabinet while using the bathroom during a party is a particular guilty pleasure.  What eye cream does your host use? What kinds of medications are they on? It’s natural to be curious and often, you’re comparing the regimens of acquaintances to your own. For example, do you have the same emergency first aid stash?   If you’re snooping inside the medicine cabinet of a nurse, you might feel the strong urge to copy what you see. In this case, HuffPost has done the peeking for you: Among the nurses contacted for this story, over-the-counter painkillers, bandages and topical antibiotics were among the most frequently cited medical supplies they kept on hand, but outlier items included allergy medication, medical clamps and a stethoscope.  In the case of an actual emergency you’d want a real live nurse in the house, but for everyday problems, we’ll settle for a nurse-caliber arsenal. Here’s what five registered nurses have in their medicine cabinets and why:  1. Andrea Kabacinski, associate director of nursing, neurosciences, Stony Brook Medicine What's in her medicine cabinet: Bacitracin and ibuprofen I have Bacitracin, which is handy for treating any cuts, burns or scratches in the skin. If you apply it right away it will prevent an infection from starting.  Also important if you have kids because they have so many cuts and scrapes. I also have ibuprofen handy which is a great ...
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