What are your "must haves" in your medicine cabinet?

**guest2** · 10-15-2004, 01:08 PM

With the cold and flu season coming upon us, I was wondering what you all have stocked up on to help prevent and/or to get you through this nasty time of the year?

Here is my list:
Tylenol
Natural Allergy meds
Vitamins C, E and B
Calcium
Cranberry extract
Multi-vitamins
Echinachea
Goldenseal
Green Tea Extract
Tea Tree Oil (great for so many things)
Boric acid (for yeast infections and also for pink eye, don't use orally!)
Pepto Bismol
Rescue Remedy
Acidopholis
Vicks vapor rub
Throat Coat tea
cough drops
decongestants
cough medicine

**kimmee** · 10-15-2004, 01:12 PM

we have :
Aleve
pepto
multi and c Vits
tea tree oil
first aid
cough syrup
fever reducer
benadryl
cold&Flu
Thera Flu

vicks And a vaporizer
we use the green tea bags and Echinacea Tea Bags.

**Guest1** · 10-15-2004, 01:13 PM

(Military wives will appreciate this) Ibuprofen
Acetamenophen
cough drops
herbal teas
echinacea
zinc
B-complex
ground mustard
Vicks Vaporub
Lip Medex ('magic blue stuff' as Belle calls it!)
baby aspirin
claritin
decongestant
Ny-Quil

(and a freezer full of juice!!)

**Chea** · 10-15-2004, 01:25 PM

I need to stock up my medicine chest so these are great lists!

**Ellise** · 10-16-2004, 03:44 PM

Debbie I think that is all the military prescribes!!

Advil
Tylenol
Pepto
Nyquil
DayQUil
Benedryl
Sudefed
Robitussen
Emitrol (nausea)
Vick's Vapor bath
Comtrex
Vicks 44D
Thera Flu
Nyquil Cough
Echinachea
Zinc Lozengers
Cough drops
Kaopectate
Mulit Vites
C
B 12
Hawthorn
Gas Relief

I think that's about it for cold & Flu season.

**KKCondrey** · 10-16-2004, 04:11 PM

Pre-Natal vitamins
Flintstons chewables (because the PreNat were yucky)
Vitamin B-6
Excedrine (which I can't take anytime soon)
Acetamenophen
Emetrol (from when I was sick this summer)
NyQuil

**COUNTRYBUMPKIN** · 10-21-2004, 05:52 PM

Tea tree Oil
Emu oil
Ascorbic Acid powder
MSM powder
Pearls/probiotic
Primal Defense
B Complex
Natural E
Co Q10 softgels
Wobenzyme
Barley Grass
Hawthorne Berry
Milk Thistle
L Arginine
L Lysine
Potassium
Alpha L Acid
Multi Vitamin Mineral
Zinc
Selenium
Natural antibiotics/colloidal silver/grapefruitseed extract
Essential Fatty Acids
Magnesium powder

**forestdale** · 10-21-2004, 06:03 PM

We rarely get colds or flu and we take vitamins every day so our medicine chest only contains paracetamol, cough drops, CoQ10 and emu oil.
Good to see you on the emu oil too, country bumpkin, it's like a miracle oil.
I'm also on a wheat grass drink every day.

**Beryl** · 01-25-2008, 09:31 AM

multivitamins
vit C
aspirin
kids paracetamol
ibuprofen
cold salve rub incl eucalyptus , menthol , camphor
throat lozenges variety with added vit C
eucalyptus essential oil
lavender essential oil
tea tree essential oil
homemade calendula balm

and the hot water bottles for chills and steamer/vaporizer to open airways

**cab54** · 01-25-2008, 10:02 AM

Aspirin--cheap form the dollar store
NN pepto bismol
Excedrin PM--I take 1 tab when I really can't sleep
NN cough drops

That's about it.

**lwlynch** · 01-25-2008, 10:33 AM

vitamins
aleve
advil
tylenol
niquil
impetac (for poisoning)
benadryl (for allergies and bites, great quickie for the dog and the bees)
pepto bismol
and anti diarreah

**StaceyS** · 01-25-2008, 04:31 PM

All I have is generic advil. I try not to take any medicines becuase they really upset my stomach. Plus, I can't take pills well.
I've recently started taking those vitamin packet from Trader Joe's that are like Emergen-C (but they have more vitamins).