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Most medicine has expiration dates. If he needs it only every 3-5 years, it's unlikely the pills will still be usable.
by orbital223 4y ago
Most medicine has expiration dates. If he needs it only every 3-5 years, it's unlikely the pills will still be usable.
- csdvrx 4y ago> it's unlikely the pills will still be usable Pills (and chemicals) are not SSL certificates: they don't cease to work at the expiration date + 1 second.
- bombcar 4y agoThe US government tested a bunch of old World War II medication they found laying around, and it had something outrageous like 98% efficacy or whatever. Maybe a liquid medicine would go bad but I suspect pills are forever.
- TylerE 4y agoAnd in the US at least, FDA requires a max expiration date or one year, despite many being shelf stable for probably decades. I know I read somewhere about morphine pills from WW2 medkits being found to still be useful 60+ years later - like say 30-50% of stated dose.
- ars 4y ago> it's unlikely the pills will still be usable. Yes it will. The pills don't actually expire. They will work unchanged for decades. See: https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/drug-expiration-dates-do-they-mean-anything https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/drug-expirati...