Making it a habit to give your children kids’ multi vitamins can help support their growth and long-term health. Yet, how effective and safe the vitamins are has a lot to do with where you store them. The following guidelines can help you increase the lifespan of kids vitamins and enable you to keep them safely stored.
1. Do not store kids’ multi vitamins in the bathroom or kitchen
The vast majority of us store vitamins in either the bathroom or the kitchen, but these locations are not the best locations because of the variances in heat and the additional moisture that is common to these areas. Cool, dry places in your home that are convenient to your daily routine are a much better choice.
2. Keep vitamins out of the refrigerator
Condensation can build on vitamins that are stored in the refrigerator causing them to lose potency.
3. Keep vitamins in their original containers
Confusion over administering vitamins is more likely to happen if they are kept in unmarked containers or old prescription bottles. To ensure you know what you’re giving to your children, always keep kids’ multi vitamins in their original containers.
4. Always check to make sure the child’s safety cap is secure
Vitamins can look like candy. Some even taste nearly as good as candy, too! Don’t take chances by making it possible for your child to open a bottle of vitamins. Take the extra few seconds to ensure the bottle’s cap is securely locked.
5. Keep kids’ multi vitamins out of reach of children
Perhaps, the most important strategy when it comes to the safe storage of kids vitamins is to keep them out of the reach of children. This means in a cabinet or shelf far above where they can reach. Ideally the cabinet should have a lock on it to prevent adventurous children from climbing to new heights to get their hands on their vitamins.
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