abstract |
A home pharmacy kit provided to organize, educate, simplify and add convenience to the consumer regarding self-treatment with over-the-counter (OTC) drugs and self-management of therapy with widely and commonly used OTC medications. The kit of the invention allows a consumer to achieve appropriate therapy when self-medicating and allows a consumer to avoid therapeutic duplication and over utilization and/or underutilization of medications, which may result from a lack of consumer related to the action and effects of common active ingredients found in a wide variety of cold and cough combination drug products as well as in gastrointestinal combination drug products. |