Early on in 2009, when the mum still had her leg, update for those that don’t know about mum Operation Lopitoff and she was at home but on IV antibiotics and a vacu pump thing to try and heal the leg.
Well that didn’t work and we were left with bags of saline and other stuff like bandages that were no longer needed, now that the leg had gone. I had presumed that the district nurse team would take it away and someone else would use it. I was wrong, I hadn’t noticed that each bag of saline had the mums name on and therefore could not be used by anyone else! So the only alternative is to hand it into the pharmacy so it could be destroyed or I could use it as a handy ready made neti pot solution?
I would never use something in a frivolous manner, but even checking online to see about donating unused medication, it seems that they wouldn’t want these.
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Yea, don’t worry too much, it’s just salt water… People probably won’t take this back since it’s so cheap, probably would cost more to put it back into the system.
The bandages and stuff you can probablly donate to a local shelter, or you can use it yourself?
I just did a quick Google search on Neti solution concentration and it appears as though these are perfect. The 0.9% w/v concentration of the saline in these bags is the recommended concentration for a Neti solution. These would be perfect for Neti-ing, especially since you know that they are sterile in their packaging. I would recommend discarding any unused solution once the bag is opened, though.