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Notes from the home medicine cabinet.

Practical guides, product updates, and stories from behind the scenes. Short, concrete, no health esoterica.

A medicine box and leaflet with the key terms highlighted: brand name, active ingredient, form, strength, reimbursement.
medicine information

Medicine Terms Glossary: Plain-Language Guide

Active ingredient, form, strength, OTC vs Rx, substitute, PIL, SmPC, reimbursement β€” what the words on the box and leaflet actually mean, in plain English.

Infographic: tick after a walk β€” 5 steps after returning from woods, park, meadow, or garden
tick after a walk

Tick After a Walk β€” What to Do

Found a tick after a walk in the woods, park, meadow, or garden? Check the first steps, what not to do, and how to prepare your medicine kit for tick season.

Infographic: school medicine kit 2026 β€” what to prepare at home and what to agree with the school, 5 categories
school medicine kit

School medicine kit 2026: what to pack

What goes in a school medicine kit, what to agree with the school, and how to keep an eye on expiry dates. A practical, no-nonsense checklist for parents.

Infographic: from panic after a missed medication dose to one precise question for your pharmacist β€” the mojApteczka app shows a dose counter, today's schedule with status, and low stock, while the verdict stays with a person
missed dose

Missed a Medication Dose β€” What to Do

Missed a dose and unsure what to do next? mojApteczka shows the facts β€” dose counter, today's schedule, low stock β€” and the verdict stays with your pharmacist.

Infographic: where to look in the leaflet for warnings about alcohol, dairy, grapefruit and probiotics during a course of antibiotics
drug interactions

Antibiotics and Alcohol: Dairy and Probiotics

Antibiotics with alcohol, dairy, grapefruit and probiotics β€” where to look in the leaflet for warnings, what to ask your pharmacist, and how to organise the gaps in mojApteczka.

Infographic: how to prepare your home medicine cabinet for autumn allergy season β€” review, expiry dates, restock, storage
autumn allergy

Autumn Allergy Medicine Cabinet Checklist

Autumn allergy season is back and your drawer is a mess again. See how to check expiry dates and organize your home medicine cabinet for indoor allergens.

Infographic: 6 steps to organizing a home medicine cabinet when someone takes many medications every day
medicine cabinet organization

Organizing a Cabinet of Many Daily Meds

A relative takes 5+ medicines every day and it is easy to lose track? See how to list, group and keep a whole cabinet in one place, without the chaos.

Six organizational steps for the medicine cabinet after hospital discharge β€” from logging medicines off the discharge sheet to a PDF report for the follow-up visit.
medicine list

Organizing Your Medicine Cabinet After Discharge

Home from hospital with a discharge sheet full of medicine names? Log medicines, set reminders, check expiry dates, and share the list with a caregiver.

Infographic: how data from Poland's Register of Medicinal Products reaches the mojApteczka app β€” source dane.gov.pl, record fields, and the daily update path.
Register of Medicinal Products

Poland's Medicines Register (RPL): A Guide

What the Polish Register of Medicinal Products (RPL) is, who runs it (URPL), what data it holds, and how mojApteczka uses the open dataset to find medicines.

Infographic: five steps to organize your pet's medicine kit β€” carve out a group, sort by category, track expiry, log the vet's schedule and share with the household
pet medicine cabinet

Pet Medicine Cabinet β€” How to Organize It

Drops, deworming tablets, post-op meds β€” how to carve out your pet's medicine kit, track expiry dates and share the list, kept separate from human meds.