# Medicine expiry tracker: never find an expired medicine again

An expired box at the back of a drawer is easy to miss, and easy to avoid. An expiry tracker takes the remembering off your plate.

## What to do

1. Find the expiry date on the box, often marked EXP or a month and year.
2. Note it down once, together with the medication.
3. Check your list every few months, or let something do it for you.
4. Dispose of expired medicines the way your local pharmacy advises.

## In short

Think of it as a medication log that watches the dates for you: every medicine sits in one list, and you are warned before anything expires.

## How Pharmacy Cabinet helps

- Expiry alerts show what is expired or about to expire as soon as you open the app.
- Duplicate-entry alerts tell you when a medication is already in your cabinet, before you buy it again.
- The whole [household](https://pharmacycabinet.app/help/guides/shared-family-medicine-cabinet/) sees the same list, so nobody has to remember for you.
- An expiry tracker built into your [medication tracker](https://pharmacycabinet.app/help/guides/family-medicine-cabinet-organizer/), so nothing has to be checked by hand.

> Not medical advice. Check your medicine's leaflet and ask your pharmacist about expired or opened products.

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Source: https://pharmacycabinet.app/help/guides/track-medicine-expiry-dates/ · Pharmacy Cabinet (https://pharmacycabinet.app/)