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MARION APPROACHES YOU near the incontinence pads section and asks if you can recommend any products for her eight-year-old son, who still wets the bed most nights of the week. She says this is really embarrassing for him, and he is reluctant to go on camp or have sleepovers with friends. Her husband has told her he used to wet the bed until he was about nine, and that she shouldn’t worry about it as he thinks it’s just because their son sleeps so deeply.
In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates
Why recognising the signs of dehydration is important...
