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Out Of Date Savlon...
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Unopened, but expired in 2006! Would you use it?
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"Common sense post from Eddie" ^^
mikey......maybe OR maybe not.
If by "going off" one means , like cheese, infected, fungus invaded, Eddie is correct.....it is an antiseptic FGS but, if he means effective as an antiseptic then there maybe a problem.
Over the years the molecular configuration may have changed to lessen it's antiseptic effect,or even abolished it.
So, not necessarily common sense by Eddie.....mikey.
However, I would still use it.
mikey......maybe OR maybe not.
If by "going off" one means , like cheese, infected, fungus invaded, Eddie is correct.....it is an antiseptic FGS but, if he means effective as an antiseptic then there maybe a problem.
Over the years the molecular configuration may have changed to lessen it's antiseptic effect,or even abolished it.
So, not necessarily common sense by Eddie.....mikey.
However, I would still use it.
These sorts of creams can physically "go off" ie separate, even in a tube and especially if stored at warmish temperature. When opened and squeezed, you may find lots of liquid comes out...carry on squeezing and eventually the solid part will appear - often hardened or granular and not that easy to spread. That's what would make me discard it.
Methinks that many who have advised to chuck it out use the same logic that forces those who find salad in their fridge one day past their use by date to chuck that out as well.
Wake up and smelll the coffee folks. Savlon cream eleven years out of date will not cause an adverse reaction to the user and most certainly will be more beneficial than no antiseptic at all. Use by date in pharmaceuticals such as creams are only there to increase the profits of the manufacturer at the behest of the consumer. Take it all with a pinch of salt.
Wake up and smelll the coffee folks. Savlon cream eleven years out of date will not cause an adverse reaction to the user and most certainly will be more beneficial than no antiseptic at all. Use by date in pharmaceuticals such as creams are only there to increase the profits of the manufacturer at the behest of the consumer. Take it all with a pinch of salt.
^^^^ which is why I used the words "may" and "can" - with no hint of assertion that it definitely would. We are talking about a tube of inexpensive cream that COULD have been manufactured up to 15 years ago...nothing to get so het up about.
Incidentally, comparing this with discarding an over-date perishable food isn't a plausible comparison at all.
Incidentally, comparing this with discarding an over-date perishable food isn't a plausible comparison at all.
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