The Definitive Health and Medicine List

College Life
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<p>I’m not saying all the suggestions will work with you or are necessary to you, but I hope in some way they may help.</p>

<p>The Definitive Health List</p>

<p>A scale and a full length mirror: if you’re worried about the freshman 15 and your appearance, a weight scale and mirror in your dorm room will do.</p>

<p>Vitamins

  1. Multi-vitamin: Because beer, Ramen and Pop-Tarts don’t get you all the vitamins and minerals you need
  2. Vitamin C: to keep up your immune system during cold season
  3. Vitamin E: this comes in two forms-- one is in a gel-like pill, the other is in a small glass jar. The ingestion of vitamin E is supposed to soften your skin, strengthen your hair. The vitamin E in a jar-- vitamin E oil-- is often put on scars or stretch marks to advance healing and lighten the scar
  4. Vitamin D/Oscal: to keep your bones strong</p>

<p>Body Protection

  1. Suntan lotion
  2. Bug spray (to keep your skin from those awful mosquitoes etc)
  3. Waterless hand sanitizer <a href=“http://www.purell.com/original.aspx[/url]”>http://www.purell.com/original.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
  4. Condoms/birth control pills/contraceptives etc.
  5. Kleenex or other facial tissue
  6. Contact lens solution
  7. Contact lens case
  8. Sunglasses
  9. Glasses</p>

<p>Medicine Cabinet: It’s good to have a little box or tote in which to store your medicinal needs.

  1. Pain and fever relief-- Tylenol, Advil, ibuprofen
  2. Stomach Relief: Ah, Pepto Bismol.
  3. Bandages and band-aids: for sprains and cuts
  4. Neosporin
  5. Hydrogen peroxide or rubbing alcohol
  6. Cough drops/lozenges
  7. Robitussin/Dimetap for cold/coughs
  8. Eye drops
  9. Allergy medicine: Claritin or Benadryl or other anti-histamine
  10. Cotton balls (for applying any cream or gel medications to a wound)
  11. Anti-Itch cream: for bug bites
  12. Vick’s Vapo Rub: I always put this on my chest and throat when I’m sick
  13. DayQuil/NyQuil
  14. Salonpas <a href=“http://www.salonpas-usa.com/salonpas.html[/url]”>http://www.salonpas-usa.com/salonpas.html&lt;/a&gt; or Icy Hot Patches or Thermal Patches for aches</p>
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<p>3) should include (specifically) ACE bandages, gauze pads and tape, and band-aids. Throw in an ankle brace if you have room. (Says the always-injured Aries.)</p>

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<p>Ugh. The other day I scraped my knee. I realized I never bought bandaids for my dorm… I ended up having to take toilet paper and scotch tape and make a faux-bandaid.</p>

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<p>Hence the gauze pads and tape - which are good for when you have too large a cut for normal band-aids. That happened to me after a car accident. ;)</p>

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<p>When all else fails, duct tape (with a bit of Kleenex to keep the tape from adhering to the wound) works :)</p>

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<p>Another suggestion: a digital thermometer. Can be really handy in deciding if going to the Health Center is necessary.</p>

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<p>That seems like way, way, way overkill to me. Save for some Advil and one or two other things, I haven’t used anything on that list in years.</p>