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Health Professionals
OTCsafety.org offers a variety of downloadable tip sheets and charts that healthcare professionals can freely use and share with their patients or consumers. They include:
- Giving Oral OTC Cough and Cold Medicine to Children
- Caring for Older Family Members
- Safeguarding Your Health and Your Baby’s During Pregnancy and Nursing
- Check the OTC Label
- Monitoring Your Medicines
- Your Health at Hand book - Produced by the Consumer Healthcare Products Association and the American Pharmacists Association, the handbook covers all currently marketed over-the-counter medicine categories, includes all over-the-counter active ingredients, and provides regulatory status information as well as examples of applicable brand names.
To order free bulk copies of CHPA Educational Foundation publications, please visit our publications page.
We’ve added a new feature to help people find information and tips about specific OTC medicines. Users can now search by treatment or active ingredient to find information on anything from allergy medicines to pain relievers and fever reducers. Explore the OTC Treatments and Active Ingredients tabs at the top of this page to learn more.
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