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What Do You Keep in Your Medicine Cabinet?

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Robert Marshall, pharmacist and chief executive officer, California Pharmacists Assn. Married, two teen-age daughters. He has a “medicine drawer” instead of a medicine cabinet. * Ibuprofen * Aspirin * Mylanta antacid * Sudafed * Dimetapp * Vitamin C * Contact lens cleaning solution

Mark Ridley-Thomas,Los Angeles City Councilman. Married, 6-year-old twin sons. * Batman Band-Aids * Extra-Strength Tylenol * Junior Tylenol * Mineral oil * Peroxide * Peppermint dental floss * Waterproof matches * Extra-Strength Tums * Dick Tracy bubble bath * Chloraseptic sore throat medicine * Iron pills

John Mendoza,comedian and actor. Single. * Band-Aids * Shaving cream * Multivitamins * Smelling salts * Rubbing alcohol

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Kimberly and David Shaw of Duarte, parents of three children, 7, 4 and 1. * Tylenol capsules * Baby Tylenol liquid * Children’s Tylenol chewables * Tempura infant drops * Stopzit thumb-sucking and nail-biting cream * V. Dayline chewable vitamins with fluoride * Vitamin B6 capsules * Vitamin C tablets * Actifed cough syrup * Seldane * Humibid * Sudafed * Glyoxide antiseptic * Nytol tablets * Carmex cold sore ointment * Sucrets lozenges * Tobrex eye drops (two bottles) * Neosporin cream * Tums * Hydrogen peroxide * Alka Selzer Sinus Plus * Afrin pediatric nose drops * Triaminic cough syrup * Tussi Organinidin cough syrup * Hylands teething tablets * Robitussin cough medicine * Halls cough drops * Polyhistine DM * Sudafed Plus * Ocean nasal drops * Bactine * Kaopectate * Band-Aids (one box of plain, one box Ninja Turtles, one box Beauty and the Beast) * Baby oil * Baby powder * Baby lotion * Colgate toothpaste * Crest toothpaste * Dental floss

Bruce Kirschbaum, wrote “Seinfeld” episode about medicine cabinets. Married, daughter, 4, and son, 14 months. Top shelf: * Bioforce natural cough formula * Ipacac syrup * Massage lotion * Calamine lotion * Metal dental pick * Thermometer (without cover) * Sudafed * Cap from a tube of toothpaste * Dermoplast antiseptic spray pain reliever for pain and itch * Thermometer case (top half) * Cough lozenge (melted) * Two loose bandages * Single Gillette razor blade Next shelf: * Aspirin with codeine * Tylenol PM * Cap from Ban deodorant (but no deodorant) * Spool of black thread and needle * Maalox tablets * AYR saline nasal mist spray * Milk and Honey shampoo (hotel sample) * Container of penicillin (expired June, 1988) * Longevity homeopathic medicine for sinus congestion Next shelf: * Calamine lotion (second bottle) * Empty bottle of teething tablets * Small Tylenol bottle filled with Valium * Bottle of Mexican cough medicine * Thermometer case (another top half) * Ball of cotton * Nail clipper * Body Shop honey and oil scrub * Eyeglass spray cleaner * Imodium AD * Tom’s dental floss * Smashed antihistamine tablet Bottom shelf: * Tagamet * Thermometer container (thermometerless) * Pencil * Metal curler * Small nozzle from a old sink * Nail scissors * Metal crochet hook * Powder styptic pencil disintegrating into dust * Old Spice after shave * Teething ointment * Razor blade from razor no longer made

Tommy Lasorda, manager, Los Angeles Dodgers * Ascriptin * Gillette shaving cream * Gillette disposable razors * Braun electric razor * Cologne (Polo, Giorgio, Rothchild) * Various toothbrushes * Dental floss

Jo Lasorda, president, Lasorda Foods (and our medicine cabinet spy) * Cutex polish remover * Pola cleansing cream * Pola toner * Pola freshener * Pola massage cream * Pola moisture milk * California Health Foods vitamins (calcium and Vitamin C, with bioflavinoids and rutin) * Various toothbrushes * Oxyfresh toothpaste * Lancome eye makeup remover * Hydrogen peroxide * Eyeglass cleaner * Body Shop peppermint foot lotion * Listermint * Listerine * Hair spray and conditioner by Rene Furterer * Melaleuca hair spray

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