I hate to be the bad news bear but
Certain drugs over time lose their effectiveness.
Other drugs will become toxic.
I researched Fish Mox / Amoxicillan
The old Amoxicillin will not hurt you, but is probably too old to be as effective as it should be
Source: HealthTap,
https://www.healthtap.com/user_questions/6658432#
And another quote.
A Special Note About Expired Antibiotics
You should not keep expired antibiotics to use at a later date. However, the reason has less to do with the expiration date and more to do with how antibiotics work.
For example, let’s say you have 4 or 5 antibiotic pills left from an older prescription, and you’re thinking that you should keep them and take them later if you start feeling sick again over the winter. This is not a good idea for a number of reasons:
Doing so could actually help the bacteria become more drug resistant.
A few leftover antibiotic pills are not enough to rid the bacteria from your body.
You would be self-diagnosing which can be very dangerous. What you think is a bacterial infection requiring antibiotics (because the symptoms are similar to what you had before) may in fact be a viral infection that antibiotics will do absolutely nothing for.
Therefore, when it comes to expired antibiotics, you should always dispose of any leftover pills or liquid antibiotic prescriptions — regardless of the date on the packaging. Antibiotics are one expired medication you don’t want to mess with.
So if you have medications research what you have. And then make the decision.
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