Warning: Hot Temperatures and Power Outages May be Hazardous to Your Medications

As summer heat, storms, and power outages pop up around the country, there's another casualty of the heat we may not realize: our prescription medications -- including thyroid drugs. One reader wrote to me during a heat wave saying "I didn't become aware that the extreme heat had compromised the potency of my pills until I started feeling really lousy a few days later." If you take any prescription drug, you need to be aware of the various ways and places the heat can affect your medication, and what you can do to protect your health.

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