Im a pharmacist the best value medications at Dollar Tree, including a $1.25 lifetime supply gel

Over-the-counter drug prices can be a major headache — but if you’re looking in the right place, they don’t have to be.Grant Harting, a licensed pharmacist in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia, says there are plenty of medications worth buying for just $1.25 at Dollar Tree, and he’s highlighted some of the best bargains — and the ones not even worth the buck and a quarter — on TikTok.Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars each year advertising their brand-name drugs, but generic versions are made with the exact same active ingredients.“Brand-name medications are not always better.Many of them are highly expensive,” Dr.

Niteesh K.Choudhry, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, told Harvard Health Publishing.Grant, who had dedicated his TikTok to educating people about affordable medications, visited a Pittsburgh Dollar Tree to break down which items he think are of good value.The best product of all, he said, is the store’s Iodent Maximum Strength Oral Analgesic Gel, which is made with benzocaine to numb cuts and sores in your mouth.

Similar products are sold by brands like Orajel and Kanka, with typical prices online ranging between $7 and $12.“A dollar twenty-five and you get almost an entire ounce,” he raved.“This is almost a lifetime supply.

This is seriously, like, ten, eleven dollars at the other pharmacy.This is the best product that Dollar Tree has.

I use this myself.I love it, I love it, I love it.”Generally, he added, the best value you’ll find are creams, and he’s a fan of Dollar Tree’s CareAll brand arthritis and muscle pain relief cream.

Its active ingredient is .025% capsaicin, which he estimates costs $6 to $8 anywhere else.Another “great deal” is the CareAll brand anti-itch cream, which is made with diphenhydramine, the same active ingredient in Benadryl.It’s marketed as itch and pain relief for things like bug bites, poison ivy, and sunburn.A nearly identical product is sold at CVS fo...