“How do we ensure our patient drops and loses ~80% of his pills and that he slices the absolute fuck out of his fingers in the process?”
They’re locking my mental health goals behind a fidgety Saw trap built from scissors and miserliness.
I’ve had boxes where there were several single pills snipped from their blister packs rattling around in them. These pills in particular are tiny, like you can’t even feel them in your mouth when you take them, but they expect me to be able to finesse one out of a single blister with at least 3 extremely sharp and piercing corners on it 😒
If you’re a pharmacist and you do this, please go ahead and take the pills yourself, you clearly need 'em more than I do, ya sick fuck.
Blister packs should be illegal. Creates waste. All pills should come in recyclable plastic bottles.
Many medicines need a hermetically sealed environment for storage. They break down from moisture in the air, being exposed to oxygen for a prolonged time can cause the active ingredients to break down. Even some of the binders and stabilizers can grow bacteria and mold.
Like bro this person can’t figure out that we have tools for cutting things open? Scissors? Nail clippers? Small blade? Hobby knife?
Could also use a nail file on the sharp edges, or use the curved nail clippers to clip the sharp point. Seems like a lot of solutions to me
There a few many reasons why plastic bottles aren’t the best option for some medications and it comes down to the technical specifications of the drug as well as drug safety regulations.
Iirc, bottles aren’t optimal for formulations that result in friable (brittle) tablets, or those that need to be packaged in a reduced oxygen environment so that you can take out a tablet individually without exposing all the others to regular air, and so that they’re easy to handle and transport individually without exposure to contaminants in the environment up to the moment that they need to be ingested.
I encourage people to look deeper into pharmaceutical technology. It’s a fascinating field full of surprises.