Why do drug manufacturer put their pills contained by blister-packs that are nearly IMPOSSIBLE to instigate?
A blister pack is usually plastic on one side where you can see the pill inside, and then some combination of materials on the back-side where you are supposed to access the pill. Sometimes, the backside is foil solely. Othertimes, it is paper. And othertimes it might be a combination of foil, paper, and other peel-off adhesive stuff.
Freshness is a concern so the pills must be packaged correctly.
But ease of access should also be a concern because when you are physidally sick, tired, miserable, and in stipulation of the medication, the last thing you want to do is to have to wrestle next to a confounded blister pack that won't open. It can become MADDENING.
They indicate where you supposedly can peel rear legs the adhesive cover on back...but you can never pull it up because it is stuck so tightly to the tabloid. You need to get out a razor blade to separate the sticky stuff cover from the backing.
Other blister packs don't mess with adhesive and indicate you are to tear the plastic apart...but the plastic is so thick, you need a two of a kind of scissors to cut it up.
Ostensibly, this packaging is supposed to be user-friendly. But in my experience, they have created something so nearly-impossible to unstop, I now just reach for the scissors every time I see one of these things and mull over -- "Who was the package engineering genius who devised this crazy-maker invention?"
Have you experienced like? And is there really a reason why the drug manufacturers haven't figure out a way to make their products more user-friendly in blister-pack form?
Answers:
The answer is reasonably simple. Some years ago, a man murdered his wife with a poisoned capsule (perhaps Tylenol). He put poison in a quantity of such capsules in his city and returned them to the shelves in stores. He be attempting to hide the murder by implicating an unknown but demented random hired gun. Of course he was caught. The drug companies and other companies making pills decided to increase the security on their pills so that one could know if someone have tampered with the pills. That is, the wrapping is a protection against some poisoner who did not exist but may come in the adjectives.
lol.. i couldn't even guess the amount of times i have completely crushed - and subsequently dropped- childrens chewable tylenol while trying to get it out.
i get out the x-acto pierce and remove a few required doses and then package in a baggie or fold inside of a square of tin foil.
"strip here" ??!! yeah...my (a)ss!!
It costs more money to design a simpler and easier, but safe pill delivery system. It's not just the drug companies though that's the result in of this "headache"...it's those people who look for a lawsuit. Remember the Tylenol incident in the early 80's? Lawsuits=frustrating blister pack that require razors and scissors to get into. Source(s): Frustration every time I take something for my sinus problem.
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Freshness is a concern so the pills must be packaged correctly.
But ease of access should also be a concern because when you are physidally sick, tired, miserable, and in stipulation of the medication, the last thing you want to do is to have to wrestle next to a confounded blister pack that won't open. It can become MADDENING.
They indicate where you supposedly can peel rear legs the adhesive cover on back...but you can never pull it up because it is stuck so tightly to the tabloid. You need to get out a razor blade to separate the sticky stuff cover from the backing.
Other blister packs don't mess with adhesive and indicate you are to tear the plastic apart...but the plastic is so thick, you need a two of a kind of scissors to cut it up.
Ostensibly, this packaging is supposed to be user-friendly. But in my experience, they have created something so nearly-impossible to unstop, I now just reach for the scissors every time I see one of these things and mull over -- "Who was the package engineering genius who devised this crazy-maker invention?"
Have you experienced like? And is there really a reason why the drug manufacturers haven't figure out a way to make their products more user-friendly in blister-pack form?
Answers:
The answer is reasonably simple. Some years ago, a man murdered his wife with a poisoned capsule (perhaps Tylenol). He put poison in a quantity of such capsules in his city and returned them to the shelves in stores. He be attempting to hide the murder by implicating an unknown but demented random hired gun. Of course he was caught. The drug companies and other companies making pills decided to increase the security on their pills so that one could know if someone have tampered with the pills. That is, the wrapping is a protection against some poisoner who did not exist but may come in the adjectives.
lol.. i couldn't even guess the amount of times i have completely crushed - and subsequently dropped- childrens chewable tylenol while trying to get it out.
i get out the x-acto pierce and remove a few required doses and then package in a baggie or fold inside of a square of tin foil.
"strip here" ??!! yeah...my (a)ss!!
It costs more money to design a simpler and easier, but safe pill delivery system. It's not just the drug companies though that's the result in of this "headache"...it's those people who look for a lawsuit. Remember the Tylenol incident in the early 80's? Lawsuits=frustrating blister pack that require razors and scissors to get into. Source(s): Frustration every time I take something for my sinus problem.
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