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Kids man. Kids will get into everything. The pill bottle is supposed to slow them down.
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Submitted 2 months ago by bacon_pdp@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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HikingVet@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
And pets. A paper bag with smells inside means some dog will eat it.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]HikingVet@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Are you asking because you want to see less plastic or you have issues with a saftey cap that doesn’t require a key?
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
it might be fine for most things but not when you get into controlled substances like pain killers, etc.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Sure helps keep it out of the mouths of young children and pets.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Why bother with a paper bag? Save a tree, you have two hands and a pocket.
philpo@feddit.org 2 months ago
Moisture was already noted,but also UV light (brown paper bags are far less UV resistant than you think) and oxygenation is an issue. Even bottles aren’t that good, actually. Blisters are actually better, but even a bit more wasteful.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
You know…Those capsules and coated tablets are…you know…sensitive to moisture?
Example: My capsules get soft as soon as they get wet.
Imagine biting of a gummy bear and then sticking the remaining part on any dry surface. Those capsules can stick better than any gummy bear and they’ll rip apart very easily.After all they (some) are just made out of gelatine.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I get 120 days worth of meds at a time. A paper bag would be destroyed.
But the option would be good, so that I can reuse the bottle.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Just double bag it. 😤
Cherry@piefed.social 2 months ago
Anyone could then tamper. These bottles are there for your safety and for those around you. It allows the product the be tracked in a recall. Regulations are usually there because of stuff like this.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yours maybe.
Mine bottle caps are sealed.
And the bottle has a aluminium seal on top (and it takes a knife or a pocket knife to puncture that. I tried with a finger. It hurt)CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Agree. Never have received tamper evident packaging from a pharmacy. what’s the point? They’re filled in front of me and handed to me.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is a terrible take because medication takers arent the source of the world’s plastic issues. This take is no different than shaming people into sorting their recycling when it just gets sent to some dump in China anyway and individuals, even en masse are not the drivers of mass pollution. Also people frequently reuse medication bottles to securely store various other things and keep them around indefinitey so they are probably one of the furthest things from “the problem” whatever the heck that problem is
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I use pill bottle for mixing paint
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 months ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
That shit is still plastic. Unless I am misunderstanding, OP’s problem is the plastic.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
They won’t come out and say it though.
unmagical@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Guns should also be left in the open for children to play with since we’re on the topic of easy things we can change to threaten the life of those that may not know better yet!
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]unmagical@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Relying on a small child to stay on the ground in order to not accidentally kill themselves is a great way to end up with a dead kid.
Furniture should be anchored to a wall, guns locked in safes with the safety enabled and ammo removed, drugs in child resistant packaging locked in a cabinet, drawers and cabinets secured, etc.
Kids climb stuff, get into things, find things they shouldn’t, AND they emulate what they see their parents do. Putting something out of reach is nowhere near secure enough.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Children are like kids: At times absolutely unpredictable.
yggstyle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s almost like once upon a time we put shit in burlap sacks and paper and discovered that it was a moisture magnet. That’s good for pills right? A moist environment? Possibly warm depending on where you store it? That couldn’t possibly have adverse effects to sensitive compounds we ingest.
JASN_DE@feddit.org 2 months ago
What a fantastic way to destroy the meds.