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The Other John wrote
Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote

What ****es me off is they wrap each one separately. Why?

To make them child proof 'cos idiot kids think they're sweets!
Trouble
is they are not only child proof they're adult proof as well!
With
arthritic hands I have a hell of a job getting them unwrapped.

Cant you keep a small pair of surgical scissors in the box of
tabs ?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Medical-O...Z0Ga-IolczU_eQ

Why should he have to? The tabs should be non-wrapped.

Doesn't work, the stuff is hygroscopic.

You can buy the powder in a bottle without any wrapping and just
pour it in, what's so special about tabs that they need little
wrappers?

They are hygroscopic.

Surely they're just powder in a lump?

Nope, different constituents.

Why?

So it doesn't clump with the powder form.

I'd buy powder or liquid if I could

I wouldn't.

Easier to just pour a bit of liquid in.

I don't agree. I do use a liquid detergent in the washing
machine, but that's because I only wash in cold water
and have a hell of a problem with not fully dissolved
detergent leaving a scum on the very dark blue T
shirts I wear every day, even in winter.

It's a nuisance to have to measure it out tho,
I much prefer to use tablets in the dishwasher.

That's what I do with the washing machine.

I do too, but would prefer to use a tablet.

But there are no good liquid dishwasher detergents.

but all the supermarkets just sell tablets. I don't want ****ing
individual wrappers!

Some tablets have wrappers that dissolve in the
dishwasher so you don't have to remove the wrapper.

Never seen those.

Read the box, plenty of them. Our Aldi ones are like that but for some
reason it's a different brand to yours so may not be true of yours.

It's as bad as paracetamol. That should be sold loose in bottles, not
in silly little push the tablet out and smash it to pieces sachets!

All of my meds are like that now and I don't ever smash any pills.

Some tablets, particularly paracetamol, always break in half.

Never do for me.

The blood pressure meds

I used to take those, they don't work on me at all.

They do for me.

Who's to say what blood pressure is "correct" anyway?

The double blind trials do show that those with the
lower blood pressure do better in the long term as
long as its in the normal range after taking the pills.

Docs seem to think 50% of us have it too high?!?

And there is some evidence that it is.

are also available in little plastic
bottles, because some have only half a pill twice a day but
I prefer the cards with individual push out pills and I now
take one pill twice a day.

Bottles of 100 paracetamol would be so much easier than those ****ing push
out of sealed cards crap.

I hardly ever use anything for headaches, only ever few years.

Less wasteful packaging too.

Sure, but its not bad enough to matter.