I write in agreement with Mrs A Hodges (November 2011) article about how hard some tablets are to extract from their packets. My mother, 84,has had the same trouble for many months, asking friends, family and even the pharmacist to decant the pills into another receptacle.
She contacted the manufacturer of the product, Bristol Laboratories of Berkhampstead but having had no response, purchased a 'Poppet pill remover' from the Mobility Shop catalogue - please see attached.
My mother was hopeful that this would be the end of the problem, but if anything it is even worse as having tried it she now finds that the tiny pill ends up in several pieces, some of it ending up on the floor. This means that she may not necessarily be taking the prescribed dosage of the drug.
This is of great concern to me and whilst I do understand that medication needs to be 'childproof' it also needs to be something which the elderly can deal with - indeed I tried to use the pill remover myself with equally disasterous results.
Can someone please urge the laboratories producing this medication to consider the end user and whether they have the physical strength to enable them to adhere to medical advice.
Sandra Perrett
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