Two ways of a more confident handling of pills

Weekly Pill Organizer- Moments of the day

     Many of us have a medicine cabinet in our bathroom, where we store all medications we have needed, so over time it fills more and more of medicines. We also have the medicines we take daily, either for the treatment of a medical condition or simply to supplement our daily diet with the necessary vitamins. Usually, if more than two daily medications need to be ingested, which should not be forgotten, the most convenient way is to use a "Weekly pill organizer". With this organizer we can place the medicines that we need in the days and hours that we must take them. This way, we keep track  of the consumption of our medications. Sometimes we have our personal agenda so full and we forget certain things like taking our medicine. For this reason it is recommended to store this pill organizer in a place where you can easily look at, afor example, the kitchen, which we visit several times a day.

     When we plan a trip we want to take the least amount of items, so we pack our pills in small bags or we use these pills organizers staples on a trip. In my case, to save space in the kit, my mother discarded packaging of medicines and puts them altogether in a bag inside their plastic packaging, which does not identify the drug, only the active ingredients and some warnings. This makes my life complicated when I am going to get an allergy pill and I do not know how to difference it from the headache pills.

    Technology always thinks in us. That's why the platform www.drugs.com created a pill identifier. How does it work?... it consists of only three easy steps to identify a pill.

   1) Identify the enumeration in the tablet, the color and the shape thereof. (As shown in image #x)

(Note: All Rx and OTC drugs in the US are required by the FDA to Have an imprint If your pill has no imprint it Could Be a vitamin, diet / herbal / energy pill, illicit drug or foreign...)

   

   
2) Go to: http://www.drugs.com/imprints.php.Then write the information of the tablet in the search.

   3) Compare the tablet with the picture illustrated to ensure that the appearance is similar and you get it!

Weekly Pill Organizer 

     These two tools will help us to not forget to take a dose of a pill and keep track of what we take. With the "Weekly pill organizer" we make sure we organize our drugs in the hours or days corresponding, depending on our necessities. In case you forget if you took the dosis or not, you have the security of verifying if the pills stay in the organizer. On the other hand, if we have problems identifying the name of a pill we have the facility to access a pill finder to submit the information of the pill and know the name, active ingredients and other important information about the identity of the pill. Using these tools helps us verify our medicines before consuming them, thus preventing an accident from an equivocal dose or ingesting a double dose of the same medicine by mistake.

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