Where can I buy a set of plastic screw caps for medicine bottles?
The pharmacist can often provide a standard screw cap but sometimes they don't have the right size.
I'm assuming the threads and sizes of medicine bottle caps are standard.
It should be possible with care to cut the outer free rotating cap from the actual bottle closure. The final result might not look as pretty but should function perfectly as a standard cap. My wife has a similar problem accessing her arthritis medications (own goal by the pharmacists!) and once the caps are slackened by me, she just leaves the caps on loosely.
Never seen them, but plenty of containers on eBay.
Or herb/spice jars.
If for someone vulnerable, what about pill organisers?
I'm not sure how your cutting modification works.
There's a way of putting a drawing pin in the top or through the side which then stops the clicky mechanism. It can work reasonably well though it's not brilliant and the drawing pin can get rusty if the bottle contains liquid.
However, rather than do all this I thinks it's easier to just buy a set of bottle screw caps.
That might be your problem.
I don't always transfer the contents because I wonder if some liquid meds are may be very particular about what the bottle is made of.
I would think glass would be okay but I have one ?100 a bottle liquid med which is supplied in a squishy white plastic bottle, so perhaps glass has some drawback in this case.
The cap diameters don't seem to vary much and the threads are always coarse. Isn't this all specified by some Euro-standard or another?
Most people I know who have problems opening child proof caps simply wait until a small child visits and asks them to open all the containers them for them and leave the caps loose :-)
An optimistic assumption. They don't appear to be.
you'd have thought that would be something the EU should/could do. I wonder how much a week it would cost.
As the bottles are never supposed to have their contents transferred to another container and generally now come from the manufacturer in pre-sealed containers or blister packs there is no reason why they should use common caps or threads. (The pre-packaging was introduced in 1998 when the EU prohibited the use of tablet counters for counting and dispensing bulk packaged tablets).
They did - in 1998 when they stopped pharmacists from dispensing from bulk supplies using pill counters and made most medicines pre-packs.
The Human Medicine Regulations 2012 include provisions to enable dispensing pharmacists to remove product from child resistant packaging to enable those patients who have difficulty accessing such packs to be provided with their medicines in alternative containers. However, they are not obliged to do so and can charge a fee if they do.
But, but, but... That's not EUROPEAN LEGISLATION! It surely doesn't exist...?!?
I hate blister packs, which seem to have a built in catapult mechanism that shoots the tablet off who knows where. I recently found a little gizmo from RNIB that you place the blister over the top of an pull a handle down which ejects the tablet into a little receptacle. Problem is the person who uses it says sometimes a circle of foil is also put into the little device.
I used to be able to get ordinary screw bottles cheap from the local vet, but now they put the medication into child proof bottles as well, makes sense, but I'm sure somebody somewhere must make thes old type ones. Brian
Just done one to show you. Very easy with a serrated knife eg steak knife
Before
Then you should be able to move the modified cap to the new bottle or if the threads are different, modify the new one until you have a complete set
I guess there was a good reason for that.
I guess there was a good reason for that. But does it over-ride the EU 'law'
Thank you for the pictures. I've never seen the separate parts of a safety cap.
I'll give that a go.
Several, for a start it dramatically reduced pill consumption. Many people would lose half empty bottles or mix contents up so would simply ask for more. It also reduced the problem of confused users taking pills from one bottle and putting them back in another.
EU law?
I'm confused by what was "banned" here
you say it was "pill counters", but then say that this stopped waste caused by people putting meds back into the wrong bottles,
but if they are still allowed to be dispensed pre-counted by the manufacture into bottles (as some seem to be) how can that be the reason?
tim
Why not invest in a dosette box?
There is at least one UK manufactured medicine which is routinely taken from the manufacturer's supplied bottle of 28 and put into a different bottle with a child-resistant. Some pharmacies absolutely insist on doing this and won't take arthritis or other difficult as a reason not to - Boots has frequently been reported as one that does insist.
It strikes me as utter madness on so many levels. Not least cost of doing it in terms of staff time and the bottle, possibility of contamination, exposure to light, humidity and oxygen, ...
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