The Anonymous Widower

Is Drug Packaging Distinctive Enough?

I take quiet a few medicinal drugs. Every day, I test my INR and then put the drugs for the next twenty-four hours in an old black 35 mm. film canister, which fits neatly into the bag I generally carry or a pocket of my coat.

When I go away for a few days, I put the required drugs plus a few for luck, in a white film container, which I then transfer to the black one every morning.

Look at these two pictures of two strips of drugs.

One is Spirolactone and the other is 1 mg. Warfarin. When I went to Glasgow because I was in a hurry, I took two Warfarin instead of two Spirolactone. It didn’t matter in this case, but for others similar mistakes could be more serious. A contributory factor in this mistake, was that Boots have started to give me a differently packaged brand of the Warfarin.

The top side of the drug packaging should be distinctive. I think too, that the old brand of Warfarin had the writing on the back in the same colour as the drug. i.e. brown in this case. The new one is just an anonymous black.

August 10, 2014 - Posted by AnonW | Health | Drugs, Warfarin