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Leatherneck
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I just got back from buying some cough medicine. My kid is 12 so I wanted to make sure what I was looking at would work for his age and I had to peel the stupid label back on every stupid bottle I picked up.

What’s wrong with putting it where you can read it?




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And the writing on the stuck on label? Microscopically tiny. What idiot came up with that?
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It is frustrating, and there really isn't a good reason for it as far as I'm concerned. You would think they would want to make that info very visible for liability reasons if nothing else.




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You can thank our government. Go to the FDA site and download the document (30 pages). To meet the requirements using a readable font size would take a newspaper-sized sheet of paper (both sides).
 
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I added a magnifying glass APP on my iPhone just to read medicine bottle labels. It works btw.


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Any more, I keep a magnifying glass wherever I sit/work in the house/garage. For the really tiny stuff, I have a 10x loupe on a handle that holds two batteries, making it a lighted loupe. And it's not just medicine any more. Chemicals like Round Up and other stuff hides application doses behind the peel back label.



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Originally posted by elde:
I added a magnifying glass APP on my iPhone just to read medicine bottle labels. It works btw.

right there with ya, although I use it for a lot of things. On Android, there's a great app called Your Magnifier; it also has a built in light function that works better than any flashlight app I've had.




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I added a magnifying glass APP on my iPhone just to read medicine bottle labels. It works btw.
What app are you using?



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I use the Mag.LightPro - Magnifying Glass with Light by Falcon in Motion on my iPhone. $1.99 for no ads.
 
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Your iPhone may have a built in magnifier.

Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Magnifier.

Turn on Magnifier. This adds Magnifier as an accessibility shortcut, which is triple-clicking the Home button. If your phone doesn't have a home button, I'm not sure how it works.

I used this feature just last night to read the dosage on a bottle of Excedrin. Big Grin
 
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Your iPhone may have a built in magnifier.

Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Magnifier.
Cool! Thank you.



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