I hate how medicine bottles hide the dosage info

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May 20, 2019, 07:41 PM

Pale Horse

I hate how medicine bottles hide the dosage info

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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May 21, 2019, 08:11 AM

Perception

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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May 21, 2019, 08:35 AM

Eponym

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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May 21, 2019, 09:08 AM

henryaz

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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May 21, 2019, 09:43 AM

zoom6zoom

quote:
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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May 21, 2019, 10:16 AM

V-Tail

quote:
Originally posted by elde:

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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May 21, 2019, 10:53 AM

Eponym

I use the Mag.LightPro - Magnifying Glass with Light by Falcon in Motion on my iPhone. $1.99 for no ads.

May 21, 2019, 03:46 PM

cheesegrits

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.

May 21, 2019, 03:54 PM

V-Tail

quote:
Originally posted by cheesegrits:

Your iPhone may have a built in magnifier.

Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Magnifier.

Cool! Thank you.