Do Americans still get tablets in bottles or is it just in film and TV?
In Europe they only come in blister packs (with a few exceptions)
Do Americans still get tablets in bottles or is it just in film and TV?
In Europe they only come in blister packs (with a few exceptions)
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Like prescriptions or over the counter stuff? Both can come in bottles. Sometimes blister packs but it depends on the medication you’re getting.
Yah prescriptions often come cylindrical plastic ‘bottles’ in the us.
Depends on the particular medication, but yes, bottles are very common.
> In Europe they only come in blister packs (with a few exceptions)
That sounds annoying.
Yes we get them in a bottle, it’s usually orange so that light doesn’t degrade the medication.
The only thing I’ve ever had that was prescription that wasn’t in a bottle was birth control and steroids that need to be taken x amount day one, y amount day 2, etc
Blister packs are awful. Thank the gods for pill bottles.
Here in France a lot of stuff still comes in bottles. Less than 10 years ago but still plenty of stuff.
Yes, bottles are pretty much the norm.
Over the counter is in a blister pack, the “prescribed by a doctor” stuff is in the orange bottles. Our pharmacies will order in bulk and just give each patient a bottle of what they need.
Over the counter medications come in both forms: Bottles of loose tablets, caplets, and gelcaps and boxes containing blister packs. Not certain about prescription medication, little orange bottle with a white cap and loose pills is common and “standard” but I can see it coming in both forms.
Bottles with a free cotton puff on top!
Very common for OTC sleep, pain and allergy meds to still come in a bottle.
Yes, they still come in bottles. We can even buy them at the warehouse stores in hundreds of quantity! That would be hard with blister packs.
Some come in blister though.
Bottles are still common in America, yeah.
Prescription drugs are almost always dispensed in bottles. Blister packs are not the norm for prescriptions.
OTC meds often come in white plastic bottles.
Perscriptions come in the orange-bottle-with-white-cap you see in TV/movies.
There are also some things in blister packs, but not everything.
I’ve only gotten a prescription in a blister pack once, maybe twice. Other than that, all bottles.
Didn’t we just do this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1kg3oip/is_it_true_that_the_pills_in_america_come_in/
Bottles are great, blister packs just seem like so much plastic waste.
Yes, but it depends on the medication. Many things here do come in blister packs.
depends on if it is commercialized or not
Some meds come in bottles, and some come in blister packs. It’s not exclusively one or the other.
Unless it is something that needs to be prepackaged (such as Z-paks, birth control, and dose packs), it usually comes in a bottle. Children’s medicated tablets and tablets that dissolve in water are usually blister packed as well.
I can’t physically open blister packs. My hands just don’t have the strength. I get pill bottles with an easy open lid. How are disabled people supposed to get to their pills if blister packs are the only option?
I get blisters in a bottle. (Migraine meds)
It often depends on the quantity, and what type of tablets. If it’s more than a dozen or so, and it’s from a pharmacy, they’re often getting it from a larger bottle, so those are in little pharmacy bottles. Minor pain relievers are often sold in 30+ count, so they’re also in bottles. Cold and flu tablets, or other things you might only need 6 of, would come in a blister pack.
We call them pills here. And yes, most come in bottles. But some do come in blister packs.
OTC? Small-volume packs are blister packs, but larger quantities come in bottles. Prescriptions? Some drugs come in pre-measured amounts in blister packs, but if you’re getting things dispensed from a pharmacy they usually are in large bottles and the pharmacist counts out the amount prescribed, so they come in small bottles with the personalized label with your name, doctor, pharmacy, and the prescription info/number on it.
OTC Medications: Pain killers like acetaminophen, aspirin, and ibuprofen almost exclusively come in bottles. Heartburn, and Cold and Allergy medication is usually blister packed when it’s lower quantity packaging and sometimes bottles when it’s larger amounts.
Prescription Medications: usually in bottles, but sometimes blister packed.
If it comes in small quantities (like 25) and it’s OTC, it’ll come in a blister pack. Most RX meds come in a bottle. The medical facility I work at only gets blister packs & while it’s so annoying, it saves space in the med cart.
This is so weird…..there was another question almost exactly like this one a few days ago. Did you ask this before?
I work in health care and all our meds come in blister packs. Over the counter comes in blister packs and bottles. Same with prescriptions.
Prescriptions come in bottles almost all the time.
Over-the-counter medication (which a pharmacist does not have to distribute) can sometimes come in bottles. Medication that’s most commonly found in bottles are usually in large quantities (where we can buy 50-100 or more). Smaller quantities, or smaller pills, are usually sold in blister packs.
People are going to be mad about the answer to this question but our number one cause of suicide is guns. There is no point in eliminating the others, like access to large quantities of pills quickly and efficiently, if we aren’t going to deal with guns. And we aren’t. That’s why you have them in blister packs and we don’t.
That’s how I get my prescriptions. I have a big ass bottle of lamotrigine because they’ve decided to just give me all 90 days at once instead of 3 sets of 30 days every month because the prescription needs to be renewed every 90 days
Ugh. How annoying. I have a friend with Cerebral Palsy and he absolutely has meds he has to take, there is no way he would be able to open blister packs. It’s already difficult enough for him to open bottles on his own. When I visit him I open his bottles for him and then he keeps them open so he can access his meds without difficulty.
Yes, pills in bottles are still common.
Tablets, whether prescription medications or some sort of dietary supplement, will normally come in a bottle of some sort.
Some prescriptions, such as corticosteroids, will often come in a blister pack, as well some over the counter medicines such as some cold/flu/allergy meds.
Bottles are definitely the most common, though.
All of my medication is in an amber bottle.
Yes, all my medication comes in a bottle. Same goes for my wife. No blister packs.
Why would they just do that only in fiction?
Yep, pretty common. Most medicine is sold in large quantities, with only a few exceptions like some allergy medications being sold in lower count blister packs, or “travel packs” of medicine that are usually sold in gas stations or convenience stores.
Yes they come in bottles, why is this asked all the time?
The hospitals my parents were in all used blister packs, much easier for inventory. Only place I’ve seen them.
Yes. Those blister packs are annoying AF.
all my prescriptions are in bottles-I won’t do blister packs because of the waste of materials.
Yes.
They’re in blister packs in Europe because it’s annoying to pop them out and apparently that would decrease suicide by overdose by making it harder and more annoying to get a bunch of pills out at once
All my meds are in plastic bottles.
“Over the counter” or non-prescription medicine is so different. I remember when I lived in Hungary getting acetaminophen or ibuprofen was a trip to pharmacy and describing issues then being allowed to buy like 20 pills. Here I go to Costco and buy 1200 pills at a time and it lasts a couple of years. My landlord had me buy for him on a trip home so he could save hassle for his daily baby aspirin regiment. Which I am on now and buy 800 a time which is more than 2 years.
95% of the time, yes.
Both are fairly common.
American here, I don’t take a lot of medication but when I do it’s almost always in a bottle.
You mean medicine in pill bottles? Yeah we got them
Over-the-counter (non-prescription) medications like ibuprofen will typically come in blister packs for small quantities (up to 40 or so) and in bottles for large quantities (50+)
Prescription drugs usually come in little orange bottles with white safety caps, even in small quantities.
Occasionally I’ve seen pharmacists cut off parts of a blister pack and shove them in a bottle when it’s only a few pills lol
Tablets? Like an iPad?
We call them pills.
And yes. We certainly do. We also have them in individual dose packages but that’s generally for smaller amounts of medication.
I take a medication for my heart that’s two pills twice a day, so total 4 pills every day. I can’t imagine getting a 3-month supply from the pharmacy consisting of 360 individually packaged pills. That seems like a huge hassle and not very environmentally friendly.
We also don’t really have a problem with people using over-the-counter drugs to commit suicide. I understand that was a big part of the move to individual doses and generally smaller amounts being sold in the UK and Europe.
This seems so wasteful. My bottles are recyclable but I’ll bet the blister paks aren’t.
I’ve got so many bottles.
Yes. Blister packs drive me crazy.
I hated my meds in blister packs while living outside of the US. A 90 day supply of my BP meds was 4 boxes, because they come in packs of 28. I was prescribed a week of antibiotics, but they come in a pack of 14, so I had to deal with the leftover 7 pills.
All of my medications are in bottles.
everything in hospital is a blister pack unless sent up individually by pharmacy. but my at home med cabinet is all bottles aside from one or two meds
tabs are usually blisters and capsules usually individually sent up by pharmacy
we get some easy open “blister esque” packs for things like melatonin, but getting an oxy out a blister pack is hell on earth
Blister packs sound like it creates a lot of plastic waste. More than a bottle.
Blister packs are not uncommon in America, but they are less common than bottles. Most medication comes in bottles. Virtually all prescription medication comes in bottles.
wow this took an exceptionally long time for me to get my brain to figure this question out! My imagination first put a flat small computer screen in a bottle – like -WHAT? And then on to water purification tablets. finally, after a humiliatingly long time I figured this out. Yes, we still get tablets in bottles.
I would say blister packs are pretty uncommon in the US. They generally are only there for very small amounts of medication.
Blister packs are so annoying
We get both, depends on the medication. I prefer bottle
Didn’t we just have an identical question here?
Some are, some aren’t. I’m currently taking some prednisone and they came in a bottle.
Retail pharmacist here. Yes, the vast majority of tablets and capsules are counted and put in vials. Unless we’re lucky and the prescription calls for the exact package size and we can just label that. Blister packs and unit doses are fairly uncommon, because they’re both a pain for patients and us and rarely covered by insurance.
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It depends on what the medicine is and who the manufacturer is.
I’ve seen Benadryl in both bottles and blister packs. I’ve also seen NyQuil in both form.
I buy tablets at Costco in jars that basically rival spaghetti sauce.
Most prescriptions come in a bottle here with loose pills. The only times I’ve seen medicine in a blister pack is if it’s a steroid or antibiotic. Some over the counter medications like allergy pills, anti acids, or cold medicines are in blister packs too
It varies on the medication. I’ve got an economy bottle of 1000 Ibuprofen that’s…a bottle.
Then I got 12 hour decongestant and it’s 12 pills in blisters.
Yes. Extremely common.
Yes. After traveling overseas a lot and not being able to find or buy OTC meds that are very very common for us, I now travel with my “travel pharmacy” of everything I could think of possibly needing. Trying to buy regular Tylenol, allergy pills, or actual cold medicine in different countries is like… Well they act like I don’t know what I need, won’t sell me anything with actual medicine in it without a pharmacist, and act like I’m some junkie looking for… Zyrtec? Right… Because my puffed up face full of snot screams that I’m a junkie looking for a fix and not someone who is allergic to whatever tree splooge is currently infesting the air.
Some things do come in blister packs though, but they can still be bought without issue most of the time. I think the only thing that isn’t prescription they give you a hard time about is pseudoephedrine.
You’d think with the EU being more concerned about the environment they would be the ones to use pill bottles instead of the incredibly wasteful blister packs.
Yes in childproof bottles
Bottles, most of which are plastic
This question is hardly ever asked. /s
Most prescriptions I get are in translucent bottles. Malarone is an exception
I didn’t realize it was uncommon anywhere
I actually buy meds in the US and bring overseas with me bc I can’t stand the blister packs! So much waste and messy storage with all the boxes or lookalike sheets of tablets.
Almost always, yes. Some OTC pills come in boxes with blister packs inside, but prescriptions from the pharmacy are almost always in those amber (or sometimes green) bottles.
Brit in the US: Paracetamol and ibuprofen definitely still come in bottles, as does all prescription medication,. Blister packs are common for cold and flu medication.
My parents when they come to visit, they often take home a 100 pill bottle of paracetamol, or other painkiller
Yes. Almost all of my prescriptions have come in plastic bottles.
I’m so confused didn’t we have this question like 2 days ago?
Yeah. Probably 80% of my meds from the pharmacy and most everything over the counter comes in bottles.
Yes, all of my prescriptions come in bottles. Blister packs are a pain in the neck. I avoid them whenever possible in over the counter meds. I swear the worst ones need scissors every time.
Yes, all my prescriptions come in bottles. I have some over the counter medications that come in blister packs. I think I’ve only ever gotten one prescription that came in a blister pack.
All of my vitamins and prescription meds are in bottles. Last time I was sick, I had some cold medicine in a blister pack in a cardboard package.
Yes.
Im ngl man, I read this and was so confused about people getting tablets in bottles.
“What? Wtf , an IPad in a bottle? Does Apple do that?”
I do
Australia uses blisters packs for nearly everything. All I want is my giant bottle of Advil.
Our tablets usually come in come in cardboard boxes with pictures of the device on it and specifications. If you mean medication, it comes in a variety of ways. I personally get some of my medication in blister packs,glass vials and plastic bottles.