Inadequacies in infant and young children's medicines and their packaging

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In recent years, the safety and human needs of children's drug packaging design have received more and more attention, but the exploration of infant drug use and drug packaging is relatively rare. 0 to 3 years old is a period of infants and young children. Physiologically, infants and young children have weak immunity, and taking medicine for illness is a common occurrence; psychologically, infants and young children cannot understand that they need to take medicine when they are sick. Therefore, for infants and young children, feeding medicine becomes an important task when infants and young children are sick. Therefore, how to reduce the burden of parental medication and the pain of infants and young children from the perspective of pharmaceutical packaging has become an important issue at present.

Inadequacies in infant medicines and packaging

1. Tablets, granules and powdered medicaments

When using tablets, the dosage is usually 1/3 or 1/4. However, it is often difficult for parents to divide the tablets evenly into several equal parts. After the tablets are separated, they must be ground into powder and mixed with water. Then use The spoon is fed, the process is too complicated.

Granules and powdered medicaments are more convenient than tablets, but there is still a problem that it is necessary to take a pack of medicaments several times. It is inevitably uneven during dispensing, and it also needs to be mixed with water. Some powders are not completely soluble in water and will sink. At the bottom of the spoon, the infant can not be completely taken while taking the medicine, thus affecting the therapeutic effect.

In addition, in order to meet the taste needs of infants and young children, there will be a layer of sugar coating on the surface of the medicine, and the color is very bright, which is easy to cause curiosity of infants and young children. The medicine packaging is generally in bags, and it takes several times to completely take the medicines inside. When parents are busy dispensing medicines, they are slightly inadvertent, and infants and young children are likely to eat the medicines in the opened packaging, which is life-threatening.

2. Liquid medicament

Compared with tablets, granules and powdered medicaments, liquid medicines are much more convenient to take, and can be directly fed with a small spoon. Nowadays, liquid pharmaceutical packages are usually provided with scales, which can be grasped more in terms of dosage. Accurate, there are some problems in the measurement, many times can not be accurate at one time, the amount can only be dumped of excess medicine, resulting in waste, the amount of feeding is increased. In response to this, some liquid pharmaceutical packaging has been improved, and a small dropper with a functional combination is provided with the pharmaceutical packaging. This type of dropper can not only accurately measure the medicament, but also can be directly put into the mouth of the infant for feeding, but there are still the following three problems.

(1) After each feeding, the drip tube needs to be washed, dried, and collected to prevent contamination of the drug at the next measurement. This increases the feeding procedure. When the hands are not enough, the parents often forget to wash the dripper and dry it because they need to calm the infant's mood, or do not place the dropper in a suitable place, resulting in a dropper. Cannot be used again.

(2) Some infants and young children over 6 months have started to have long teeth. When feeding with a dropper, infants and young children are likely to bite the dropper, and the dropper is soft and may be bitten by the infant. There are hidden dangers in use.

(3) After the infant's mobility is enhanced, the dropper may be used for play or litter after the medicine is finished, resulting in the inability of the dropper to continue to be used.

The above content is selected from the November issue of “Printing Technology·Packaging and Decoration” of the Ink Media. For more journal content, please pay attention to the journal channel.


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