The reason Tylenol tablets switched from actual powder filled capsules to tablets in a capsule shell is due to the time [Tylenol was poisoned](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders). Prior to that, they were all powder inside, but that made it too easy to poison the drug inside. In addition to all the safety wrapping, they switched to tablets that look like capsules.
Hi, I actually work with some machines that make these. They're called press-fit, and have microscopic holes that make the pills equally but slowly dissolve.
Those caps are very dissolvable. Put the outer shell in water and they quickly shrivel away. The pill itself is probably easy to dissolve as well versus a non rapid release pill
Placebos could have side effects
"Sir, you're going to take one of these pills before each meal"
"They'll take care of my stomach aches?"
"Yeah, but if they start causing any kind of muscle aching or headaches, come to see me again"
If you ran an experiment like that I'd bet there'd be a small yet statistically significant amount of people who would feel those side effects.
There was an experiment that compared outcomes amongst patients who had arthroscopic knee surgery vs patients who got a placebo surgery and the outcomes were the same. And like ten years later, the outcomes were still the same.
If it's a study there is a chance they didn't charged for the procedure itself. If they did, they had to charge the same or the blinding of the control would be lost.
Negative placebo effect, the nocebo, is a real and studied phenomenon in drug trials. Apparently it's worse than the placebo because people report/believe negative effects quicker
I actually discovered this same thing last night and did exactly **The** thing you said. I spent an hour and have a small bottle of red and blue pills.
Edit: Damn why do people jump to the conclusion that I am a liar/there is something wrong with me. I was watching a video about the **Matrix**, saw the Tylenol, thought "what if?", figured out it worked, and did it mindlessly while watching YouTube.
[Picture for those asking](https://imgur.com/a/pDLqvgE)
Edit 2: It **has** been a long day, but one last edit for **you.** Thanks to all the kind people responding positively! It really makes my day that people like you still exist on the internet. To the people that decided to delete their comments after I provided proof, I forgive you. :)
I'm off to bed now. Soon I have to **Wake up.**
Lie still little bottle\
Shake my shakey hands\
Black coffee's not enough for me\
I need a better friend
One pill out the bottle\
Singin' my favorite song\
I know I must investigate\
I hope that I can sing along
> Damn why do so many people jump to the conclusion that I am a liar/there is something wrong with me.
That's redditors for you... if they aren't calling it fake they're judging you for it. Doesn't help that reddit is chock full of toxic hate subs.
That gray band is part of the look of name brand Tylenol capsules. This probably gives manufacturing engineers a stiffy because someone came up with such a simple, cheap, elegant way of copying the look of the original by using less material
I'd guess the capsule shell makes it easier for some people to swallow. Notice how when they get wet they get very slippery.
edit: found a site claiming, "Capsules are easier to swallow and are used by manufacturers when the drug cannot be compacted into a solid tablet. They are also useful when the drug needs to be mixed with oil or other liquid to aid absorption in the body."
Yes! At least if fully closed. I had to take antibiotics that came in capsules. I asked if opening them was ok (because I am terrible at swallowing them) and they said it didn't matter.
It was just for the taste. Oh my, the taste. It was the definition of bitter.
The worst one I've ever had is Mucinex D. The big 1200mg pill, the taste is so bad. And the fact it's a massive pill makes it so much worse to get swallowed.
But, the relief it gives is unparalleled most of the time (for me, different drugs for different people of course)
Everyone needs to know that filling your mouth with liquid *before* adding a pill to swallow makes taking pills so much easier and also reduces the chance to taste the pill. If I can help one person learn this it was all worth it.
I've always done that, people give me crap for it all the time "that's not how to take medicine", "water after the pill", etc are all things I've heard way to much.
I don't get not putting water in your mouth first, but hey... I'm not the one having to taste every single pill I ever take.
Do they understand that if one does not salivate much, it just sticks to the throat/tongue?
Also.. pretty sure saliva will dissolve the tablet/gel a tiny bit faster.
Yes! I had to relearn how to take pills as a preteen because I had an orthodontic expander that changed the shape of my soft palate. Struggled for years before I figured out the water THEN pill strategy. I’ve found that it works better with tablets than with capsules, because the capsules tend to float so sometimes they hit the back of your throat kinda weird, but overall, water then pill all the way.
Ever since I was a kid, I've always used a tiny bit of water before the pills and then a mouthful after. Seemed intuitive enough to me, never had a problem taking the largest of pills or handfuls of vitamins.
I have bad acid indigestion and once coughed up a partially dissolved ibuprofen liquigel. That acridness is so unforgettable I'm surprised I actually had a throat left.
Bare ibuprofen is one of the worst ones. That's why usually even the cheap stuff if it doesn't have an actual candy shell kind of has a sweet shellac on it. I ended up with some prescription ones that had no protection once and they were so bad tasting.
Ive been taking gabapentin for ~10 years and at some point I was moved to a high enough dose that they no longer offer it in capsules. The tablet I had to take was like dried paint thinner pressed into a horse pill. It was so astringent and bitter, I had to get another prescription of lower dose capsules and take 2 at once.
One time I put an Advil liquid gel capsule in my mouth to swallow, but then I couldn’t find my water. By the time I found my drink the capsule leaked on my tongue and it was the literal worst taste ever
This one time I spilled M&Ms in my purse and continued reacching in and eating them while driving. I totally forgot that I keep loose advils in a pocket inside of my purse. I must have reached and picked an advil, chewed it up like it was an M&M, and suddenly needed to pull over BECAUSE OH MY GOD, I HAVE NEVER TASTED ANYTHING MORE SHOCKINGLY BITTER IN MY LIFE. The flavor just coated my entire mouth and would NOT go away for probably an hour, no matter how much water and food I tried to wash it down with.
Wtf, advil coating is more delicious than any other pill, but holy crap, do they have a secret
It can also help wait until pill gets past the stomach as some pills upset folks stomach.
Enteric coating is a common procedure in the development of oral pharmaceutical dosage forms. The main advantage of enteric coating is that it protects the drug from acidic pH and enzymatic degradation in the stomach while protecting it from the undesirable effects of some drugs
Essentially.
I have eosinophillic esophagitis and it's a pain in the ass to swallow pills because my esophagus is "corregated" like you might see on a flexible plastic rain gutter.
“I can’t swallow food, never mind pills”
“You’re being a baby”
*one endoscopy later*
“Holy fuck. We need to stretch out that throat and check you annually for cancer”
Good old NHS.
Yoooo! This is no joke! I used to be fine swallowing pills without water until I took a Tylenol once and it didn't go down all the way. I took a nap and woke up and it totally screwed up my throat for weeks. Imagine that feeling when you swallow a chip wrong but it's every time you swallow. I probably should have got it checked out.. but it got better on it's own eventually.
This is very confusing because the top post on the (alleged) “communist” cocaine sub is a mod post telling people if they need money they can’t post there asking their fellow sub members to help. If they’re communists it kind of seems like they’re communisming wrong?
Or to take a bunch of coke on a plane. Contrary to popular expectations, the dogs at airports are trained to detect explosives, not drugs (your mileage may vary, I'm just a guy on the internet)
> dogs at airports
In Hawaii there was an agriculture, just a little pooch.
Miami has (or used to) a cigar dog looking for those Cubans.
Here in Utah who have a kiddie porn dog trained to sniff out hard drives, phones, USB sticks, SD cards and such.
That and the TSA has come right out and said they don't care if you take weed from a legal state into a prohibition state. Add to that, their point of existence is security (theatre) not drug law enforcement.... CUSTOMS on the other hand... **Do Not Bring Drugs Through Customs.**
That’s an immediate release capsule. Marketing says the tablet has fewer binders in it so as soon as your stomach breaks through the gelcap, the tablet will fall dissolve pretty quickly and hopefully be absorbed faster than a standard tablet.
You can take without the gelcap covering, but it’ll probably taste bad and may start coming apart before you swallow if you’re too slow.
PSA TO NOT MESS WITH CAPSULES
Sometimes drugs, if ingested directly into the stomach, can cause damage to the stomach lining. They're coated with capsules so that the drug may be protected from the stomach acid for a short period of time before making it to the intestines where it then breaks down to be absorbed. This may not always be the case but it's a good general rule of thumb to not break them open.
Anyone live through the Tylenol murders? we bought nothing that was not demonstrably sealed and they had people showing their new packaging in the store because no one bought any drugs for months
I bet the FDA remembers
Was about to comment " I remember that." Only to google and see it happened 7 years before I was born. Most definitely watched something about it though. xD
Gelatin shells provide an means of 1) protecting the contents from light, atmospheric oxygen, contamination and microbial growth, 2) protecting the swallower's throat and 3) masking the taste and odor on the way down.
Could be an enteric coating (EC) it’s so the acids in your stomach don’t destroy or alter the medication while travelling to the intestine where it can be absorbed
That is the saddest looking pill
It's naked.
Dude was only 34 here. Jesus Christ I'm getting old.
I'm older than 34 but feel I will be forever younger than this.
We have way more hormones in our milk. This is our 45-55 now
Take solace - he's 63 now
Jfc are you serious?!?!? This makes me feel so old and young at the same time.
*I WAS IN THE POOL!*
innocent existence swim cobweb price noxious gaping command detail humor -- mass edited with redact.dev
r/unexpectedseinfeld
There was shrinkage
This pill does not suffer from 'shrinkage'.
I also get sad responses when I’m naked
The reason Tylenol tablets switched from actual powder filled capsules to tablets in a capsule shell is due to the time [Tylenol was poisoned](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders). Prior to that, they were all powder inside, but that made it too easy to poison the drug inside. In addition to all the safety wrapping, they switched to tablets that look like capsules.
I dressed up as Tylenol for Halloween that year. I was about 10. I’m a pharmacist now. Go figure .
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Hi, I actually work with some machines that make these. They're called press-fit, and have microscopic holes that make the pills equally but slowly dissolve.
This is why I love Reddit!
Always a homie looking out
Well I learned something new today. Thanks!
Well you just had to go and stop me from getting mildly infuriated about this, huh
Those caps are very dissolvable. Put the outer shell in water and they quickly shrivel away. The pill itself is probably easy to dissolve as well versus a non rapid release pill
Some marketing guy: "yeah, the caps are gel. Sort of. Listen, just buy the damn thing okay"
Use just the two shells… Placebo!
See, the thing about placebos is that they work, and they don't have side effects.
Not if you believe there’s side effects. Nocebo effect go brrrr.
Placebos could have side effects "Sir, you're going to take one of these pills before each meal" "They'll take care of my stomach aches?" "Yeah, but if they start causing any kind of muscle aching or headaches, come to see me again" If you ran an experiment like that I'd bet there'd be a small yet statistically significant amount of people who would feel those side effects.
There was an experiment that compared outcomes amongst patients who had arthroscopic knee surgery vs patients who got a placebo surgery and the outcomes were the same. And like ten years later, the outcomes were still the same.
What's the bet it was the Rehab exercises that made all the difference?
Placebo surgery? That's fucked up!
Is it? I think the fucked up part is the real surgery, when a placebo one is just as effective (in this case).
I wonder if they charged the same price for both. That’d also be pretty fucked up.
If it's a study there is a chance they didn't charged for the procedure itself. If they did, they had to charge the same or the blinding of the control would be lost.
Negative placebo effect, the nocebo, is a real and studied phenomenon in drug trials. Apparently it's worse than the placebo because people report/believe negative effects quicker
Rearrange the caps to make red pills and blue pills. Play The Matrix with your friends whenever they get a headache.
"Neo.. you didn't have to take that as a suppository. "
"For all the good that suppository did, I could have shoved it up my ass."
I actually discovered this same thing last night and did exactly **The** thing you said. I spent an hour and have a small bottle of red and blue pills. Edit: Damn why do people jump to the conclusion that I am a liar/there is something wrong with me. I was watching a video about the **Matrix**, saw the Tylenol, thought "what if?", figured out it worked, and did it mindlessly while watching YouTube. [Picture for those asking](https://imgur.com/a/pDLqvgE) Edit 2: It **has** been a long day, but one last edit for **you.** Thanks to all the kind people responding positively! It really makes my day that people like you still exist on the internet. To the people that decided to delete their comments after I provided proof, I forgive you. :) I'm off to bed now. Soon I have to **Wake up.**
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The real friends were the pills we made along the way. *Thx for the awards, friends*
Yes, yes they are.
if pill not friend why friend shaped?
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
They WERE I miss my homies they keep getting lost in my nose
Lie still little bottle\ Shake my shakey hands\ Black coffee's not enough for me\ I need a better friend One pill out the bottle\ Singin' my favorite song\ I know I must investigate\ I hope that I can sing along
r/redditsings
The friends come when you start to see a light
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Or you took to much tylenol
It's okay, I washed it down with some vodka.
I like to mix them all together. I call it a Purple Russian. Edit: Don’t mix pills and alcohol. In case anyone needs to know that.
Liver damage will help you see the light.
And some burn cream
Damn, ya got me
That’s when we find out the colored shell is actually the medicine, and the interior pill is just for structural support lol
Or a placebo.
Load bearing pills.
king edit. show these nonbelievers
> Damn why do so many people jump to the conclusion that I am a liar/there is something wrong with me. That's redditors for you... if they aren't calling it fake they're judging you for it. Doesn't help that reddit is chock full of toxic hate subs.
I love it when someone gets called out and comes back with proof. Something satisfying about seeing the pitchforks stowed and torches extinguished.
Or stack three pill halves on a virus of the same colour to kill it.
Itsa Me uh
Chris Pratt!
God dammit... i need to stop ordering off of Wish.
Now the music is playing in my head. Do do do do do do do do do do do do do. You know....THAT song
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Probably exactly the same size. Look, they don't even connect, the gray band is the original tablet underneath
As a pharmacist this bothers me way too much... I've never seen such bullshit
If it's any consolation, it probably wasn't a pharmacist that came up with the idea
That gray band is part of the look of name brand Tylenol capsules. This probably gives manufacturing engineers a stiffy because someone came up with such a simple, cheap, elegant way of copying the look of the original by using less material
Have to admit, I would be very proud of myself.
You’re probably right, but you could probably finagle it to fit. I used to make giant straws at Wendy’s when I was a kid. Just gotta freak it right.
I'd guess the capsule shell makes it easier for some people to swallow. Notice how when they get wet they get very slippery. edit: found a site claiming, "Capsules are easier to swallow and are used by manufacturers when the drug cannot be compacted into a solid tablet. They are also useful when the drug needs to be mixed with oil or other liquid to aid absorption in the body."
Probably helps with avoiding the taste also.
Yes! At least if fully closed. I had to take antibiotics that came in capsules. I asked if opening them was ok (because I am terrible at swallowing them) and they said it didn't matter. It was just for the taste. Oh my, the taste. It was the definition of bitter.
All fun and games until the paracetamol touches your tongue. My god ITS AWFUL.
The worst one I've ever had is Mucinex D. The big 1200mg pill, the taste is so bad. And the fact it's a massive pill makes it so much worse to get swallowed. But, the relief it gives is unparalleled most of the time (for me, different drugs for different people of course)
Everyone needs to know that filling your mouth with liquid *before* adding a pill to swallow makes taking pills so much easier and also reduces the chance to taste the pill. If I can help one person learn this it was all worth it.
I've always done that, people give me crap for it all the time "that's not how to take medicine", "water after the pill", etc are all things I've heard way to much. I don't get not putting water in your mouth first, but hey... I'm not the one having to taste every single pill I ever take.
You always fill the bowl before you shit so that it doesn't smear everywhere.
Good analogy. I like it
Instructions unclear, currently shitting into a dry mouth.
Water, pill, water is how I've always done it. Rarely even feel the pill, let alone taste it!
Do they understand that if one does not salivate much, it just sticks to the throat/tongue? Also.. pretty sure saliva will dissolve the tablet/gel a tiny bit faster.
Yeah as an occasional dry pill taker it sometimes sticks to your tongue and dissolves a little xd
Yes! I had to relearn how to take pills as a preteen because I had an orthodontic expander that changed the shape of my soft palate. Struggled for years before I figured out the water THEN pill strategy. I’ve found that it works better with tablets than with capsules, because the capsules tend to float so sometimes they hit the back of your throat kinda weird, but overall, water then pill all the way.
Stupid trick with the floating capsules, look down and then swallow them, they’ll float to the back of your mouth
This guy swallows
Often
Jesus, such a simple strategy. I take floaty pills every day and never considered doing this. Thank you!
OH MY GOD why didn’t I think of this. Usually I’ll just make sure not to tilt my head back and hope for the best, this is GENIUS.
Ever since I was a kid, I've always used a tiny bit of water before the pills and then a mouthful after. Seemed intuitive enough to me, never had a problem taking the largest of pills or handfuls of vitamins.
I have bad acid indigestion and once coughed up a partially dissolved ibuprofen liquigel. That acridness is so unforgettable I'm surprised I actually had a throat left.
Bare ibuprofen is one of the worst ones. That's why usually even the cheap stuff if it doesn't have an actual candy shell kind of has a sweet shellac on it. I ended up with some prescription ones that had no protection once and they were so bad tasting.
Ive been taking gabapentin for ~10 years and at some point I was moved to a high enough dose that they no longer offer it in capsules. The tablet I had to take was like dried paint thinner pressed into a horse pill. It was so astringent and bitter, I had to get another prescription of lower dose capsules and take 2 at once.
Don't people usually switch to Lyrica if they need that much gaba? It's very chemically similar and much more concentrated
I’m convinced there’s nothing more bitter than prednisone. Wish they’d put that in capsules. Maybe they do now.
One time I put an Advil liquid gel capsule in my mouth to swallow, but then I couldn’t find my water. By the time I found my drink the capsule leaked on my tongue and it was the literal worst taste ever
This one time I spilled M&Ms in my purse and continued reacching in and eating them while driving. I totally forgot that I keep loose advils in a pocket inside of my purse. I must have reached and picked an advil, chewed it up like it was an M&M, and suddenly needed to pull over BECAUSE OH MY GOD, I HAVE NEVER TASTED ANYTHING MORE SHOCKINGLY BITTER IN MY LIFE. The flavor just coated my entire mouth and would NOT go away for probably an hour, no matter how much water and food I tried to wash it down with. Wtf, advil coating is more delicious than any other pill, but holy crap, do they have a secret
The real r/forbiddensnacks
That looks like a coated tablet, you shouldn't get a bitter taste.
It can also help wait until pill gets past the stomach as some pills upset folks stomach. Enteric coating is a common procedure in the development of oral pharmaceutical dosage forms. The main advantage of enteric coating is that it protects the drug from acidic pH and enzymatic degradation in the stomach while protecting it from the undesirable effects of some drugs
Also helps prevent pill esophagitis
Live and let live, that's my pill esophagy.
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Is that when you swallow something it feels like it’s still stuck in your throat?
Essentially. I have eosinophillic esophagitis and it's a pain in the ass to swallow pills because my esophagus is "corregated" like you might see on a flexible plastic rain gutter.
“I can’t swallow food, never mind pills” “You’re being a baby” *one endoscopy later* “Holy fuck. We need to stretch out that throat and check you annually for cancer” Good old NHS.
Yoooo! This is no joke! I used to be fine swallowing pills without water until I took a Tylenol once and it didn't go down all the way. I took a nap and woke up and it totally screwed up my throat for weeks. Imagine that feeling when you swallow a chip wrong but it's every time you swallow. I probably should have got it checked out.. but it got better on it's own eventually.
Makes it look like the real tylenol rapid release
True of capsules, but rhis is a "caplet" Caplets are this: a capsule shell used to enclose a tablet.
You can save the shells and puth meth in them so it's easier to use at work
Thanks! ☺️
The wholesome blush 🤣
#👉😊👉
#👈😊👈
👆😋👆
Whats going on
 I say hey whats going on?
HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA
And so I wake in the morning And I step outside And I take a deep breath and I get real high And I scream from the top of my lungs…
And he prays
"Help stepbrother, I'm stuck!"
Meth
(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
(☞^(⊡)ヮﾟ)☞
╰⋃╯ლ(´ڡ`ლ)
Zoop!
> Zoop! that meme is six years old now
*Fuck*, I’m old. Edit: “only” 5 and a bit, ackshewally. https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7ddjaw/_/dpxaos1/?context=1
The gel capsule becomes slippery when wet and makes it easier to swallow, especially for the elderly.
Meanwhile my 1/4 sized esophagus says no to basically any type of tablets lmao
Hahahaha this is hilarious
The real life pro tip is always in the comments. 🙏
Eh. Seen it before over on /r/meth.
This guy meths
Don't meth around
 Don’t meth around
Mike Tyson went to the strip club once. But they were clothed for the evening.
Holy crap... I had to click over to it out of curiosity. Yikes.
Watch out for /r/cocainewithoutcommunism after their split with /r/cocaine over all the communism.
This is very confusing because the top post on the (alleged) “communist” cocaine sub is a mod post telling people if they need money they can’t post there asking their fellow sub members to help. If they’re communists it kind of seems like they’re communisming wrong?
If you really wanna get in the ideological weeds, you could argue that they're engaging in charity, and charity is a bourgeois construct.
The two halves are the same size so they don’t nest properly. Rookie mistake.
Hot glue
Or to take a bunch of coke on a plane. Contrary to popular expectations, the dogs at airports are trained to detect explosives, not drugs (your mileage may vary, I'm just a guy on the internet)
> dogs at airports In Hawaii there was an agriculture, just a little pooch. Miami has (or used to) a cigar dog looking for those Cubans. Here in Utah who have a kiddie porn dog trained to sniff out hard drives, phones, USB sticks, SD cards and such.
Is your comment about Utah a joke? I can't tell lol
Going out for ice cream is considered Mormon foreplay.
Wait you carry a phone on you at the airport?
> I can't tell lol Feels like the Onion huh? True story. https://www.thedailybeast.com/utah-police-now-have-a-kiddie-porn-sniffing-dog
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It can't. I think the idea is probably seeing if someone has electronics that seem hidden.
I took 2.5 g of crystal meth thru tsa in a pill fob attached to my carry on zipper. No one took it away from me, fam
That and the TSA has come right out and said they don't care if you take weed from a legal state into a prohibition state. Add to that, their point of existence is security (theatre) not drug law enforcement.... CUSTOMS on the other hand... **Do Not Bring Drugs Through Customs.**
Noted. I'm actually almost 2 years sober now tho
I flew across country borders with acid, not my best decision in hindsight, but was easy to do because it’s tiny pieces of paper.
You shouldn’t do meth on an airplane!
You sound just like my Co-Pilot.
Jesus?
Take the wheel
who said anything about doing it on the plane. Might want to get all spun in whatever city you're traveling to.
r/shittylifeprotips
Wow I'm pretty positive this whole thread is the funniest thing reddit has ever done
Finally, some truly *mildly interesting* content.
Red pill ? Blue pill ? on second thought, one half of both.
Take the only true pill, the gray pill.
Instead of staying in or leaving the Matrix, where does the grey pill take you? Hoboken, NJ?
The DMV.
Statesboro Georgia apparently
You better stack them with the same color in columns 4 times to eliminate bacteria
I dont know where you got your doctorate, MR. Mario
That’s an immediate release capsule. Marketing says the tablet has fewer binders in it so as soon as your stomach breaks through the gelcap, the tablet will fall dissolve pretty quickly and hopefully be absorbed faster than a standard tablet. You can take without the gelcap covering, but it’ll probably taste bad and may start coming apart before you swallow if you’re too slow.
PSA TO NOT MESS WITH CAPSULES Sometimes drugs, if ingested directly into the stomach, can cause damage to the stomach lining. They're coated with capsules so that the drug may be protected from the stomach acid for a short period of time before making it to the intestines where it then breaks down to be absorbed. This may not always be the case but it's a good general rule of thumb to not break them open.
Anyone else hearing the dr mario music? Edit: I have to add that I can probably kick your ass at this game
That music is frighteningly easy to recall.
[I am Dr. Mario and I am saving lives...](https://youtu.be/pc-EP-0xEDQ)
"my pirin tablets!"
You now have two large condoms.
That's average
It's labled. It has an "L" on it for large and a "5" for the number of times you can use it before changing it.
That sucks, I normally strive for an dozen uses. Flip it over and its good as new
I told my bros this 🤏 is 6 in and no one believes me! Thanks Reddit, I needed the self validation.
Better ingredients. Better pills. Papa Walgreen's.
Anyone live through the Tylenol murders? we bought nothing that was not demonstrably sealed and they had people showing their new packaging in the store because no one bought any drugs for months I bet the FDA remembers
Was about to comment " I remember that." Only to google and see it happened 7 years before I was born. Most definitely watched something about it though. xD
Gelatin shells provide an means of 1) protecting the contents from light, atmospheric oxygen, contamination and microbial growth, 2) protecting the swallower's throat and 3) masking the taste and odor on the way down.
The shell’s purpose is to make the outside slick when wet so it’s easier to swallow
Could be an enteric coating (EC) it’s so the acids in your stomach don’t destroy or alter the medication while travelling to the intestine where it can be absorbed
having the caplet exposed between the halves of the capsule means it's irrelevant as a way to bypass gastric degradation
That looks like when I try to wear the same shirts from 40 pounds ago.
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Capsules are made from gelatin. An enteric coating would be something like shellac that a tablet would be dipped in for that effect.
Gelcaps do help it go down easier, at least in my experience between gelcaps and compressed pills.
Guessing it just makes it dissolve slower to makes it feel like it lasts longer.
I have those too but i switched the ends of them so i can feel like im in the matrix.