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03 Feb 2024 19:23

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Bitter pills may be, but better-rainbow pills for ills

Kindly look at the attached picture. They are one dose of medicinal tablets given to me by an allopathic physician in a Mumbai suburb. I was suffering from a seasonal cold and cough.
I have never seen tablets of such varied shapes and colour given by any other doctor to me. Occasionally I had come across a coloured tablet or a tablet not exactly round. But not this much quantum in a single dose.

I want to highlight that, even on earlier occasions also the same doctor had given me similar tablets. Maybe my problem was the same and so was the same cure. But another interesting observation I got was that on the follow-up visit, he gave the same medicines in the same shapes but now in different colours.

Though I am slightly amused about this, I also want to state that I got relief or cure by his (these)medicines.

I would like readers to give their observations and opinions in this regard and also of any similar experience they had.

#776715

03 Feb 2024 19:35

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I have also noticed the point raised by the author. When I casually asked my doctor friend, she told me that the different shapes and colors are given for the identification from the patients point of view in order to avoid confusion. Besides there are some boxes with alarm for taking medicines by time by time. However it is better to keep ourselves with alert in taking medicines in time.
Till we are prescribed with medicine by any doctor, we can act casually but once we are allotted with medicines we should never escape or post pone from taking medicines. It is better to keep ourselves alert in the medicines rather than assistance from others.

#776716

03 Feb 2024 19:44

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Yes. We see different shapes and colours of tablets. The colours may vary due to the flavours they add. We getting cough drops in different colours.
I use very frequently a tablet called unienzyme for digestion. The same product comes as a tablet and as a capsule. Some doctors write capsules and some may prescribe tablets.
We use some anti-gassing tablets early tn the morning. These tablets also come in different shapes but the active ingredient in all of them is the same. Different pharma companies use different formats. The machinery they use for making the tables will be the same but the dies they use are of different shapes. In our company, we were making Pyrotechnic compositions and then press them as tablets and use them. In that machine, we were using different shapes for making the tablets.
But I feel some doctors use excessive medication for curing the patients and to ensure fast recovery.

drrao
always confident

#776720

03 Feb 2024 20:49

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Pharma companies make a variety of tablets and capsules and might be giving them colour to distinguish them during manufacturing, packing, and other processes. Another reason could be to maintain a particular colour for a particular medicine so that the patient can identify it easily. But there might be some mixing when medicines are from different sources and only a qualified doctor can identify them.

Thoughts exchanged is knowledge gained.

#776777

06 Feb 2024 22:01

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I see that some members have seen such colourful and different shaped tablets. But I had seen such varied shapes and colour only in the medicines given by the particular referred doctor. Mostly otherwise I used to get white and mostly round or thick rectangular like tablets. Occasionally a vitamin supplement may be of a pink or orange colour. Hence I raised this thread.

Bitter pills may be, but better-rainbow pills for ills

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