1, psychology of drug packaging and drug use
Drugs are different from ordinary commodities. In addition to ensuring the quality of drugs, drug packaging also needs special attention. Good drug packaging can not only ensure the quality of drugs, but also attract people's attention, give people a good image of drugs, and make people have a strong trust in drugs, thus greatly improving patients' compliance with drugs. And inferior packaging can not only effectively protect drugs, but also make people distrust their quality and efficacy.
Medical packaging and decoration design, artistic modeling, color, pattern, trademark, etc. Will have the psychological effect of drugs. Colors and patterns can arouse the association of patients. For example, the model on the box reminds people that this is a medicine for treating stomach diseases. Red is associated with enthusiasm and excitement, while blue is associated with cold and quiet. Therefore, the packaging of central excitatory drugs should be based on red, and the packaging of antipyretic and analgesic drugs should be based on blue.
2. Convenience of drug packaging and medication.
Labels and instructions are important components of drug packaging, and their functions are to clearly and accurately introduce drug ingredients, curative effects, medication instructions, precautions and other contents to consumers. If the design is not good, it will not only affect the convenience of patients taking medicine, but also seriously lead to the wrong dosage of patients taking medicine and affect their health! But in real life, there are some problems in the labels and instructions of drug packaging, such as:
In the layout of (1), some packages are written in inconspicuous places with small characters, which brings inconvenience to pharmacies and patients.
(2) The dose label of drugs is unclear or difficult to understand. For example, when a drug is labeled "50mg each time", some patients don't understand the meaning of 50mg, and for example, the dose of 1 is 2g, which is taken four times. These expressions are not convenient for patients to take medicine at all.
(3) Most Chinese patent medicine pills have the problem of difficult dose distribution. For example, the packaging of a drug: [specifications] l2g per 100 capsules [packaging] 36g per bottle [dosage] 1 time, 6g per day 1 time. Some patients don't know how many tablets 6 grams is, so it's inconvenient to take out 50 tablets (equivalent to 6 grams) from the bottle.
Suggestions for improvement:
(1) In the layout of drug packaging, the name, specification and quantity should be placed in a prominent position, which is convenient for pharmacies to distribute drugs;
(2) Dose introduction language should be easy to understand, so as to facilitate patients to use drugs. For example, the above example should be changed to "take two tablets each time" (the specification of each tablet is 25mg) and "take two tablets each time, four times a day" (the specification of each tablet is o.25g).
(3) It is suggested that manufacturers adopt single-dose packaging to facilitate clinical and patient use. Before switching to single-dose packaging, the description of divided doses should be added to the drug instructions, and a metering device for divided doses should be equipped to facilitate medication.
3. Safety of drug packaging and medication
Drug packaging is also directly related to drug safety. For example, drugs that are susceptible to moisture should be packed in glass bottles, not plastic bottles; Drugs that need to be kept away from light should not be packed in aluminum-plastic or transparent glass bottles, but in aluminum foil/aluminum foil board or brown glass bottles. If the packaging of drugs is not suitable, it will lead to premature failure of drugs and have adverse effects on consumers. Therefore, the inner packaging materials and containers (drug packaging materials) that are in direct contact with drugs must be tested for stability according to their materials to investigate the compatibility between drug packaging materials and drugs.
In addition, drug packaging should also take care of children, the elderly and other people when designing. For example, the drug packaging used by children can be designed to be difficult for children to open, which can effectively avoid the accident of children taking drugs by mistake; The packaging of drugs used by the elderly should be easy to open and take, and the font of drug instructions can be appropriately larger, and the introduction should be detailed for the elderly to watch.
In addition, drug packaging should have anti-counterfeiting marks, which can effectively prevent counterfeiting, help consumers identify and ensure drug safety.
4, the effectiveness of packaging and medication
It takes a long time to produce, transport, store and use drugs. Therefore, the drug packaging must be able to ensure that the drug can be protected within the validity period of the drug, otherwise it will reduce the efficacy of the drug or expire early, bring losses to consumers and even affect health.
The protective function of drug packaging should mainly include the following two aspects:
① barrier effect
Drug packaging should ensure that the drugs in the container are impermeable and leak-free, and can also block the contact between external air, light, humidity, heat, foreign bodies and microorganisms and drugs;
② Buffering effect
Packaging should be able to prevent drugs from being shaken, impacted and squeezed by various external forces during transportation and storage. Therefore, drug packaging must first have a good protection function. Some pharmaceutical manufacturers use packaging casually without considering the characteristics of drugs, which leads to the failure of drugs during the use period, disappointing consumers and bringing negative effects to enterprises. Some enterprises deliberately increase the capacity of drug packaging to mislead consumers. This practice not only wastes packaging materials, increases the volume of storage and transportation, but also increases the chance of drugs colliding with each other, which affects the effective preservation of drugs. It is suggested that relevant enterprises should consider the characteristics of drugs, facilitate patients to take drugs and design scientific and reasonable packaging.
5, the economy of drug packaging and medication
Drug packaging should choose appropriate packaging materials and packaging forms according to the characteristics of drugs, and choose the most economical packaging form on the premise of ensuring effective protection of drugs. In addition, drug packaging also directly affects the economy of patients' medication.
In life, the packaging design of many drugs is not reasonable enough. For example, some bottled cough syrup drugs, a large bottle full, do not need small packaging, people will recover after taking it several times, but more than half of the remaining drugs, because the bottle cap has been opened, the sealing is not good, and it can only be discarded after a long time, resulting in waste. It is suggested that this medicine can be packaged in small capacity. Therefore, when designing packaging, related enterprises should first consider from the consumer's point of view and design reasonable, economical and applicable packaging. I can ..
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