Medicine strip

[tufguy]

Medicine strip has 10 capsules in it.

Do we use the word "medicine strip" for these?

 

[tedmc]

blister packs

 

[emsr2d2]

A/This/Every medicine strip has 10 ten capsules in it.

Do we use the word "medicine strip" for these?

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I've heard blister pack, tablet strip, capsule strip. I don't know if medicine strip is used as well. It doesn't sound very natural to me.

 

[Tarheel]

I've never needed a term for those. How about:

Those annoying little containers of capsules that it takes one or two (or maybe three) minutes to get a pill out of?

 

[emsr2d2]

I've never needed a term for those. How about:

Those annoying little containers of capsules that it takes one or two (or maybe three) minutes to get a pill out of?

I think you must be doing it wrong. They're the easiest things in the world to pop a pill out of. In case anyone's interested, the main reason they're packaged like that is to avoid oxygen getting to them. Some of them are even labelled with the days of the week on the foil side so that users can tell whether they've taken their medication that day.

 

[Tarheel]

@emsr2d2
The trouble is with popping a pill out. Then it falls on the floor. (I guess I'm clumsy, huh?)

 

[emsr2d2]

@emsr2d2
The trouble is with popping a pill out. Then it falls on the floor. (I guess I'm clumsy, huh?)

Then pop it while holding the blister pack over a table or a glass!