These drugs choose the brown tablet medicine bottle

Tablets and HDPE medicine bottles are the main packaging forms of medicines such as tablets, capsules, and Chinese medicine pills. Sometimes we find that the color of some bottles is brown. What is the reason? Which drugs will choose brown bottles as packaging?

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In fact, the brown tablet medicine bottle is added with the color masterbatch to the processing raw materials, which changes the original color of the bottle. The brown color can prevent the irradiation of visible light. Therefore, this type of bottle is suitable for light-sensitive drugs, such as nitroglycerin tablets. , Aminophylline tablets, dipine antihypertensive drugs, etc.

Nitroglycerin tablets are mainly used to relieve acute attacks of angina pectoris. Its main pharmacological effect is to relax the smooth muscle of blood vessels, thereby dilating blood vessels. However, it should be noted that nitroglycerin is volatile and unstable, so it needs to be kept in a brown bottle, shading and sealed. The patient should use the original bottle when carrying it, instead of putting it in other bottles or first aid boxes.

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During an asthma attack, patients experience wheezing, shortness of breath, and chest tightness. At this time, taking aminophylline tablets can effectively relieve symptoms. But ultraviolet rays in the sun can accelerate the deterioration of aminophylline, so tablets should be placed in colored bottles and kept in a cool place.

Nifedipine and nimodipine are all antihypertensive drugs that are easily decomposed by light and reduce their efficacy. Most of these drugs themselves take anti-dipine antihypertensive medicinal measures, such as making colored capsules, etc., which can reduce the influence of light. When storing these medicines, it is best to keep the outer packaging carton. In many families, small medicine boxes are transparent plastic boxes and should be avoided on the balcony exposed to direct sunlight.

The brown tablet medicine bottle is mainly used for the storage of the above kinds of medicines, which also reflects the importance of medicine packaging in protecting the stability of medicines.