ELI5: Why are pills those specific shapes and sizes? I've noticed ibuprofen is always smaller and tastes sweeter than paracetamol. Codeine is tiny and amoxiclav pills are huge. Is this to make it harder to confuse them, or is it because of the way the active ingredient is released in the stomach? Submitted by mwclarkson t3_z8rtxi on November 30, 2022 at 1:42 PM in explainlikeimfive 29 comments 21
Belisaurius555 t1_iyd8ucv wrote on November 30, 2022 at 3:22 PM Mostly it's to make pills easier to identify. You don't want to mix up your anti-allergy medicine with your antibiotics after all. There's actually entire dictionaries of pill designs so that doctors and pharmacists can identify pills at a glance. Permalink 1
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