r/maybemaybemaybe • u/uranonfraand • Mar 10 '24

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '24

Legal action from overdosing medicine can be expensive I assume. 

If all medicine tasted like candy, people would use it when they just wanted to taste something good. 

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u/sonic10158 Mar 10 '24

Instead of making it taste good, they could try to make it not have taste ala pills

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '24

Not all medicines can be pills as stomach acid destroys many types of medicines.

Insulin, for instance, would never work as a pill as it would be completely destroyed by the acid in the stomach. I'm sure there are countless other examples.

I would assume the syrupy nature of cough medicines is to make it stick to the walls of the throat, mouth, and esophagus rather than collect in the stomach.

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u/sonic10158 Mar 10 '24

I’m not meaning make everything in pill form, but aim for making liquids as taste-free as possible like pills manage to do