ESSENTIAL HOME PHARMACY KITS
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1. A medication kit comprising:
- a plurality of single active ingredient drugs, each single active ingredient drug in a separate container, each separate container having a category indicator thereon;
a correlator for correlating said category indicators with symptomatic references, said correlator for indicating which combination, if any, of said single active ingredient drugs should be taken in combination to relieve specific symptoms listed in said symptomatic reference.
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Abstract
A home pharmacy kit provided to organize, educate, simplify and add convenience to the consumer regarding self-treatment with over-the-counter (OTC) drugs and self-management of therapy with widely and commonly used OTC medications. The kit of the invention allows a consumer to achieve appropriate therapy when self-medicating and allows a consumer to avoid therapeutic duplication and over utilization and/or underutilization of medications, which may result from a lack of consumer related to the action and effects of common active ingredients found in a wide variety of cold and cough combination drug products as well as in gastrointestinal combination drug products.
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16 Claims
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1. A medication kit comprising:
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a plurality of single active ingredient drugs, each single active ingredient drug in a separate container, each separate container having a category indicator thereon; a correlator for correlating said category indicators with symptomatic references, said correlator for indicating which combination, if any, of said single active ingredient drugs should be taken in combination to relieve specific symptoms listed in said symptomatic reference. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of delivering symptom specific drugs to a patient comprising the steps of:
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providing a plurality of containers, each container having a single active ingredient medication therein; locating said plurality of containers in a holder having a plurality of receptacles, each receptacle for receiving one of said containers; providing a correlator to allow a person to correlate symptoms with appropriate containers so that the patient may select medication from an appropriate container. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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