Taking medicine

A person without dexterity can dampen a thumb to remove medicine from a dish

Description
To take pills from a dish the user dampens her thumb with saliva. The pills stick to her thumb and she can lift them to her mouth.

Tip is dated from 2007

Categories for this tip
looking after ones health » handling of medicine, Tips and tricks from people with High tetraplegia with partly function in arms/hands (C5-6, ASIA A, B).