초록 ▼

A medication delivery straw which delivers medication held within the straw tube. When the patient drinks fluid through the straw, the medication is dissolved and ingested by the patient. A particle barrier at one end of the straw prevents viscous or powdered medicines, or crushed tablets, from fall

A medication delivery straw which delivers medication held within the straw tube. When the patient drinks fluid through the straw, the medication is dissolved and ingested by the patient. A particle barrier at one end of the straw prevents viscous or powdered medicines, or crushed tablets, from falling out of the straw. The particle barrier has apertures which allow fluid to enter the straw during use. The fluid dissolves the medication in the straw while the patient is drinking. Optional features include disposable funnels (which may be preloaded with medicine) for filling the straw with the correct dosage of medication, funnels which are capable of attaching to pill crushers, removable caps for straws with premeasured doses of medication that prevent medicine loss during handling or storage, flexible necks for ease of use, and flexible straw walls to allow crushing medicine tablets within the straw. In the alternative, a medicine sack holds the medication much like a teabag holds tea. The medicine sack is secured inside the fluid path of the straw and fluid passes through the walls of the medicine sack to dissolve the medication. Other embodiments use preloaded straws which may contain either crushable tablets or breakable cartridges.

대표청구항 ▼

[ I claim:] [1.] A method of delivering medicine with a straw including the steps of:drawing liquids into a fluid tube having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end having a proximal aperture to allow liquids to be drawn through the fluid tube under suction pressure, the proximal aperture

[ I claim:] [1.] A method of delivering medicine with a straw including the steps of:drawing liquids into a fluid tube having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end having a proximal aperture to allow liquids to be drawn through the fluid tube under suction pressure, the proximal aperture sufficiently large enough to allow medicine to be inserted into the fluid tube at the proximal aperture;inserting particles of medicine into the fluid tube; andretaining the particles of medicine in the fluid tube until they are dissolved by liquid entering the tube with a particle barrier at the distal end, the particle barrier having barrier apertures sufficiently large enough to allow liquid to enter the distal end, the barrier apertures sufficiently small enough to prevent substantially all of the particles of the medicine from passing through the particle barrier;whereby the medicine is mixed with the liquid when the liquid is pulled through the fluid tube under suction pressure.