Drinking Straw Avoids Need to Swallow Bitter Pills

The XStraw, a new product from the company Dose Sipping Technology (DS Technology), makes taking medicine much more pleasant for children and the elderly. Many children pull a disgusted face when they have to take bitter-tasting medicine and elderly people who have trouble swallowing can find taking oral medicine a challenge. The XStraw drinking straw makes medicine taste much better.

XStraw is a drinking straw filled with pellets. The patient cannot taste the tiny balls in the straw and hardly feels them. They can enjoy their favourite drink with the XStraw while taking the exact amount of medicine prescribed and not experience the unpleasant taste.

The drinking straw is filled with exactly the required dosage on fully automatic systems. Thanks to pre-dosing at the manufacturer, incorrect dosages are avoided. While the patient is drinking, a control filter moves upwards, which ensures that the right amount is being taken and there is no danger of any being spilt.

With the XStraw, nobody has to sit coaxing a child into taking medicine or holding a spoon for an elderly patient. The very simple use and individual selection of type of drink, and therefore of taste, makes the drinking straw very popular with patients. The XStraw is also available printed with brand name or dosage upon request for marketing purposes.

Thanks to perfectly matched components made of polypropylene and an air-tight packaging in an aluminium blister, special storage conditions are not required.

DS Technology is the contact partner for the issue of filling licences. Customers receive comprehensive expertise and support for the development and manufacture of the  multi-particulate dosage form (pellets), delivery of the material components, implementation of the production process by the creation of suitable facilities, arrangement of licensing dossiers and, upon request, contract filling.

DS Technology, as system provider, offers the entire range of fully automated processing facilities for filling the XStraw and individual packaging as well as the cardboard.

DS Technology is a subsidiary of the company Harro Höfliger, an individually designed system solutions provider for the pharmaceutical industry.

Development and serial production is carried out jointly with Raumedic. The system supplier for medical and pharmaceutical polymer subassemblies owns all the necessary systems, tools and follow-up facilities for the fully automated production and packaging of the extruded drinking straw and the exactly matched injection-moulded cap.

DS Technology GmbH, +49 7191 501 1085, dst@hoefliger.com, www.hoefliger.com.