It is often true that the most useful advancements come from very small changes. DropAid is an example of that.
DropAid an eye drop application aid, developed by Gerresheimer, a German company that produces specialised glass and plastic products for the pharma and healthcare industries.
“We put ourselves in the shoes of the person who has to use the eye drops and considered how we could make it easier to use. That’s how we came up with this small, but extremely useful DropAid that we’d like to recommend to all our customers who manufacture eye drops. It will also help them to ensure better compliance in the medications,” Niels Düring, Global senior vice president plastic packaging at Gerresheimer.
Sometimes small size eye drop bottles can be difficult to open, especially for the elderly. DropAid changes that. Sometimes positioning the dropper the dropper correctly above the eye is difficult. DropAid changes that. Sometimes, it is difficult to deliver the dose correctly. DropAid changes that too.
DropAid has a circular aperture that fits perfectly onto the eye drop bottle top and helps to open it with very little effort or pressure. If DropAid is placed vertically on the bottle neck with the crescent part clipped onto the open bottle, it can be rested firmly on the side of the eye so that the correct number of drops can be given.
DropAid fits System A Dropper Bottles for ophthalmic applications.
Gerresheimer’s products for ophthalmic and nasal applications include LDPE, HDPE, PP and other materials for bottles and droppers and CLC bottles. It has more than forty production facilities in Europe, North and South America and Asia. It manufactures products in eight facilities in Asia.
