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How do you measure for liquid medicine / cooking etc? (self.Blind)
submitted by FlyingTigerKepi
Hello again folks, and thank you for the responses to a prior question I had about how you know when to stop pouring your drink!
Now I'm curious about quantities that must be measured. Now that I think of it, what about knowing which types of medicine you're taking to begin with? Whether it be liquid, powder, or pill form.
Do you rely on the "seeing eye human" app? Or some other person that's physically there or you can video call as needed?
Thank you so much for appeasing my curiosity!
impablomations 5 points 1y ago
I take quite a large amount of pills because of other health reasons, 27 per day.

My pharmacist puts them into a dosette box so I only need to press out the relevant box at the appropriate time each day.

Similar to this: https://i.imgur.com/UIUzRwa.jpeg
mdizak 5 points 1y ago
Can't say about medicine, but cooking is easy. For example, just keep only a couple measuring cups - maybe one a quarter cup, and another half cup.

Use only those two. If a recipe asks for 2 cups, you know it's 4 times the half cup. This way you only have two measuring cups to keep track of, and can get any measurement you want.
suitcaseismyhome 2 points 1y ago
Funny that's one thing that is very different about cooking in Germany mostly things are weighed and not measured in cups etc. Talking scales are good. There is a measuring tool which also does flour liquid raisins etc it's kind of a cone thing has about 20 sections with writing so you know what the measurements are for raisins for flour etc.

It's hell for the visually impaired

https://www.torquato.de/dr-oetker-messbecher-05l-nostalgie.html

That link shows the inside of what I mean and I cannot understand how anyone with even the slightest vision loss can read it but my 96 Yr old grandmother still uses hers multiple times a week
TwoSunsRise 3 points 1y ago
For cooking, you can buy measuring spoons and measuring cups with braille.
niamhweking 2 points 1y ago
Kids medicine comes with 5ml syringes. (Calpol and the likes)

Ask a vet or pharmacist for oral syringes
retrolental_morose 2 points 1y ago
All medicine in the UK has to be labelled in Braille by law. The PILs (patient information leaflets) that come in the boxes, are all also available online.

The spoons and Syringes that come with meds aren't always useful if you have no sight at all, but you can buy them in specific sizes, between 1 and about 30 ML, although 5-10 are common.
thatawkwardcosplayer 2 points 1y ago
I have a medication reader from Walmart that uses RFID tags! Tells me how many of my pills to take and any instructions. Liquid ones I don’t use other than cough syrup? And it comes with a lil cup so it’s p easy for me with partial vision.
suitcaseismyhome 2 points 1y ago
As for the question I cannot answer about liquid medicine but I do take a large number of pills daily because I am dealing with 2 primary cancers.

So I have a very organised system every 2 months where I put my pills in the pill boxes.

I'm very careful to count them out because several of them look very similar so I need to make sure that I have one of each so it means that I am counting all the brow pills and then all the pink pills and all the blue pills etc.

If I count out 60 brown pills and put all the pills in the daily Boxes and have two Brown pills left over I know I have a problem.

And there are a few that actually smell different so if I can not figure out from the label I can't figure out what they are.
impablomations 2 points 1y ago
I take 27 pills per day and my pharmacist puts them in a disposable dosette box for me, yours might be able to do the same.

Then all you have to do is press out the blister for the appropriate time/day.

Makes it so much easier!
suitcaseismyhome 2 points 1y ago
Oh actually got an email about this the other day I joined some American program that sends educational emails and that was actually the topic!

But I didn't actually read it so I have no use to you maybe somebody else did? I think maybe it was something called the Hadley institute?
TechnicalPragmatist 1 points 1y ago
For cooking there’s braille measuring cupts and spoons. And talking scales.

For meds not sure how to deal with liquid stuff. Is there a pill form I would prefer that and I would think that would generally work better for the blind.
Marconius 1 points 1y ago
For cooking/baking, I have measuring cups that fold flat and have embossed numbers/fractions on the bottom of the inside of the cups that let me quickly figure out which is which. I also use a Reflex SmartChef scale in the kitchen with the Baking Scale iOS app which gives me tons of units, allows me to use the talking scale feature with an adjustable voice and voice speed. You have to be precise with baking, so measuring by weight rather than volume always helps. I also measure out coffee beans, water and other liquids, meat, and anything else I need to portion.
For liquids, I tend to pour into my measuring spoon or cup over a bowl so I can catch spillage and conserve the waste, returning the leftover spillage to the bottle. There are pre-measured pipettes that people use to draw in very specific amounts of liquids but I haven't tried those yet.

I take a few pills a day, mostly supplements, and those bottles are very distinct so I have no trouble differentiating them. Walgreens and CVS pharmacies in the US also have talking caps for drug bottles, allowing a pre-recorded message, instructions, or drug name to be accessed audibly when interacting with it. This helps when you have multiple drug bottles that all feel the same.
bradley22 1 points 1y ago
I don't need to take pills/tablets but for weighing things I'd use a talking scale.
OldManOnFire 1 points 1y ago
A few general observations on cooking -

* The kitchen is lit by two very bright full spectrum LED lights. It's the best lit room in our house.
* I never measure anything I cook. I was an engineer and a machinist so for me measuring is a science. Cooking is an art. I guess at everything.
* People who are really polite call my cooking "bold" and "daring" and "adventurous".
* Sometimes my experiments lead to something great and we'll add it into our lives. Other times it turns out awful and I don't try that experiment again.
* I can't read what's written on spice bottles even in the bright light of our kitchen. Most of the spices I know by color, but if I have two different spices that are similar in color I wrap an elastic band around one of the bottles so I know which one it is.
* We have a dishwasher but I usually do dishes by hand, but I'm finding it harder and harder to rinse the soap off. White bubbles hide on white ceramic so lately I've washed them by hand then put them in the dishwasher and ran it without soap to rinse them.
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