DIFFERENT SYMBOLS ON MEDICAL TABLETS AND ITS MEANING-WHAT IS MEANING OF RED Line | MEANING OF Rx | MEANING OF NRx| MEANING OF XRx

DIFFERENT SYMBOLS ON MEDICAL TABLETS AND ITS MEANING.

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▶Meaning of REDLINE:

Medicines with the Red Line on their strips should be consumed only with the doctor's prescription.Red Stripe Medicines - These medicines are sold only with medical prescription. Antibiotics, Anti allergenics, Anti Inflammatories, and other medicines. In Brazil, governmental control is loose on this type; it is not uncommon to buy this type of prescription medicine over the counter without a prescription.

▶Meaning of Rx:

Rx: A medical prescription. The symbol "Rx" is usually said to stand for the Latin word "recipe" meaning "to take." It is customarily part of the superscription (heading) of a prescription.

The "R" in "Rx" stands for the Latin word recipe, meaning "take," and the first doctor to use "Rx" used it as a verb with the same meaning, "Rx two aspirin" being equivalent to today's "Take two aspirin." (The word recipe had had the same function from the 13th through the 17th centuries.) Those two letters were a 19th-century take on a 16th-century symbol, the letter R with a line through its slanted leg-the line signaling that the "R" is functioning as an abbreviation. It wasn't till the early 20th century that "Rx" came to be used as the noun we know today. As for the noun "recipe," it followed the same trajectory, referring to a medical prescription for about 100 years before it developed its connection with cooking in the early 17th century.Rx: A medical prescription. The symbol "Rx" is usually said to stand for the Latin word "recipe" meaning "to take." It is customarily part of the superscription (heading) of a prescription.

The "R" in "Rx" stands for the Latin word recipe, meaning "take," and the first doctor to use "Rx" used it as a verb with the same meaning, "Rx two aspirin" being equivalent to today's "Take two aspirin." (The word recipe had had the same function from the 13th through the 17th centuries.) Those two letters were a 19th-century take on a 16th-century symbol, the letter R with a line through its slanted leg-the line signaling that the "R" is functioning as an abbreviation. It wasn't till the early 20th century that "Rx" came to be used as the noun we know today. As for the noun "recipe," it followed the same trajectory, referring to a medical prescription for about 100 years before it developed its connection with cooking in the early 17th century.

▶Meaning of NRx:

nRx stands for New Prescription. Drugs in the Schedule H and H1 category require a prescription; hence the word Rx appears on the medicine strip/bottle. If the drug is a narcotic controlled under the NDPS Act, it has to be indicated by the word nRx.

nRx stands for New Prescription. Drugs in the Schedule H and H1 category require a prescription; hence the word Rx appears on the medicine strip/bottle. If the drug is a narcotic controlled under the NDPS Act, it has to be indicated by the word nRx.

▶Meaning of XRx:

Schedule H

The drugs under this schedule can be sold only based on the prescription of a registered medical practitioner and only the amount specified in the prescription should be sold. It can be supplied only to licenced parties. These drugs should be labelled with the symbol ‘Rx’ and conspicuously displayed on the left top corner of the label.

Schedule X

Same rules are applied as per schedule H drugs. Here the drug retailer has to preserve the copy of prescription for two years and the drugs should be labelled with the symbol ‘XRx’ and conspicuously displayed on the left top corner of the label.  Schedule X includes narcotic and psychotropic substances-based drugs.

DIFFERENT SYMBOLS ON MEDICAL TABLETS AND ITS MEANING.

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