Ezy Dose pill cutters

A cutter is for a tablet the label says may be split, and that is the pharmacist’s question before it is ours: FDA approves splitting only where the prescribing information says so, and most sustained- or timed-release tablets are not meant for it. Once that is settled, the cutter’s job is a straight break on the score line without the tablet skating off, and the difference between the cutters here is how the tablet is held. The V-shaped cradle centres a round or an oval tablet; the blade comes down through the lid, and the halves drop into a compartment under it.

The safety-shield cutter closes a guard over the blade so a thumb never meets it, which is the one to buy for a house where the cutter lives in a drawer with other things. The dispenser cutters store the halves in a chamber that pours one out at a time. The cutter with a magnifier is for reading a score line on a small tablet, and the travel size is the same blade in a body that fits a pocket. Split one tablet at a time as the label is used; a bottle split in advance loses potency to heat and moisture, and the halves are never quite equal.