I am working in pharmacy and packing medication in blister pack without using gloves for 8 hours a?

I have a the same question as Leila. I believe everyone has made it very clear how they feel about the fact that it is unsanitary to touch medication with your bare hands yet no one has actually answered her question. Sometimes pharmacy technicians are touching pills by accident that then get discarded. So with no risk to any patients can someone please answer the original question about whether the pills and which ones can be harmful to the pharmacy worker over the years without your personal opinion or lectures? The fact that it shouldn't have happened has already been covered but what's done is done and Leila and many others still touched the pills, so what is the potential risk to the person or persons who may have touched pills over the years while discarding the medication?

You can get drug reactions from just touching the medication/pills. Alot of these pills can seep through your skin, like heart meds and blood pressure meds and this is one reason why nobody else should touch your pills.Wear gloves when touching medicines.

There are some medications that can be absorbed through the skin. Most wont hurt you with contact unless the pills are broken, some can, but still. I agree with Kaismama, it is not sanitary for someone to be handling drugs with bare hands. They need to be giving you gloves or some kind of device to handle the meds without touching them with your bare hands. Too many diseases are passed on the hands. What if you are packing meds for someone who is immunocompromised? That is just nasty. It exposes the person you are packing for to germs on your hands and it may expose you to certain drugs. The skin CAN absorb medications and you are handling large quantities each day. I would be discussing this with my superiors. If they wont help then perhaps OSHA will.

You should definitely be wearing gloves. Depending on what it is you are packing it could be harmful to you.. And to put it bluntly I don't want to take pills that someone packed who was touching it with their bare hands.