Enhanced medicine cup with a sipping straw for use with a medicine bottle

An enhanced medicine cup comprising:

• a frustoconical cup having a bottom and a sidewall, the sidewall having an outer surface forming an exposed outermost exterior wall of the cup that is exposed to ambient conditions, an inner surface, and a top circumferential edge opposite the bottom, the inner surface of the cup defining an inner volume for holding a liquid medicine and for engaging a top portion of a medicine bottle, the cup further having an opening located adjacent the bottom of the cup that extends through the sidewall;
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• a single piece inextensible sipping straw in fixed alignment with and formed solely along the outer surface of the sidewall of the cup in an original non-collapsed or unfolded orientation prior to use, the single piece inextensible sipping straw having an open top end extending above the outer surface of the top circumferential edge of the sidewall of the cup, and a closed bottom end having a side opening in fluid communication with the opening adjacent the bottom of the cup so that fluid can flow from the bottom of the cup through both the opening adjacent the bottom of the cup and the side opening of the single piece inextensible sipping straw when a negative pressure is applied to the open top end of the single piece inextensible sipping straw, and wherein the inner surface of the sidewall is dimensioned to engage the top portion of the medicine bottle without contacting the single piece inextensible sipping straw when the medicine cup is placed over the top portion of the medicine bottle, and wherein the single piece inextensible sipping straw remains in a non-collapsed or unfolded orientation during use.