Using the right dosage to complicate a kitchen of spoon liquid medications like syrup which can measure, cough or cold medicine.
A new study shows that the amount of liquid depends on medicine, which pays a person in a kitchen spoon the size of the spoon and often leads to overdosing or underdosing.
"Participants underdosed 8.4 %" with spoon and overdose from 11.6% to more large spoon, write researcher Brian Wansink, PhD., Cornell University, and colleagues in the annals of internal medicine. "Although the participants of average confidence, had the whole deviation of 20% that the cans, which she in the two spoons poured as well would be effective."
The FDA recommends against the use of utensils in a dose of liquid medications, but researchers say most people still spoon in the occupation of medicine use for themselves and their families.
In the study before recently patients of the Hospital of the University during the cold season and flu, a dose of 5 mL asked researchers 195 students (equivalent to 1 teaspoon) cold medicine in different sizes of kitchen spoon to inject.
Should these components visible, which apparently they first gave a dose of 5 mL, them a full bottle of cold medicine and they asked to pay a dose of 5 mL in a spoon coffee of 5 mL.
Participants were then asked to pay the dose of 5 mL in a tablespoon of medium size and a larger spoon. Given to each participant as confident, that they believed that they have paid the appropriate dose of 5 mL.
The study showed that the cold medicine, participants varies poured directly with the size of the spoon. They have an overdose of 11.6% in the use of the spoon and underdosed from 8.4% in the use of the average of the spoon size, even if she are convinced that their numbers in any case was correct.
The researchers, that the consequences of an 8% to 12%, error in a fraction of the size dosage medicine teaspoon can be minimal. But these types of overdosing and underdosing errors are likely to the people who are all four to eight hours for several days dosage collect in that sick and tired,.
Them according to, that the results that show it is safer and more efficient a measuring CAP, spoons, dosing, measuring pipette or dosage syringe liquid medications dispense as to accept, the amount, which is correct in a kitchen spoon.