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Edit: Ok, ok, I totally screwed that up. Damnit. Sorry, everyone. Grams aren't kilograms. The freaking base unit shouldn't have a prefix. 2000mg/kg = 2, right?

by termain 11y ago

Edit: Ok, ok, I totally screwed that up. Damnit. Sorry, everyone. Grams aren't kilograms. The freaking base unit shouldn't have a prefix. 2000mg/kg = 2, right? Like 2kg of medicine for every one kg of body mass? That seems impossible to consume. Even 0.1 kg/kg seems really, really high. Or is mg here used for micrograms rather than milligrams? So it's actually 2000 μg/kg.

4ad 11y ago
> 2000mg/kg = 2, right? No, 2000mg/kg = 0.002 > Like 2kg of medicine for every one kg of body mass? No, 2g for every kg of body. And that's some safe limit, not therapeutic dose. > Or is mg here used for micrograms rather than milligrams? No, it's milligrams.
dsr_ 11y ago
2g of drug per kilogram of body mass. That's not the therapeutic dose, that's the safety limit.
zeristor 11y ago
2000 mg is 2g (a kg is 1000g, or 1 x 10^6mg) Have you worked on software for NASA Mars probes in the past?
- termain 11y ago
  Err.... NASA software, yes. No Mars probes yet. Yeah, I know, I know.
  - zeristor 11y ago
    I really need to be less sarcastic.
    - sneak 11y ago
      I concur entirely. You had ought to be ashamed of yourself.
    - termain 11y ago
      It was the perfect comment.
gboss 11y ago
2000mg = 2 grams not 2 kilograms. So it would be 2 grams per kilogram. 2kg = 20000000mg. Hope that clears that up.
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kilburn 11y ago
Wrong. 2000mg/Kg = 2g/Kg, two grams of the chemical per kilogram (1000g) of the subject. To give you an idea, that's 160g of chemical for an 80Kg human. Quite a lot, but nowhere near impossible to consume...
- 4ad 11y ago
  Actually it's just something between 0.8g and 8g, 160g is a safe limit, not the therapeutic dose.