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c/reconstitution·submitted 10 months ago by u/vito_beaulieu

[Question] how do you actually verify units

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Asking properly rather than in a comment on somebody else’s thread: how do you actually verify units. Why "more water" keeps confusing people, including me for a month. The vial contains a fixed amount of peptide. Water changes nothing about that amount. What it changes is concentration, and concentration is the…

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u/lyophile_lou227 points·10 months ago

reconstituting at a round concentration makes every later dose easy

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u/viktor_erdogan155 points·10 months ago

Right — the volume you add is the only variable you control here, and the cake does not change it meaningfully.

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u/units_not_mgsyringe math130 points·10 months ago

Correction: that gives 30 units, not what you have written. 15mg into 3mL is 5mg/mL and the division follows from there.

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u/bruno_dumitru180 points·10 months ago

if the maths gives you a fraction of a unit, change the concentration

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u/units_not_mgMOD132 points·10 months ago

Working has to be shown on arithmetic posts. Added a note asking for it rather than removing this one.

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u/vito_beaulieuOP75 points·10 months ago

What concentration did you actually reconstitute at, rather than what did you intend to?

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u/priya_weiss35 points·10 months ago·edited

Agreed on the swirl. There is no reason to shake it and a good reason not to.

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u/spain_receta12 points·10 months ago

Yes, and the dead-space point is worth repeating: it is small, it is real, and it is the same for every draw.

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u/emeka_delgado22 points·10 months ago

This. Showing the working is the fastest way for somebody else to spot the mistake.

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