Question

The adult dose of the drug is 250 mg, what is dose for 6 year old child? (Hint: Use Young's rule) O 83.33 mg 0 100 mg 0 142 mg 0 53.33 mg Save & Next Previous To be reviewed later
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Answer 1

Explanation:

Young’s Rule for calculating a child’s dosage for medication is

Child dose = (age of child / age of child +12 ) *

adult dose

(a) The adult’s dose is 250mg and age of child is 6 years, then dose of child=?

child's dose = (6/6+12) *250

= 83.33

Therefore the dose of child is 83.33