How to prescribe or confirm the child’s dose using adult dose
Sometimes you are skeptical about the drugs you are buying from your chemists. May be you have been wondering how you can confirm whether these drugs are in their correct doses or not. Truly, some of chemists use trial methods to prescribe drugs for their customers. This conduct always results in medical challenges. However, do you know you can determine the correct dose of the drug for your child, even if you are not a medical expert? Yes, you can. Though, you have to do some calculations to get the right dose for your child using the adult dose. By using the Cowling’ Rule it is possible to get the correct dose for your child using the adult dose. The Cowling’s Rule is a method which converts the adult dose into the child’s dose using the age of the child. The Cowling’s Rule formula consists of three variables (d, a and D). The equation for the Cowling’s rule is represented by: d=D (a+1)/24 d denotes the child’s dose. D represents the adult dose while a signif...