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What is the Difference between strength and dosage of a medication?
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What is difference between Lortab 10mg and hydrocodone?
Hydrocodone apap 7.5 and 500 are refering to the strength of the medication. 5.00 is obviously less than the 7.5. And the difference between them and the loratab 10 is still the dosage. Loratab is another name for hydrocodone and the 10 is just a stronger dosage.
What is a narco What is the difference between vicodin and narco?
Narco is a pain medication that contains acetaminophen and hydrocodone. The difference between Vicodin and Narco is the dosage.
What is the difference between dosage form and dosage strength?
The form is the method of administration: intravenous, sub-cutaneous, oral, inhalation, etc.The strength is the concentration of the active ingredient.The dose is the total amount of active ingredient.
How do you tell how strong a pill is?
You can get an idea about the strength of your medication by how much you have. For instance, higher milligrams of medication means you have a stronger dosage.
Who set the dosage for medication?
Medication is prescribed by doctors, who set the dosage.
What is difference between oral and peroral dosage form?
No difference.
Is there a difference in dosage between OTC Claritin and prescription?
No, the dosage is the same: loratadine 10mg daily.
What does non prescription strength mean?
A medication that can be bought over the counter is generally at a weaker dosage than if it was prescribed by a doctor. So a non prescription strength might be a pill of 10mg strength, whereas if it was via a prescription, the strength may be at 100mg.
What is the difference between Percocet 5 mg and Percocet 2.5mg?
dosage
What is the difference between the word 'dose' and the word 'dosage'?
As nouns, dose and dosage are synonyms. Dose may also be a verb.
How does one determine the correct dosage of a given drug?
In order to determine the correct dosage of a given drug, one must find out the general dosage. The general dosage is milligrams of medication to kilograms of body weight. So for example if the general dosage is 5 mg/kg and the person taking the medication weighs 40 kg, 1000 mg of medication would be the required dosage.
A pills has a dosage 350mg of medication How much medication is this in grams?
it would have 50grams in it
