I was looking at the information that came with my medication, and I noticed that the starting dose for children and adolescents under 70 kg is 0.5 mg/kg, or for children and adolescents over 70 kg, and for adults regardless of weight, it's 40 mg. But what about adults that are significantly under 70 kg? It seems to me that my response to medication would be a lot more similar to that of my 16-year-old sister, who's close to the same weight as I am, than, say, my dad who's well over twice my age and probably close to twice my weight. My doctor had me take only 18 mg (which still produced enough side effects that I stopped taking it after four days), but I'm curious as to why the recommended dosages for many medications seem to assume the response in adults won't be weight-dependent when it clearly will be.
2007-01-27
08:36:14
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