[termain]

Edit: Ok, ok, I totally screwed that up. Damnit. Sorry, everyone. Grams aren't kilograms. The freaking base unit shouldn't have a prefix.

2000mg/kg = 2, right?

Like 2kg of medicine for every one kg of body mass? That seems impossible to consume. Even 0.1 kg/kg seems really, really high.

Or is mg here used for micrograms rather than milligrams? So it's actually 2000 μg/kg.

[zeristor]

2000 mg is 2g (a kg is 1000g, or 1 x 10^6mg)

Have you worked on software for NASA Mars probes in the past?

[termain]

Err.... NASA software, yes. No Mars probes yet.

Yeah, I know, I know.

[zeristor]

I really need to be less sarcastic.

[termain]

It was the perfect comment.

[sneak]

I concur entirely. You had ought to be ashamed of yourself.

[dsr_]

2g of drug per kilogram of body mass. That's not the therapeutic dose, that's the safety limit.

[gboss]

2000mg = 2 grams not 2 kilograms. So it would be 2 grams per kilogram.

2kg = 20000000mg.

Hope that clears that up.

[kilburn]

Wrong. 2000mg/Kg = 2g/Kg, two grams of the chemical per kilogram (1000g) of the subject. To give you an idea, that's 160g of chemical for an 80Kg human. Quite a lot, but nowhere near impossible to consume...

[4ad]

Actually it's just something between 0.8g and 8g, 160g is a safe limit, not the therapeutic dose.

[4ad]

> 2000mg/kg = 2, right?

No, 2000mg/kg = 0.002

> Like 2kg of medicine for every one kg of body mass?

No, 2g for every kg of body. And that's some safe limit, not therapeutic dose.

> Or is mg here used for micrograms rather than milligrams?

No, it's milligrams.