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c/reconstitution·submitted 1 year ago by u/declared_value_dv

someone explain bacteriostatic water to me like I have not read a paper in years

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Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles. The claim: reconstitution matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides have been asserting it confidently for about 11 months without either producing anything. What would actually settle it is 11 people measuring the…

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u/karim_ilunga427 points·1 year ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/nadia_kjaer-4 points·1 year ago

i am begging people to write down the concentration

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u/batch_number_bertievetting1 point·1 year ago

Did you write the concentration on the vial?

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u/declared_value_dvOP0 points·1 year ago

more water means more units for the same dose, which means finer resolution

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u/emil_zamora1 point·1 year ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/mateusz_achebe348 points·1 year ago

This is correct. 2mL versus 13mL is the common mistake.

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u/vito_beaulieu156 points·1 year ago

show your working or it is unhelpful

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u/niels_roos122 points·1 year ago

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/ilias_steiner96 points·1 year ago

dosing errors come from people reconstituting two vials differently and forgetting which is which

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u/marisol_frisk168 points·1 year ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/marta_weiss273 points·1 year ago·edited

This is correct. 3mL versus 2mL is the common mistake.

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