Answer:
The dose for this patient should be 800 mg per day, ie., 4000 mg in total for 5 days.
Explanation:
2.2 lbs: 1 kilogram
22 lbs: 10 kilograms
Acyclovir oral suspension 20mg/kg >> 10 kg: 200 mg
This needs to be repeated four times in a day (i.e., every 6 hours) during five days >>
200 mg x 4 = 800 mg >>
800 mg x 5 days = 4000 mg
Answer:
James Lind during his voyage and experiments at the sea used his medical expertise to develop a vaccine for scurvy.
Explanation:
James Lind during his voyages across the ocean began to notice that the sailors suffered a strange disease. The patients started feeling weak, bleeding from the gums, edema, hypothermia, dry skin, progressing to internal bleeding and even death.
James Lind administered to the sailors concentrated citrus fruits like lemon and orange. But he did it because he thought that scurvy could be prevented with acids.
After years of research it was learned that scurvy is produced by ascorbic acid(vitamin c) deficiency and since we humans do not have the necessary machinery to synthesize it for ourselves, we need to consume it exogenously.
Answer: True
Explanation:
The given statement is true as, the digestive nerve plexus circulates the movement of the digestive system and compromises the two nerve center that are:
- Meissner nerve plexus
- Myenteric nerve plexus
Basically, it present in the longitudinal muscles and in circular layer muscles in the lower stomach and helped in transmitted the message muscles cell from the nervous system. That is why, it provided the nerve supply to the GI tract wall and help in control the GI motility.
The outside of the rock is exposed to water, wind, or dust that over time breaks down the outside of the rock.
