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c/reconstitution·submitted 6 months ago by u/honest_syringe_2025

the units thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down

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Thinking out loud about this: the units thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down. If your calculation produces a fraction of a unit, the concentration is wrong for your dose. Change the water volume until the numbers land on whole units. Research-use-only material is not approved for human use, so…

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u/hedda_ekstrom457 points·6 months ago

Bacteriostatic water contains benzyl alcohol as a preservative, which is what makes repeated entry into the same vial reasonable. Plain sterile water has no preservative.

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u/honest_syringe_2025OP659 points·6 months ago

Started reconstituting everything to a round concentration and the six-in-the-morning error rate went to zero.

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u/vial_math_veraMOD248 points·6 months ago

Left up and flaired Explainer — the numbers in this one check out.

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u/swirl_dont_shakereconstitution60 points·6 months ago

Agreed — units are volume. Once that lands, the rest of the arithmetic is one division.

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u/honest_syringe_2025OP-31 points·6 months ago

Bacteriostatic or plain sterile water?

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[removed]45 points·6 months ago

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u/yusuf_achebe170 points·6 months ago

Disagree with the "more water is safer" framing. It is not safer, it is just a different number to divide by.

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u/wanjiru_varga79 points·6 months ago

Disagree with the "more water is safer" framing.

Disagreeing with this line only: adding more water is not a safety margin, it is a different divisor.

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