Case Study. A mother saw her son John eating aspirin pills from an open bottle. The little boy weighed 22 pounds. Calculate the number of aspirin tablets that would be a LD50 dose for this child. • The oral LD50 of aspirin is 200mg/kg. • 1 kg equals 2.2 pounds. What is John's weight in kg? What is the LD 50 of aspirin for John's weight? One aspirin tablet is equal to 325 mg. How many aspirin tablets are required to reach that LD50 quantity? Are you in favor of child safety tops on pill bottles?
Case Study. A mother saw her son John eating aspirin pills from an open bottle. The little boy weighed 22 pounds. Calculate the number of aspirin tablets that would be a LD50 dose for this child. • The oral LD50 of aspirin is 200mg/kg. • 1 kg equals 2.2 pounds. What is John's weight in kg? What is the LD 50 of aspirin for John's weight? One aspirin tablet is equal to 325 mg. How many aspirin tablets are required to reach that LD50 quantity? Are you in favor of child safety tops on pill bottles?
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A mother saw her son John eating aspirin pills from an open bottle. The little boy weighed 22 pounds. Calculate the number of aspirin tablets that would be a LD50 dose for this child.
- The oral LD50 of aspirin is 200mg/kg.
- 1 kg equals 2.2 pounds.
**Questions:**
1. **What is John’s weight in kg?**
2. **What is the LD 50 of aspirin for John’s weight?**
3. **One aspirin tablet is equal to 325 mg. How many aspirin tablets are required to reach that LD50 quantity?**
4. **Are you in favor of child safety tops on pill bottles?**
*Note: In LD50, "LD" stands for "lethal dose," and "50" represents the dose at which 50% of the test subjects (in this case, children of similar weight) would be expected to die from drug toxicity.*
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