Number of tsp or tbsp per dose
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If a patient needs to take the medicine BID and if 350 mL are to be administered in 1 week, then determine the number of teaspoonfuls or tablespoonfuls that should be prescribed for each dose.
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The volume of the total content is 350 mL, which will be finished in 7 days. Therefore, daily `350/7 = 50` mL of solutions will be taken.
Now, BID means 2 time(s) a day; therefore, the volume of each dose will be `50/2 = 25` mL.
Again, tsp is 5 mL and tbsp is 15 mL. Therefore, 25 mL will be equivalent to 5 tsp. Answer.