Cornstarch dosing

If patient is overweight, use ideal body weight to calculate cornstarch dose... 

Appendix K. Calculation of Glucose Infusion Rate and Cornstarch Dosing for Patients with Glycogen Storage Disease... 

You have a 12-year-old patient weighing 43 kg and is experiencing low blood sugar with his current cornstarch dosing regimen. He currently takes 48 g of cornstarch every 4 h starting at 10 am. Calculate the current GIR and the cornstarch dose that is appropriate for a correct GIR. 

In these experiments adult, male Fischer-344 rats were fed a purified diet, AIN-76A, containing 5 or 10% citrus pectin replacing cornstarch or one of two cereal based diets, Purina Rodent Chow 5002 and NIH-07. After 28 days of dietary treatment rats were given a single oral dose of tritiated DNT (10 or 75 mgAg). Twelve hours after dosing, animals were killed and CVB was determined by exhaustive extraction. The cecum was also excised from these animals and microflora characterized by anaerobic culture techniques (10). 

Does the dose or frequency of cornstarch need to be increased ... 

Powdered black mustard seed is the form in which foments and other topical medications are traditionally prepared. The Botanical Safety Handbook notes that ingestion of large quantities can produce irritant poisoning however, it can be used safely at appropriate doses. The handbook further advises that external use should not be sustained for longer than two weeks, and is contra-indicated in children under six years of age. Severe burning can occur after 15-30 minutes application of the pure powder, but the potency can be reduced by mixing with a carrier such as cornstarch (McGuffin et al. 1997). 

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