SOLUTION: When Ibuprofen is given for fever for children 6 months of age up to 2 years, the usual dose is 5 miligrams (mg) per kilogram (kg) of body weight when the fever is under 102.5 degr

Question 1185565: When Ibuprofen is given for fever for children 6 months of age up to 2 years, the usual dose is 5 miligrams (mg) per kilogram (kg) of body weight when the fever is under 102.5 degrees Fahrenheit. How much medicine would be usual dose for a 18 month old weighing 23 pounds?
Answer by ikleyn(52858) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Read the problem attentively;

read and re-read it until you will get a full understanding.

Then multiply 5 milligrams by 23 and by 0.454.

Here 0.454 is the conversion factor to convert pounds to kilograms.

Please do not consider my post as a real recomendation from a doctor.

I am not a doctor.

What I wrote is simply procedure for you to get your number.

If you need an advise from a specialist, ask the doctor.

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