Word: milligrams
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Released last year by the R.J. Reynolds Company, the dissolvable product contains one milligram of nicotine per pellet, and the Camel Strips version contains roughly three times as much. These levels can induce varying degrees of poisoning symptoms in children depending on the body weight of the child and the amount of dissolvable ingested, ultimately leading to severe—and possibly fatal—consequences...
...perils of acetaminophen can be particularly acute for two groups: drinkers - whose livers may already be working overtime - and kids. Unlike doses for adults, those for children tend to be very precise, right down to the milligram, which means even a single, small overdose is something to be avoided. Even more confounding is the counterintuitive way in which the formulation of a drug for infants can differ from that for an older child: the infant's version can actually be stronger since it is often administered in tiny amounts with a medicine dropper. "We've done studies here that show...