lmh wrote:
Quote from the box of phenoxymethylpenicillin that my child is taking:
"Total Sodium content per 5mL is 0.005mM"
I barely know where to start. Not only have we got the fundamental "mMolar versus mmole" problem that you'd hope would be ironed out by the end of a masters in analytical chemistry, or a degree in pharmacology. But on top of that I wonder if we've got a problem with our orders of magnitude? The medication contains sodium saccharin and sodium benzoate as preservative.
That would be 0.115g/L of Sodium from the preservatives. So sodium benzoate is present at about 0.05% which seems a little low actually as a preservative and that is not counting the saccharin contribution.
Also that is only 575 micrograms in a 5ml dose, is that amount of sodium even something to be considered as Peter said.
I guess though as is mandated by the FDA now, if you put any sodium at all into the product, you must label it with the content. But the average person is definitely not going to know what mM units mean at all.