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Old 5th, March 2007, 12:26 AM
Shaani Shaani is offline
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Default Re: dosage

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Originally Posted by Linnear View Post
This depends on the actual drug being introduced.

Exubera (inhaled insulin) website states that 100units of insulin need to be deposited in the nose to get 10 units into the system.

So a dose can usually be found to equal another dosage form but will usually be a different amount depending on the target site.

so in this case its likely that 90% of Exubera will be "lost", im guessing nasal hairs would accumulate a fair amount of it.

btw - wouldnt all target sites for medicines/drugs be the blood stream? (sorry for being difficult!! lol)
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