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You must have come across such situations in which
either you or one of your family member was ill and was on oral liquid
medications. In order to take proper care you must had followed all the
necessary guidelines stated on prescription or told by physician for
example "take one teaspoon morning, evening and night". You must have
followed the instructions by taking teaspoon full of medicine. Here
question arises, "which" teaspoon you took to give medicine???
Just think for a while about same kind of situation, that which spoon
you will prefer to take in such circumstance? Same teaspoon you used for
making tea? Orthe desert spoon you typically use for deserts or ice
cream? Which capacity you think actually equals the requirements of
medical teaspoon described by physician? You must have assumed about a
teaspoon you are going to first-rate for medicine.
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Now here a question arises, what is the actual size of medicalteaspoon?
Real size of medical teaspoon is 5ml which is usually mentioned on
container of syrups as well but we never noticed of course. Do you think
your teaspoon is going to have 5ml medicine or more?? Actually the
teaspoon you use at your home has far less capacity than 5ml. In fact if
you measure your table spoon even that doesn’tfulfil the exact
requirement of 5ml.
This whole thing clears that medicine you were taking following "proper"
directives as per your thinking were not truly in right amount,in
factlesser. How can fewer doses treat your ailment? Now you must have
got your answer that why even proper treatment does not treat the
ailment.
Sometimes syrups come with proper medical teaspoon with marks showing
5ml, 10ml, 15ml etc. You can save that teaspoon for future use by
"properly" cleansing it after use or otherwise you can compare your
regular spoons available in your kitchen with theone in syrup box so
that you don't face such hitches in future. So whenever you listen word
"teaspoon" in medical never confuses it with one you have in your
kitchen.
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