SciShow: Why Can't Kids Just Take Smaller Doses of Adult Meds?

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Content of the Lesson: Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try their Physics of the Everyday course. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. You might have noticed that lots of drugs have special children’s formulas, and you might think that’s because smaller people need smaller doses. But you’d be wrong! Because kids aren’t just tiny adults. Hosted by: Stefan Chin Special thanks to Dr. Kenneth Nagy for providing metabolic rate information. https://www.eeb.ucla.edu/indivfaulty2/ SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40262-014-0134-5 http://courses.washington.edu/pharm309/calculations/Lesson4.pdf https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=x9z-ULw3UnoC&oi=fnd&pg=PR1&dq=eckert+animal+physiology&ots=rxmSvj-duK&sig=FsSI0FmyklWufTlXE8wnoIwFA58#v=onepage&q=eckert%20animal%20physiology&f=false https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yves_Schutz/publication/21605788_Reexamination_of_the_relationship_of_resting_metabolic_rate_to_fat-free_mass_and_to_the_metabolically_active_components_of_fat-free_mass_in_humans/links/53f4c5fc0cf22be01c3edead.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1617203/ https://jeb.biologists.org/content/208/9/1621#skip-link https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1509/1509.08912.pdf https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-12-439 https://www.advil.com/advil https://childrens.advil.com/junior-strength-advil-chewables https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2125.2005.02410.x https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000348949210100904 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1081/JAS-120004032 https://accp1.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jcph.831 https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k3786.full https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/dianne-murphy-unique-insight-world-pediatric-medicine Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paracetamol-from-xtal-3D-balls.png https://www.videoblocks.com/video/blood-cred-and-white-blood-cells-and-in-the-veinells-flow-hux6jrjtejvw0o6cl https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/pill-bottle-icon-flat-2-gm1139121335-304371848 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/little-kid-playing-grownup-gm188072650-29224814 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/all-age-group-of-african-american-people-the-life-cycle-a-baby-a-child-a-teenager-gm1080421846-289614155 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/defocused-empty-corridor-in-a-hospital-gm1093846702-293555163 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/medicinal-tablets-set-tablets-of-different-colors-isolated-objects-on-white-gm1126623524-296676624 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/father-teaching-his-son-cycling-at-park-gm1126785367-296770966 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/insulin-molecule-cell-gm464612473-32993280 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/drugs-gm458886543-26469407 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/capsules-gm154044656-20393201 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/curious-sea-lion-underwater-gm482805845-26139608 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/chameleon-skin-gm1075932902-288090076 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/human-blood-vessel-flat-icon-vector-illustration-gm1170634985-324004477 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/hemophlia-unique-logo-design-gm1091828380-292931159 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/realistic-illustration-of-a-mountain-landscape-on-safari-in-kenya-africa-giraffes-gm1132967975-300557259 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/baby-39-s-visit-to-the-doctor-gm1130456907-298975392 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/smiling-female-doctor-listen-cute-african-boy-make-notes-gm1180549283-330770855 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/syringe-drug-icon-gm1129777011-298568299 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/this-tablet-is-way-too-big-gm186785966-27419374 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/pretty-pills-gm963142602-263066778 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/pug-with-tilted-head-gm484619329-38507796


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