Subscribe to the BlogThe most used kitchen spoon if used for medicine may lead you to error. Researches of Cornell food and brand insist never use kitchen for dosage. Liquid medicine consumed with a kitchen spoon is dangerous. The kitchen spoons pour too much or too less medicine.
The research was conducted among cold and flu suffers 195 patients. The sufferers were asked to pour the medicine in teaspoon of different sizes. Patients poured an average teaspoon the medicine was found to be 8 to 10 %less.
In medium size spoon the medicine was under dosed, in large the medicine was too much. The result of overdose may lead to ineffectiveness or danger to the suffers. So the best way to prevent this mistake is to use the dosage cup.
The estimate of ours may sometimes be incorrect so be careful.