it foamed. is it ruined
#reconstitution 2026-01-11
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Highlights from this day
- VialBot — Testing queue: 9 submissions open, 120 awaiting dispatch. 15:04
- melb_meniscus — is it worth buying a 3ml syringe for the diluent or is the insulin one fine 15:05
- lyophile_liv — if the maths gives you 13.7 units, change the volume. do not try to hit 13.7 one unit is 0.01ml. 100 units is 1ml. everything else in this channel follows from that 15:50
bac water
update from 3 months ago: switched to a single concentration and have not miscalculated since
too dilute imo
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ok so temperature of the diluent does not matter. how fast you push it in does
thats fine
update on the earlier thing benzyl alcohol is what makes it bacteriostatic. it is about 0.9% typically
Testing queue: 9 submissions open, 120 awaiting dispatch.
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is it worth buying a 3ml syringe for the diluent or is the insulin one fine
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anyone worked out a recon volume that puts 0.25mg on a round unit mark
i have never once regretted using a rounder number and a slightly bigger volume, someone check my working
5mg in 2ml gives 2.5mg/ml, 0.25mg is 10 units. good for a starting dose
if you cannot read the mark confidently, your volume is too small. redo it at a lower concentration
i write the mg/ml on the vial with a sharpie the moment i reconstitute it, i could be wrong
if the maths gives you 13.7 units, change the volume. do not try to hit 13.7
one unit is 0.01ml. 100 units is 1ml. everything else in this channel follows from that
foam is bad