"""""Most drug dosages are measured by*weight*in grams, milligrams or micrograms; however certain special drugs have other metric units that measure properties other than weight:
International Units*(units): International Units, often just referred to as Units, are used to measure the power or action of a drug. The volume or weight of a Unit will vary from drug to drug; for example, in penicillin, which is an antibiotic, a substance which kills bacteria, the ability of the antibiotic is measured by it's power to kill bacteria. If one kind of penicillin is mixed so that 1 mL contains 200,000 U and another kind of penicillin is mixed so that 1 mL contains 1,000,000 Units, the second drug has five times more bacteria-fighting power than the first drug, even though one mL of each has the same volume.
Drugs such as*insulin,*penicillin, and*heparin, all of which we will encounter in this course, are all measured in Units; vitamins, hormones, and blood products in general are also often measured in units. However, it is very important to note that the*volume or weight of a Unit of insulin is usually very different*from a*Unit of penicillinor a*Unit of heparin. So while 1 mL of insulin may have 100 Units of insulin in it, 1 mL of heparin may have 10,000 Units of heparin in it!"""
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