2008/11/25 Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com>om>:
I'm not sure that keeping the dosage information
has much beneficial
impact - on the one hand you discourage self-medicating, but on the
other you don't tell people what the maximum dosage is, and that
information might be crucial if they are in fact self-medicating.
In [all senses of the word] practice, doctors treating the public will
prescribe wildly varying dosages. We would do better to state the
range of dosages referred to in peer-reviewed medical journals rather
than trying to establish what is or isn't "ideal" based on what any
practitioners say, or what the fine print of the adverts say, or what
the Rx receipts you peel off your car in the parking lot of Wal-Mart
say, or what any other data released on the commercial end says.
If this standard proves too difficult or if the stuff is available
over-the-counter (i.e. self-prescribed), I would feel most comfortable
to list the LD50 and be done with it.
If this sounds crass don't worry, I have reasons for which I avoid
editing articles related to medicine (somebody will say "such as
ignorance" I know—they can go to hell in advance).
—C.W.