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Does medicine prescribed every 4 hours means in a 12 hour day or a 24 hour day?
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∙ 13y ago
It depends on the amount of the medication - If the medication is in higher dosages it may mean you can take only one tab every 4 hours up to 12 hours. Meaning you can only take the dosage 4 times. If its a lower dose you may be called to take it every 4 hours for 24 hours.
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∙ 13y ago
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What does Q12 mean?
It means that a patient will be taking the prescribed dose of their medicine once every twelve hours. Q signifies once and the number following tells the number of hours between each dose. For example medicine prescribes Q6 would be taken once every 6 hours.
What is 4 times a day?
Usually, breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and bedtime. Otherwise, the medicine would say every six hours which means you'd have to take it 24 hours a day.
Can not taking meds for seizures make you have mores seizures?
If the medicine was prescribed to reduce the occurrence of seizures then failing to take the medicine means that a seizure is more likely to occur than if you took the medicine.
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it means in medical terms, every three hours
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Q or q means "every" or "each"q.d. means "every day"
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It means every 12 hours
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