"ME" is the reduced designation of the "international unit" (International Unit - IU) applied in pharmacology to measurement of biological activity of substances (the vitamins, vaccines, hormones making blood, etc.). It defines how many micrograms of any given substance correspond to conventional unit of biological activity. Unlike absolute majority of other units, this size for various substances is not calculated on the basis of formulas, and are established by one organization - Committee of biological standardization at World Health Organization.
Instruction
1. Transfer the known number of the international units (IU) at first to milligrams - in these units the amount of substance is most often measured in pharmacology. As this size depends on what substance from the list of Committee of biological standardization interests you, it is necessary to find the weight proportion established to it in documents of the organization on its website - http://www.who.int/bloodproducts/catalogue/en/index.html.
2. There is an opportunity to entrust recalculation of the international units in milligrams to any online service. For example, to that which is placed on the http://www.uapf.com.ua/iu.php page. Having passed to the page of the online converter, enter value into ME in the field "Size" and then choose in the drop-down list placed in the column "Substance", the name of your medicine. After pressing the Convert button the script placed on this page will make calculations and will show result. It can look, for example, so: "Kapreomitsin of 100 ME (IU) = 0.10870 mg (mg)".
3. Count the received value from milligrams in milliliters. The substance volume which depends on its density and concentration is measured in milliliters. It is possible to learn compliance of weight and volume for concrete medicine from the corresponding inscription on its packing. If there is no such inscription, then it is better to consult in any medical institution.
4. Multiply the value received on the second step in milligrams on the compliance defined in the third step between weight and volume measures of substance necessary to you. It is possible to use for this purpose the standard program calculator of the Windows operating system which is started by pressing of a combination of the keys win + r to the subsequent input of the calc team and pressing of the Enter key.