If I am supposed to take 800 miligrams of medicene how many tablespoon is that?

,8 gram (800 milligrams) equals .02821917 ounce.There’s roughly half an ounce in one T. You’re on your own for the next step. (medicine)

Milligrams are a weight measurement. Tablespoons are a volume measurement, so that’s two different types of measurements.

A tablespoon of Pepto Bismol® for example, weighs more than a tablespoon of water.

Call your pharmacy, tell the pharmacist what medicine you’ve got, and the pharmacist there would know how many tablespoons that would be.

Your meds should say on the bottle how many mg per ml there are. From there you should be able to figure it out (or if you can’t, post it here and we’ll help with the converting!).

What kind of medicine do you take by tablespoon? I have never seen meds measured that way. Teaspoon is a common measure, though, or used to be.

Are you sure it’s milligrams (mg) and not milliliters (ml)?

@Jeruba 800mL is a lot of liquid (as in several cups), so, while I definitely agree it’s strange to measure a liquid medicine in mg instead of teaspoons, I don’t think that’s it…

4000 milligrams equal one level tsp.
One teaspoon would be 5 doses.
Careful there Druggie McDoodle :)

Yes, @fireinthepriory. I just thought the whole Rx sounded strange. I think this questioner needs to get some clarifying information from his or her doctor or pharmacist.

I’d call your pharmacy. If it’s that weirdly labeled, I’d be concerned that they gave me the wrong prescription.

Please don’t mess around with this if you don’t know the correct dosing. If you provide us with the information on the side of the bottle, we can do the calculation for you. Typically, it will say something like 400 milligrams/tablespoon, in which case it would be 2 tablespoons (800 mg/400 mg per tablespoon = 2 tablespoons). Note, mg is the shorthand for milligram.

Thanks so much all of you. It was 2 tablespoons. Thanks for everyones input.

@shilolo
In other words it’s the amount of active ingredient in the substance?

@SeventhSense Yes. I guestimated correctly based on experience (I might even guess the drug…) In essence, it is the concentration (active ingredient in moles or milligrams/volume) of the medicine that matters, just like a pill can have different doses in the same size pill.