I'm just wondering why some B12 ampoules of 1 mg are offered in different amounts of solution . Is there a particular advantage or disadvantage with either?
2ml or 1 ml solution? : I'm just... - Pernicious Anaemi...
2ml or 1 ml solution?
I sort of asked that below and was told some are a mix of solution and water or saline... Hope you get an answer 😊
Not quite right. B12 is manufactured as a crystalline powder which is dissolved in water so it can be injected and different manufacturers, for whatever reason, dissolve it in different amounts of water. Various concentrations are available e.g. 1mg/1ml, 1mg/2ml, 1.5mg/1ml, 5mg/1ml etc.
I've never come across any research into the various concentrations. I use hydroxo, mainly in 1mg/2ml concentration which I find slightly more comfortable for intramuscular injection than 1mg/1ml.
I'd be surprised if any of them were in plain water. Saline is much kinder to the body.
Great you answered... I knew it was something like that I just couldn't recall accurately...😊
Hydroxocobalamin comes as hydroxocobalamin acetate. It is dissolved in water along with sodium chloride, acetic acid and/or sodium hydroxide. Here, UK, it is typically 1mg in 1 ml. In parts of Europe it is typically 1 ml in 2 ml.
In other words (I joke a tiny bit), it is dissolved in a solution of salt and vinegar and/or violent cleaning stuff. Very good for your fish and chips and/or cleaning the sink. Trouble is that the 1 mg in 2 ml contains so much more salt and vinegar that it stings like hell, so I am grateful that I get the 1 mg in 1 ml and I am astonished that Engels prefers 1 mg in 2 ml. But some people like sugar in their tea, others do not. Each to their own. But I speak after 28 years of fortnightly injections, so I am an "expert" - or just old, as the case may be.
So, seriously, the only advantage to me, and others might differ, is that the less the quantity for the same dose, the easier it is to inject and the less the discomfort. Part of the discomfort comes from the fact that it is an intramuscular injection. The injected fluid has to squeeze in between muscle fibres and splits them apart. The less one does that, one would suppose, the better. The main reason for 1 mg in larger than 1 ml amounts of solution is, I believe, the ease of manufacture.
I thought that I had sent you some Hydroxocobalamin I week ago with all the necessary . what happened. ?