Submitted 2 hours ago by 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world to [deleted]
Unsure how long to keep giving my cat antibiotics, the vet prescribed them last monday saying give them for a week, so the cat has had the drug 7 times now. Do I give one more dose tomorrow or is the week done?
Is monday-monday [Monday, Monday] or [Monday, Monday)?
Who here recalls the weightlifting forum meltdown over how frequently one could train “every other day?” Obligatory watch.
My first thought.
Usually seven days, but the vet may want you to use up all of the medication rather than going by the calendar.
If it’s liquid, often they give you way too much, cause it’s hard to measure it out correctly, and they often give you a whole bottle regardless of how many doses you need.
If it’s pills, you usually get the exact amount.
Yup, it’s liquid. I still have quite a bit of it left
Monday is the first day to take it.
Sunday is the 7th day to take it.
A week is seven days.
If you take it again on the 2nd Monday, you’re starting a second week.
Ah, you beat me to it.
7 times. The week is done.
(The dates are examples.)
I just recently had this discussion with a colleague when I was creating a sentencing plan for a person sentenced to probation with six months rehab. I had written January 1st to June 30th and my colleague questioned that. They said it should be July 1st. I explained to them that if I had written July 1st, I would’ve been reprimanded, possibly hanged out on extremist vigilante forums or, in the worst case, fired, since then I would have said that the obligatory rehab should last six months and a day, which it is not. It is six months.
If you give the medicine from Monday (January 1st above) to Monday (July 1st above), you are giving the medicine for one week and a day.
The number sets have names that are reflective of that. Whole numbers are positive integers and 0 while natural numbers are only positive integers. You never see 0 cats, and the number of places where the number of cats is 0 is infinite (or approaching the number of places in the universe). Neither of those are really natural (not unlike cats) and are particularly hard to explain to younger people.
WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 42 minutes ago
If you’re concerned, the correct answer is to listen to none of the advice here and check with the vet.