@Smokin Joe Thank you! I just printed that out and put it on my fridge.
Remember, the dose is weight based. A standard clinical dose is 0.2 milligrams per kilogram of body weight.
In my case, I weigh 220 lbs, which is 100 kilograms, (That made calculations easy).
20 milligrams is the standard therapeutic dosage for someone of my body weight.
Too much, and I'd risk adverse effects, less than that, and I'd still see some benefit, so I erred on the low side and after calculations took a single dose of the 1.87% paste for a 200 lb critter.
Here was what I figured for me:
Product net weight is 6.08 grams (6,080 milligrams) times .0187 (1.87% expressed as a decimal fraction). gives 113.696 total milligrams of Ivermectin in the product.
The tube is graduated in weight in pounds, up to 1250 lbs for the total dose in the tube.
Dividing 113.696 by 1250 gives the result of 0.0909568 milligrams per pound of graduation on the plunger, which, set at 200 lbs. (multiply 0.0909568 milligrams per pound times the number of pounds I weigh) gives 18.19136 milligrams of Ivermectin. (Close enough to the standard dosage for my weight at 220 lbs, and nearly spot on for the standard, ideal, clinical dosage for a 200 lb human which would be 18.18 milligrams).
Using those calculations, I took the dose for a 200 lb animal, once on each of the first and third days, with one 50 mg zinc supplement at the same time, another later in the day and 2000mg of Vitamin C, split into two 1000mg doses. spread apart with the zinc. I also drank a lot of water, including a 20 oz bottle with the ivermectin paste.