But what about young children? How does this information apply to your little ones?
There are several dosing equations that can help us out.
The first, called Fried’s Rule of dosing takes the child’s age in months, divided by 150, then multiplied by the adult dose. Clark’s Rule is similar and requires the child’s weight in pounds, divided by 150, then multiplied by the adult dose.So for example, let’s say we have an average sized, 70 pound 10 year old child. This child’s upper limit of daily alcohol will probably be around 600 drops a day based on the 15-17 year old suggestion above. Using Clark’s Rule dosing formula and the average adult’s 30 drop tincture dosage, the child’s dosage would end up at 14 drops of tincture for each dose, that puts them just under 3% of what would be estimated as the absolute max for their body a day.