Wrong Spoon Size Can Cause Medicine Mistakes

Wrong Spoon Size Can Cause Medicine Mistakes | LiveScience: "When pouring out doses of cold medicine, you may want to ditch the kitchen spoon for a more exact measuring device, a new study suggests. Depending on the spoon’s size, people tend to pour too little or too much.

The study involved 195 university students who were asked to pour a teaspoon (5 mL) of liquid medicine into a medium-sized spoon and a large spoon. To give them a better understanding of the volume of a teaspoon, the researchers had students measure out the medicine first in an actual teaspoon before trying it out in the other two spoons."