These snails grow up to 10 mm per month. After 6 months, the Achatina fulica is about 35 mm long and may already be sexually mature. Sexual maturity takes 6 to 16 months, depending on the weather and the availability of calcium. This snail lives 5 or 6 years, sometimes as many as 9 years.
How to Use the Dose Pack. A Medrol Dose Pack contains 21 4-milligram pills that last for six days. The patient starts with six pills (24 milligrams) and takes one fewer each day, until the pack is finished. The pills are taken orally with a full glass of water before breakfast, after lunch, after dinner and at bedtime (according to the day).
Medrol is also used to treat severe allergic reactions and chronic skin conditions. Medrol is available as 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32 mg tablets. Medrol is also available as an injectable solution: 20, 40, and 80 mg/ml. While Medrol can be prescribed at various daily doses or as alternate day therapy, the typical Medrol dosepak is marketed as 4 mg tablets given over 6 days in decreasing dosages. Directions for the Medrol dosepak are: Day 1: 2 tablets before breakfast, 1 tablet after lunch, 1 tablet after dinner, 2 tablets at bedtime.