Metabolic
Glucagon
Also called GlucaGen, Baqsimi
per administration
A human trial worked out how much to take and how often, so a dosing schedule is shown.
Licensed as a medicine in the US and EU.
Quick start
Glucagon at a glance — the figures, plus how it's commonly run. Reference only, not medical advice.
- Typical dose
- 0.5–1 mg per administration
- How often
- Once a week
- Where
- Subcutaneous — abdomen, thigh, or upper arm Sites and rotation
- Time to steady level
- ~1 hours — about five half-lives
- Storage
- Dry vial kept cold and dark; a mixed vial in the fridge at 2–8 °C. Details
A research and community reference, not medical advice. Figures are descriptive, vary between sources, and are not a recommendation for use.
Work out your draw
These numbers are a starting point — change any of them.
Vial label
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Published research contexts for Glucagon describe 0.5–1 mg per administration. Descriptive only, not a recommendation.
Roughly 8–18 minutes in plasma; a single dose that clears rather than accumulates.
A licensed medicine given as a single rescue dose to raise blood glucose (also given intramuscularly or as a nasal powder), not on a repeating schedule. Because it is a one-time rescue agent rather than a scheduled compound, no schedule table is shown.
Modelled level — once a week
1× is the peak after a single dose.
- Steady-state peak
- 0.91× single dose
- Time to steady state
- 1hours
- Administrations
- 1/ week
Read off the modelled curve, not an even-interval formula
About five half-lives
Where these numbers come from
- Glucagon (GlucaGen, Baqsimi) labelLicensed as a single rescue dose to raise blood glucose; given subcutaneously, intramuscularly or as a nasal powder, not on a schedule.