When you add Salmon oil to supplement Omega 3, your dog uses a significant amount of it's own vitamin E to process that oil, thus it is VERY important to supplement extra vitamin E, so they don't deplete it.
ohhh now i get it...hmmm, maybe that's why the brand of fish caps I bought has vit E incoporated into its mix...
Don't make the same mistake I did. I was using a human grade fish oil (fine for dogs), that said it was in a base of vitamin E. I ASSumed that there was enough vit E in there but there was not. No harm done, but when I checked the vit E amounts in the fish oil, I realized I still needed to supplement the E. There are dog specific oils with appropriate amounts of E in there perhaps.
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I see that Ed and Cindy say that 1600 IU is a good daily dosage for Vitamin E supplements. But over here in Estonia my bottle only has ml and mg. How many IU's are in a milligram or milliliter? Right now I'm giving my dog (started yesterday) 3 squirts of the salmon oil and 1 tsp of the vit. E oil, but I have no idea is the Vit E is too much or not enough. (my dog is 55 lbs)
Also - Vitamin C - Ed says to sprinkle the powder on the food daily, but I can't find where it says how much. I can't get powdered form here, only tablets, which my dog chews easily, but how much do I give her?
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I just read that you can't convert IU's to milligrams, because IU is the potency of the drug, not the weight amount. So if my bottle doesn't say how many IU's are in a tsp, how do I know how much to give?
What I have is NEO-E oil (cold-pressed wheat germ oil) from Finland. On the bottle it just says a human dosage is1 tsp a day which is also 5 ml or 10 mg.
(And the 1600 IU I mentioned above is for dogs with mange - this will help the skin - and my puppy has mange)
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I just read that you can't convert IU's to milligrams, because IU is the potency of the drug, not the weight amount. So if my bottle doesn't say how many IU's are in a tsp, how do I know how much to give?
What I have is NEO-E oil (cold-pressed wheat germ oil) from Finland. On the bottle it just says a human dosage is1 tsp a day which is also 5 ml or 10 mg.
(And the 1600 IU I mentioned above is for dogs with mange - this will help the skin - and my puppy has mange)
Here's the mathematical relationship between the two measures: one IU is 0.67 milligram of alpha-tocopherol.
To convert IUs of vitamin E into milligrams of alpha-tocopherol: multiply the number of IUs by 0.67.
To convert milligrams of alpha-tocopherol to IUs: multiply the number of milligrams by 1.5.
These conversions are for natural vitamin E, or d-alpha-tocopherol. For the synthetic form of the vitamin, called dl-alpha-tocopherol, the conversion factors are 0.45 and 2.2.
It's in the Q & A section in answer to the question about Demodectic mange (#40)
I'm not sure if I can get Ester C here. I've actually never heard of it aside from this website. I'll look. Is that better? This is a small country and pretty much every store has the same products. I went to 4 different pharmacies and they all had the same Vitamin C's. I got tablets of 500 mg each because I figured I could regulate the dosage better than the 1000 mg tablets.
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