not to butt in here but you can get Vitamin C in powder form? did I read that
correctly? And its daily right?
Thank you, kristi
>
> From: Gloria Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2005/06/12 Sun PM 07:40:47 EDT
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Vitamin C questions
>
> Hey there Del! Good point - absolutely, it can cause diarrhea in
> animals and in people. If so, you back off of the quantity a little,
> and keep doing that till no diarrhea.
>
> I take it regularly too, not Belfields though, I take Rainbow Light
> Powder. The bottle of Belfields Vit C has directions - but they're
> downstairs, and I can't remember what it says. But in general, I've
> always used about 200-500mg daily (if I can get disciplined enough to
> do daily). Start low, even lower than that if you wish, and build up.
>
> Dr. Belfield is the vet who says that he's had FELV+ cats go negative
> after several months of the Vit C therapy. Well my # of cats
> increased, and my discipline decreased, so I stopped the vitamin C to
> adjust myself for a while. Have to start it back up.
>
> Seems like it was Dr. Pitcairn's book that said, for upper
> respiratory infections, to give 250 mg Vit C, plus 250mg Lysine twice
> daily. I used to do that for Lucy, and it worked well - she died in
> 2001, I think.
>
> Gloria
>
>
> On Jun 11, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Del Daniels wrote:
>
> > I understand Vitamin C can cause diarrhea in cats ... what is a
> > starting mg to hopefully avoid that side effect ... and how gradual
> > can it be increased ... and the maximum dose during an URI?
> >
> > Del
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Gloria Lane
> > To: [email protected]
> > Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 4:40 PM
> > Subject: Re: Supplements - Grace
> >
> > Go to http://www.belfield.com/home.html and click on the "magazine"
> > link. He has links for "products" and that's where they are.
> >
> > Gloria
> >
> >
> > On Jun 11, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Nina wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks Gloria, do you know if the B complex liquid was really
> > > unpleasant tasting? I like to sup my IBD cat Gypsy with B and it
> > > tastes so awful that she won't eat anything it's mixed in. I do
> > > have the injectable, but I hate the shots as much as she does. Can
> > > I find the sups your talking about by doing a Goggle search on the
> > > Drs' names?
> > > Nina
> > >
> > > Gloria B. Lane wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> I ordered Belfield's Vitamin C, which is actually a combination of
> > >> C with other nutrients. And ordered his B complex liquid-
> > >> initially to try with a friends Diabetic cat, but haven't done
> > >> that. I use PetTinic, but it has a bunch of sugar in it.
> > >>
> > >> Also ordered a liquid supplement form Dr. elfield, and used it
> > >> with a cat (Harry, who's with Susan now) that had stomatitis
> > >> (sp). Actually, gave him that, plus interferon, plus lysine.
> > >> Something helped, he got better.
> > >>
> > >> Gloria
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> At 10:44 AM 6/11/2005, you wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> What did you order, and what is it suppose to help with?
> > >>> N
> > >>>
> > >>> Gloria B. Lane wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> Right, those are the sups I use, except I've ordered some
> > >>>> laterly from Dr. Belfield. It gets hard to give lots of
> > >>>> supplements, sometimes.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Gloria
> > >>>>
> > >>>> At 10:01 AM 6/11/2005, you wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> Hi Gloria,
> > >>>>> Yes, I use Lysine on a regular basis. I used to give it every
> > >>>>> day, along with Vita C, and Co-Q10. Now I just add supplements
> > >>>>> periodically, or when there's a hint of a symptom. Everyone's
> > >>>>> been getting sups lately, along with Transfer Factor, stress
> > >>>>> formula. I'm out of Interferon A, I usually put them on that
> > >>>>> when they have symptoms too. I do have some VO in the box, I
> > >>>>> may start her on that.
> > >>>>> Nina
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
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