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Canine Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia (AIHA & IMHA) - what dose of milk thistle
| can anyone advise me on how many drops of milk thistle tincture to give amy,she's 18kg. thanks to all my new friends for their wonderful support,amy seems to be picking up a little at the moment.back to the vets monday,will update then. best wishes. john&amy. |
| john & amy teesside |
| I've often heard that this product is great but have never used it myself. Is this Herbpharm milk thistle tincture? This product is basically milk thistle that was distilled in alsohol so it probably has an alcohol"y" smell to it...does it? What are the adult dosage recommendations on the bottle? If it has a dropper with it then I'd start low with maybe half a dropper full twice daily with food. (or maybe 10-20% of the recommended Adult dosage for humans). Add a litte more each day until you get up to maybe 2 full dropper fulls daily....take a couple weeks or so to get to this level. NOW, 2 full dropper fulls is quite a bit for a dog this side but from what I hear it's perfectly safe. Usually I'd recommend starting at the normal adult dosage for humans but others on here do differently. Here's a site with milk thistle dosage guildlines....maybe this will help. Read down to the bottom of the page....for a dog Amy's size it says 30% of the recommended adult human dose. This is from Dr. Dodds so it's all good info. http://www.canine-epilepsy-guardian-angels.com/liver_diet.htm Good Luck, Johnny & Tessy |
| Johnny |
| I never used it so can't help there, just wanted to say I was pleased to read that you are seeing improvements in your doggy. Penny |
| Penny Lytle Creek Calif |
| johnny.we exchanged the tincture for pills and have started on 1/4 of the adult dose we also give a b complex {we can't get pet-tinic here in the 51st state but we have a cure all called marmite.] penny.thanks for your kind words,the improvements, are continuing, touch wood,with a pcv increase of 8 points in the last 5 days. keep the faith. best wishes.john&amy. |
| john teesside uk |
| John, I was not able to get petinic here either. It is available on the internet though. After contacting Dr. Dodds, she recommended giving Vitamin B12, iron and folic acid. These are the ingredients of petinic. For my 60 lbs dog it was 250mg B12, 150mg iron and 5mg folic acid (i think i remember correctly) I would highly recommend you contact Dr. Dodds too or have your vet do it. She is always willing to give advice. Best wishes, Brigitte |
| Brigitte BC Canada |
| thanks brigitte.i'll look it up. best wishes.john |
| john teesside uk |
| Sorry, I forgot to mention , don't give your dog anything, not even vitamins, without talking it over with your vet! |
| Brigitte BC Canada |
| Yeah, you can order in online form lots of different places. I order mine from Allivet.com and they DO ship to the United Kingdom! |
| Johnny |
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