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: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
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:
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>> 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
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>> At 10:44 AM 6/11/2005, you wrote:
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>>> What did you order, and what is it suppose to help with?
>>> N
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>>> Gloria B. Lane wrote:
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>>>> 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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