Vitamin B Deficiency Benefits of vitamin C & vitamin D
What is B Vitamin and Vitamin B12 facts?
Vitamin B deficiency and dog health is tightly connected. Lowered Vit. B levels seen in intestinal diseases is well known and cobalamin injections can greatly help your dog.
Vitamin B is not only one vitamin. The complexity of different vitamin B can be difficult to understand as not all of them is important in veterinary medicine.
The main ones are:
Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)
Niacin
Vitamin B5 (Panathenaic Acid)
Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)
Biotin
Folic Acid
Vitamin B 12 (Cyanocobalamin or Calamine)
The two most important in veterinary medicine is undoubtedly Folic Acid and Vitamin B12 (also called Cobalamine).
Most Common Signs of vitamin B Deficiency:
Loss of appetite
Diarrhea
Weight loss
Skin lesions
Dry skin
Eye abnormalities
In intestinal disease, these two can change and most often vitamin B deficiency is the same as deficiency of Vitamin B12.
Folic acid can sometimes get too low as well or sometimes to high. The latter, because of bacterial over growth and the following bacterial overproduction of Folic Acid.
In this case, the abnormal blood levels of Folic Acid would be a sign of abnormal gut bacterial flora and increased bacterial numbers. Not a primary sign of disease on its own.
Sometimes diarrhea is difficult, sometimes easy to resolve. Vitamin b can be an aid in the diagnosis.
Vitamin B Related Information
Facts About vitamin B: Here you can find more information about vitamin B. If you would like more information about digestion and vitamin B,
this is where to find it. How much is recommended in dog food and which food to avoid if you would like to maximize the food content of vitamin B in order to avoid vitamin B deficiency?
You also learn if vitamin deficiency always can be dealt with by supplementation in the food.
What Does Vitamin B12 Do in the Body: Do you know why a complaint deficiency is bad for your dog’s body?
If not this is to look to find out. As you will find out vitamin B is so important in many of the body reactions and the building and maintenance of the cells.
Vitamin B12 Shots: You’ll learn all about this important treatment here. How, Why, For how long time and in which intestinal diseases you need to think about complain injections.
Facts on Vitamin looking for facts on vitamin C? Here you will find the facts about vitamin C and learn about the possible health benefits of using it in dogs.
Vitamin C is one of the most discussed vitamins. A bit strange, because dogs actually can make the vitamin themselves. So, why supplement it?
Because of the possible health benefits, vitamin C possesses. It is important in areas of the body where pain can be a problem.
One of the most important facts about vitamin C is its role in building and stabilization of connective tissue.
Vitamin C Info:
Vitamin C is one of the water-soluble vitamins
Dogs can produce some amounts in their body
The dog vitamin C is also called “Calcium acerbate”
Used in some dog food as an anti-oxidant (preservative)
Antioxidant properties in the body as well
Dosage is around 10 mg/kg BID
Connective tissue is the dog body’s mini skeleton. You can’t see directly without a microscope like the “real” bones. But it’s a fundamental part of the body and life was not possible without it.
C vitamin strengthens in the connective tissue.
Pain in old dogs, or pain in dogs having joint problems is painful to see. All we want to do is to help them.
One of the health benefits of vitamin C is its possible pain-relieving properties in dogs having painful and hurting joints. Names Related To Death
Yes, dogs do produce ascorbic acid, but if the need exceeds the production supplementation can benefit.
Most important the toxicity risks are very low.
Vitamin C Benefits
In this chapter, I discuss why this vitamin is used especially in dogs having hip dysplasia.
You can see an x-ray of a hip dysplasia dog, and I’ll explain in detail how ascorbic acid can work on the hip joint.
All this you will find Here
Vitamin C For Dogs
There are different types of vitamin C and some is better that others to use in dogs. If you are thinking of supplementing Vit. C this is where to look before decide which type to buy.
Powered or tablets. Shall I get ascorbic palmitate or Ester vitamin C?
You find all this on the page vitamin C For Dogs
Facts About vitamin C
There is more to vitamin C than touched on this page. In this article I’ll explain in bigger detail all the functions of ascorbic acid in the body.
Also explained is the fact why dogs may have some benefit even if they produce the vitamin themselves.
You find more C Vitamin facts Here
Vitamin C Side Effects
Even if the toxicity is very low there are situations where you should avoid use of this vitamin.
The article, vitamin C Side Effects explains when to use it and when to avoid its use.
Vitamin d is important and the benefits of vitamin D is many. But perhaps not if you give it as vitamin D supplement.
Too much or too little of this hormone-like vitamin can cause trouble in your dogs health. Especially if used wrong in growing pups.
Not all pups are alike, so it’s especially the big and fast-growing dogs you have to very careful about regarding vitamin D supplements.
This is one of the questions you can find the answer to on the resource page on vitamin D in dog nutrition
Benefits of vitamin D in History
For many years the cause of Rickets in man has been studied. But it was only about 100 years ago the cause was found, isolated, and named.
Sir Edward Mellanby did studies on dogs raised indoors in the early twenties. He came to the conclusion that rickets was caused by a deficiency in the diet.
He also found out cod liver oil was able to minimize the risks of rickets.
And indeed one of the vitamin D benefits is to protect against rickets both in men and dogs.
In the mid-twenties it was discovered in humans that radiated with UV light could produce “a substance similar to fat-soluble vitamin” and then 10 years later the chemical structure of vitamin D2 was discovered.
where you will find out about the different kinds of vitamin D. You will find out why there is a Vitamin D2 and a Vitamin D3 and other short facts about the vitamin D benefits in dog nutrition.
Vitamin D Metabolism in Dogs
In this article, I will describe how the absorption of vitamin D in dogs take place. How is vitamin D regulated and stored is important as well and will be touched as well.
If you want a birds-eye view on vitamin D Metabolism in Dogs this is where you find it.
Foods High in vitamin D
If you would like to be sure to give enough vitamin D to your dog naturally. Where do you find calciferous the most and what about the sunlight in dogs?
Before you decide to give any vitamin D supplements read Foods High in vitamin D
Vitamin D Deficiency
Yes I know–right spelled as “deficiency” but, if not enough vitamin in the food, what then?
Vitamin D Deficiency is the soft version and not that medical.
Skin Production of vitamin D in Dogs
Can dogs produce vitamin D in their skin like humans? Many think so and see sunlight as being important for their dogs health.
Now we know that dogs can’t produce vitamin D and you can find out this can be here om the Skin Production of vitamin D in Dogs page.
Vitamin D Deficiency Symptoms Osteomalacia and rickets in dogs. You will get useful information here about the symptoms and what you should be looking after.
Can vitamin D deficiency cause fractures? Can it be corrected without any permanent harm done? This is some questions you find information about on the vitamin D Deficiency Symptoms page
Vitamin D and Calcium
You can’t think about vitamin D without getting calcium on your mind to. You can see how they relate to each other in the vitamin D and Calcium article.
Vitamin D and Immunity
You can read about this and why vitamin D can be important in the protection of Kennel Cough in dogs in the vitamin D and Immunity article.
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