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Originally Posted by marcerella02  Crystal I was hoping you'd see this 
the vet wants me to use this: HILARY'S BLEND supplement for home-made meals
but I can't find a list of ingredients- however it is meant for home cooking- which the one I am using is too.
She did not check for this- she sees that Layla has not lost weight (but again- we weren't actively working on that *embarrassed*), her nutritionist said Layla's diet was lacking iodine- she put two and two together and that is what she arrived at.
So you think i should just go with this new supplement?
Can I not weigh out .7mg of salt per pound of food? |
Well, I don't think it's that easy because you'd be giving her .7mg of salt, not .7mg of iodine since iodine is added to salt. Does that make sense? This is why I just hand all of these things over to Ellie's nutritionist because she has the program (and knowledge) to figure it out. I would be too afraid of making calculation errors.
I wouldn't rush into using the other supplement too quickly just because I have never heard of it. But it would concern me that a nutritionist has calculated all of this and found a lack of something.
But really just because it lacks iodine, I don't think it's that easy to say that she is overweight because of it. And if there has been an iodine deficiency and the vet is concerned about her weight because of it, then IMO she should be checking for thyroid problems.
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Originally Posted by marcerella02 crystal- would iodine be listed AS iodine on the list of ingredients or is it called something else? |
Ellie's supplement lists it as iodine, but if yours lists ingredeints instead of the breakdown of nutrients, then I'd think it could be under salt or sodium, but maybe I'm really missing something here.