vitamin e

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A friend of my hubby's just mentioned to him that I should give the baby a capsule of vitamin e. What is this for? I do happen to have some that I use for me. What do you think?

-- Terri in NS (terri@tallships.ca), February 19, 2002

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Terri it is part of our management also. Over at saanendoah.com is an excellent new article on colostrum and what is and isn't passed from mom to kids. I just snip the end of a 300 IU capsule for people from Wallmart, and squish the contents into the mouth. Long story short, years back we had weak at 3 days, kids, lost some, no diagnosis, even though we were told about FKS. This was winter and FKS is usually in a wee bit older kids and summers here. Pipestone Vet Clinic in Minnesota actually disgnosed this as Nutritional Muscular Destrophy and since there is only a minute amount of E in Bo- se shots we started the adult does on E crumbles in their grain mix the last 50 days of pregnancy, and the E capsules for kids. Worked for us, so much so that now I am afraid to stop :) Vicki

-- Vicki McGaugh TX (vickilonesomedoe@hotmail.com), February 20, 2002.

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