by Pajarita » Fri Apr 01, 2016 12:50 pm
Well, the human daily dosage for liver damage is 800 to 1000 mg so, if one went by this and used the higher dosage -you always lose some when you crush and administer- a 270 gr bird would require 4 mg BUT dogs use higher dosages per weight than humans (I don't really know why but it's the same with other arthritis supplements -SAMe is good for many, many things: arthritis, heart conditions, liver and even the cognitive disorder that people call doggie Alzheimer (I give it to three of my dogs, too). Now the problem with SAMe is that is its instability so it's recommended that is given 1 hour prior food intake, that you don't crush the tablet and mix it with water, that you throw away the portion you don't use, etc. But, when I have new birds, I give it to all of them sprinkled on top of the gloop because giving it just to the new ones in their beak while giving methionine to the others is simply 100% impractical so I use a higher dosage to kind of balance out the normal degradation that occurs as it's mixed with food (I use part of one tablet for them and the other part split between three dogs, one with advanced doggie Alzheimer, another with liver malfunction due to old age and the other with epilepsy -the phenobarbital she takes affects the liver so I use it along with milk thistle and vit B6 to protect it and, so far it's working because her last bile acids still show normal function even though she is 17+ and has been taking pheno for over 10 years.
I know there is a liquid form of it so you might want to get that one and I would also ask your vet for a good dosage for her. I swear by SAMe - it has done wonders on my dogs!