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This was posted to the conversion site that I use. Guess there's no easy way:

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IU stands for International Units and is used for the measurement of drugs and

vitamins.

Webster's defines IU as: a quantity of a biologic (such as a vitamin) that

produces a particular biological effect agreed upon as an international standard

What this means is that IU is dependent on the potency of the substance, and

each substance would have a different IU to milligram conversion. For example,

1000 IU of Vitamin C would have a different weight than 1000 IU of Vitamin A

Since each substance would have a different conversion ratio, we cannot put up a

conversion for IU to milligrams that covers everything, or even most things.

Just too many different substances.

So what can you do?

Your best bet would be to contact your pharmacist. They have all the information

anyone could ever want about drugs and vitamins.

You could also contact the manufacturer of the vitamin. Most manufactures will

have a web site with contact information so you can email them. Try searching

the web using the manufactures name or the name of the vitamin.

tuesdynite@... wrote:

Anyone know how many iu (international units) to an mg (milligram) or vice

versa?

Carol A

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