Guest guest Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 Anyone know how many iu (international units) to an mg (milligram) or vice versa? Carol A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 This was posted to the conversion site that I use. Guess there's no easy way: ============================================ 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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