What is Vitamin K

What is vitamin K and its role in canine nutrition and health. One of the most important uses of vitamin K is to treat dogs, cats and humans been eaten (by mistake) anticoagulant poison used against mice or rats.

This intoxication can indeed be at very serious and life threatening situation so it is not strange that this is the first you probably where thinking of.

You could also have been thinking of Menadione. Menadione is a synthetic vitamin K precursor and found in many dog foods. This use is controversial and might not be needed at all.

For you to have the question -- What is vitamin K? -- answerer I have made these articles below:

Types of Vitamin K

First of all it is important to realize that there is different types of this vitamin. Some are found in plants others in the gut of dogs and some synthetic ones as well. In the article Types of Vitamin K you find information about the different classes.

Use of Vitamin K as Rat Poison Treatment

In the next article Vitamin K Coumadin you can find information about vitamin K and its role in the treatment of intoxications.

If you have had a dog bleeding and hemorrhaging because of this toxin you know how important it is to know about more about this to avoid this situation.The simplest anticoagulant poison is Warfarin. Warfarin is belonging to the group of 4-Hydroxycoumarin as they are all coming from coumarin.

Coumarin it self doesn't have any anticoagulant properties but by transformation of coumadin to dikumarol and further to its synthetic derivative warfarin you get this effect. Couma-din is not to be confused of couma-rin. Coumadin is one of the trade names of warfarin and coumarin is the precursor of many anticoagulants.

Menadion in Dog Food

In the article about Menadione in Dog Food I explain the arguments for and against the supplementation of menadione. Menadione might not be that toxic in the amounts present in the food, but I still think you should avoid dog food containing supplemented menadione.

Foods High in Vitamin K

The article about Foods High in Vitamin K explaining how you can add extra vitamin K in your dogs diet. Not using tablets but using food. Which foods contain most vitamin K? How to prepare the food? This is some of the questions you can find information about.