Is she showing symptoms? Just wondering why your vet gave her 1 year to live.
You might check into Dr. Belfield's Vitamin C therapy (www.belfield.com) and also into interferon therapy (both human interferon, interferon alpha - and the harder to get feline interferon, interferon omega).
I had 3 kitties with FELV (one was FIV/FELV). The 2 FELV kittens (Calawalla and MIttens) lived to 2.5-3 yrs. The other, an adult cat, was badly malnourished and lived a year (Mr. Black Kitty). They were all very close to my heart!
I have two now - Dallas and Houston - they're maybe 2 yrs old, and I give them 30 units of human interferon daily. It's supposed to help keep the immune systems up and keep the virus from mutating (if that's the word) into a different subgroup / strain. This quote is from a previous message,ased on the Merck web site:
>There are three main FeLV subgroups of clinical importance. Subgroup A >viruses are found in all naturally infected cats. FeLV-A, the original, >archetypical form of the virus, is efficiently transmitted among cats. >FeLV-A viruses tend to be less pathogenic than viruses of the other >subgroups, but some strains cause severe immunosuppression. Almost all >naturally infected cats are originally infected by FeLV-A. Within the >infected cat, FeLV-A is sometimes altered to produce FeLV-B and FeLV-C >viruses. FeLV-B is found in ~50% of naturally infected cats, along with >FeLV-A. The FeLV-A and FeLV-B together are more frequently associated with >neoplastic diseases than is FeLV-A alone. FeLV-C viruses are isolated from >only 1% of naturally infected cats, along with FeLV-A and sometimes both >FeLV-A and FeLV-B. The presence of FeLV-C in an infected cat is strongly >associated with the development of erythroid hypoplasia and consequent >severe anemia. Viruses of all three subgroups are detected (but cannot be >distinguished) by commonly used FeLV diagnostic test kits. Best of luck, Gloria At 11:53 AM 8/21/2005, you wrote:
My cat Misty has just been diagnosed by my vet as positive for feline leukaemia and the vet has told me that there are no real treatments for this condition and that now she has been positively diagnosed she is unlikely to live longer than a year. I have looked through at various sites and am totally confused by the amount of information out there, HELP!!! Can anyone give me any no nonsense advice with regard to holistic treatment availability or indeed any advice. I have been looking at Willard's water and colloidal silver. Does anyone have any information on these or anything that might help her, she is only approximately two years old and I have only had her for six months as she was abandoned by her previous owner.
