Taking Smokey to the vet to get ImmunoRegulin through an IV is just not a good option for me. Smokey really stresses out at the vet. He hisses and is just really unpleasant. I have found that if they do everything in the examination room where I can be with him he does somewhat better. I will ask my vet about the complications of giving him the immunoregulin subq though. Thanks for the info.
Cindy Reasoner --- Lance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last Spring, when Ember first tested positive for > FeLV, I started > looking into treatment options. ImmunoRegulin came > up, so I spoke to > my vet about it. I asked him if we could do it > sub-q, and he > recommended that we not. At that time, I wasn't > ready to give IR a > shot, so I didn't pay good attention to his reasons > for not wanting > to do IR sub-q (something about proteins and > something...). > > Anyway, IR has come back up, and Nina encouraged me > to find out what > my vet thought about sub-q IR and let everyone know. > This will all be > paraphrased, since I didn't ask him to write it > down. :) As well, I > may not be giving you the full picture. It was a > small part of my > conversation with him. > My vet started off by saying we don't understand > fibrosarcomas in > cats very well. He went on to explain that IR is > protein-rich and > that, putting that into the skin, he's afraid > there's a risk of > fibrosarcoma popping up down the road, as it does > with some > vaccinations. I think he feels that it may not be > dispersed out of > the injection site well enough. > > These are just his thoughts, and I don't think he'd > be surprised to > hear that none of the cats who have had IR sub-q > have turned up site > sarcomas so far. He's being cautious. Another > downside to sub-q IR is > that the IR just doesn't reach everywhere it can > with an IV. I've > seen this point made on the web other places. > > I hope this is food for thought, and is something to > talk to your own > vet about when deciding how to give IR. I certainly > don't mean to > worry anyone who has already done IR sub-q. Just > wanted to report > back what my own vet thinks. I really trust him, > and, should we have > to go the IR route, I think I'll take Ember to the > clinic. > > > Lance > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Low, Low, Low Rates! Check out Yahoo! Messenger's cheap PC-to-Phone call rates (http://voice.yahoo.com)
