Thanks Jenny. A few questions: Bridget is currently asymptomatic. Could - should - these treatments be used on asymptomatic cats? Would they be detrimental or would they simply have no benefit? And could any of them be used simultaneously with each other? I found some info online on LTCI and immunoregulin and I've printed it out to take to my vet. I'd appreciate any links to studies, info etc. that he might find useful. As for the tortoises - let's just say it's a learning experience for the cats. They have discovered the hard way that not all turtles are slow, and not all have gentle dispositions. Everybody generally gets along well, though. I'll never forget the day that Duncan, my first FeLV cat (he has since passed) met my big Burmese brown tortoises, who'd never seen a cat before. He stood in the center of their pen and just stared as several of the big guys approached, just as curious about him as he was about them. They all touched noses for just a moment, then went their separate ways. I would frequently find Duncan curled up around Jack, my deformed ornate box turtle. And Baby Girl loves to sleep in my hingeback tortoise pen. Laura
--- On Fri, 11/20/09, jbero tds.net <[email protected]> wrote: From: jbero tds.net <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Bridget - new positive kitten - questions about treatment To: [email protected] Date: Friday, November 20, 2009, 5:00 PM Laura, I am glad to hear your vet is willing to try something. It is so hard to watch these healthy young beautiful felv kittens and cats deteriorate so rapidly and die. The treatments I am aware of include interferon - an oral preparation most vets are familiar with and cheap, LTCI (an immunomodulator produced by Imulan, it is a subcutaneous injection - you can check their website and contact them or have your vet do so), Acemannan or ambotrose (either a intraperitoneal injection or oral supplement made by Mannetech I believe is their name you can google ambotrose). I have heard that early on in the disease high dose iv vitamin c can change viral status. Other holistic approaches/alternative meds include Wei Qi Booster (chinese herbal) and raw diet. There are other things out there, but I am not too familiar with them, a group A strep product (it's a bacterial derivative tried in the past with some success, but I haven't seen or heard much recently about it) You really have 50 pound tortoises, wow, that's something else. That is a world I am utterly unfamiliar with. Do they all get along? Well good luck and God bless. If you need any more specifics just let me know. Jenny _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
