Hey Laura, I would really support treating early on before symptoms start. Once you start having problems they go downhill fast and it is heartbreaking to watch. The injections seem to help even once symptoms start, but the longer you wait the harder it is to treat because so many other things can happen. You have to fight the anemia, the anorexia, the secondary infections and potentially leukemia, lymphoma or sarcoma. LTCI has very few side effects. I have an email from Imulan that gives the number for your vet to call if they would like more information. Let me see what other things I have and I will forward them.
With respect to LTCI and interferon in combination, I know it is being used by some in this group. I am not aware of a drug interaction. They do recommend not using prednisone in combination with LTCI as it depresses the effect. That is the only medication that I recall being cautioned about. I will check. Jenny On 11/22/09, LauraM <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
