On Mon, 6 May 2002 12:50:21 -0400 Beverly Erlebacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 10:52:13 -0400
>
> If you havent tried or even if you have the CoEnzyme Q10 you can also try an
> Amino Acid ( Cysteine) not (Cystine) by making a thin paste of the powder and
> putting it on the lizards nose. Your gecko will lick it off and I have even
> mixed the CoQ10 and the Cysteine and have had very good results with them.
> Normally a couple treatments seems to get all stages of the worms. Let us
> know how it goes.
>
> Don ( not a vet) Wells
>Is anything known about why such a treatment >would work?
No - no one knows, and there is no medical documentation that it will. There is loads
of "info" on the use of CoQ10 for heart disease, AIDS, parasites, bacterial
infections, cancer etc., but precious little by way of documentation. It's claim to
fame is that it scavenges free-radicals. It is often billed as a wonder drug (To be
clear Don was not billing it as such - but others certainly do) but they have zippo
for data.
>These nutrients
>are common to all forms of life, back to the >Archaebacteria, AFAIK. Why
>would they be toxic to animals of several >unrelated phyla but not to
>vertebrates?
An excellent question
>I'm not saying they don't work, but I think it >would be interesting for
>someone to do some controlled studies to >establish that parasites are
>really being killed by this method, and what the >mechanism is.
There is little about these substabces that would reccomend them to such intense
scrutiny, and the cash to back it. The reality is that they (esp. CoQ10) are
sufficiently fringe that it might work against them.
> It's
>possible that the animals are recovering and >fighting off the parasites
>due to good supportive care.
My thoghts exactly. One also has to acertain the the methods by which the efficacy of
this combination was determined. Fecals being what they are in small lizards.
Keith "if it sounds too good to be true - it is" Benson
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