Re: [Felvtalk] Gary - info on acemannan,etc

2010-04-16 Thread jbero tds.net
okay, I have been trying to send this but it's too big to go through so I copied and pasted onto a word document the abstracts of four articles relating to acemannan (or related polysaccharides and viral infections) These were really to answer the specific question of oral mannose versus IP

Re: [Felvtalk] New to the FELV+ kitty group

2010-04-16 Thread jbero tds.net
Stacy, Hi. I am sorry to hear you got a postive felv. I think it's a good idea to either retest with the elisa (snap test) or send for IFA. The ELISA can show you a transient infection (one in which your cat can fight off the virus and survive without complication) wherein the test will become

[Felvtalk] Possible therapy for felv

2010-04-16 Thread jbero tds.net
Okay, I am always questioning people that claim a cure, but here is a small study done that caused a man to patent the treatment concerning felv. This a group dedicated to looking into any avenue that may help our little ones, so I'm putting this out there. I copied and pasted this from the

Re: [Felvtalk] Possible therapy for felv

2010-04-16 Thread MaryChristine
first question has to be whether the cats were truly positive to start with: an ifa done 120 days after last possible date of exposure. otherwise, there's no way of knowing that the cats wouldn't throw off the virus themselves. three to six weeks after treatment, which may or may not have been

Re: [Felvtalk] update on Whimsy

2010-04-16 Thread MaryChristine
and don't forget that with cats, for reasons unknown, once they get into a scratchy/worrying a hair-loss place, it can become an obsessive thing that has nothing to do with whether or not the active irritant still exists. it's a horrible season for pollen, for all critters, so allergies are

Re: [Felvtalk] Gary - info on acemannan,etc

2010-04-16 Thread gary
Jenny, Nothing was attached to this email, I don't know if the list allows attachments. Could you send the stuff directly to me a gcru...@centurytel.net please. Thanks, Gary -- From: jbero tds.net jb...@tds.net Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010

Re: [Felvtalk] Possible therapy for felv

2010-04-16 Thread jbero tds.net
I have to be honest, I am skeptical myself. In general, it is a group of individuals looking to find a treatment for AIDS/HIV in people and the cats were a model for disease (I hate that they do this, but if they do I will learn everything I possibly can from it). It is somewhat old so I do not

Re: [Felvtalk] Possible therapy for felv

2010-04-16 Thread gary
I didn't know you could patent a treatment made up of commercially available products. Where did you see this patent? It is certainly interesting. It is unfortunate there isn't more info as it doesn't say if the surviving cats were FeLV+ or FIV+, or both. Also, too bad it was such a small

Re: [Felvtalk] Possible therapy for felv

2010-04-16 Thread MaryChristine
i realize that there are a group of folks who insist that FIV and AIDS are totally analogous; what i've found out is that the major researchers continuing in this line are followers of the folks who first identified the virus as an individual entity in either 86 or 87, during the panic surrounding

Re: [Felvtalk] on ringworm.

2010-04-16 Thread Gloria B. Lane
HA Love it. Gloria On Apr 15, 2010, at 7:49 PM, MaryChristine wrote: re: ringworm, your vet is uncommonly wise. if you read all the professional literature, including the small print, it all boils down to: goes away with treatment in x number of months (depending on treatment); goes away

Re: [Felvtalk] update on Whimsy

2010-04-16 Thread Emeraldkittee
thanks, Heather, yes I think it's looking like seasonal allergies since it was triggered when we had our first snow melt.  I didn't know him last Spring so I cannot tell what he went thru then.  good reasons to bring him in:) --- On Fri, 4/16/10, Heather furrygi...@gmail.com wrote: From:

Re: [Felvtalk] update on Whimsy

2010-04-16 Thread Gloria B. Lane
Interesting. I'm always a believer in Gentian Violet for ringworm and skin problems as well as Golden Seal. I first learned about Gentian Violet because when my dad was burned in the mid 1940's they used on some of his skin problems. Then in the 1950's my grandmother said to use it on

Re: [Felvtalk] Possible therapy for felv

2010-04-16 Thread Gloria B. Lane
Good luck feeding your cats dandelions with cheese and jalapeno sauce... On Apr 16, 2010, at 4:20 PM, MaryChristine wrote: i realize that there are a group of folks who insist that FIV and AIDS are totally analogous; what i've found out is that the major researchers continuing in this line

Re: [Felvtalk] Possible therapy for felv

2010-04-16 Thread MaryChristine
c'mon, gloria, tell me you wouldn't try it, too, if you thought it'd work! (and my first calico LOVED hot sauce, so who can tell--of course, i'd boil the dandelions first to remove the bitterness.) On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Gloria B. Lane gbl...@aristotle.netwrote: Good luck feeding

Re: [Felvtalk] update on Whimsy

2010-04-16 Thread MaryChristine
along that same vine, when you catch ringyworm FROM your cats (which can happen even without them having any symptoms if you're susceptible--maybe i AM genetically a persian, after all.) miconazole works great for the human, too as will any over-the-counter fungal cream, actually. i

Re: [Felvtalk] on ringworm.

2010-04-16 Thread MaryChristine
i've been threatening for years to make up a t-shirt that says, Ringworm Happens. On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Gloria B. Lane gbl...@aristotle.netwrote: HA Love it. Gloria On Apr 15, 2010, at 7:49 PM, MaryChristine wrote: re: ringworm, your vet is uncommonly wise. if you read