Re: Interferon

[Laura Bond]

In response to Del's question about interferon: My late Ziggy was on 
interferon treatment for most of his life ( about 1.5 years).  He took 1 cc 
-which contained 30 units of interferon once a day for 7 days and then he 
was off of it for 7 days. However, the recent reading I have been doing 
suggests that kitty take interferon every day with no time off because it is 
an anti-viral and if it is stopped for any period of time kitty will get 
immune to it, much like if you stopped taking antibiotics early and then 
restarted them.  Anyways, my suggestion is to keep kitty on the interferon 
treatment for another 3-6 months and get kitty retested to make sure it 
wasn't a false negative.  As far as I know, kitty doesn't need tapered off 
interferon.  I found a very useful site on interferon that will maybe be of 
some help. .http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/9352/interferon.html

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