RE: combining treatments
What do you mean by going down hill - have you checked his blood work to see which organs were effected? I have heard from my vet that steroid injection can cause acute organ failure sometimes... and even death in rare and rare case due to it. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 4:42 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: combining treatments Are you sure that what he has is a URI? If steroids helped, it might be something else. What are the symptoms? Immuno-regulin usually helps with URi's at that dose. It can be given 1 ml, which is twice the dose-- the vet who wrote the article on the website uses that dose, and I have used that dose in the past. You might try it. I don't know anything about Alferon. What is it? Michelle In a message dated 11/24/2006 5:22:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm posting this again because I don't think it went through the first time. My FeLV 12yo cat with an URI which has been treated for almost 2 months and was started on Baytril on 11/22/06. He has been in a bad way because of not eating/drinking. He did respond to the Baytril injection and B12 injection. Has been on Immunoregulin 1/2cc IV for almost 3 weeks 2x a week. Unfortunately was given a steroid injection with the third dose. After the steroid wore off he went downhill quickly. I added Alferon 1cc/50ui on 11/21. I have now been getting conflicting advice regarding given both immune stimulants at the same time. Does anyone know if this can be done? Do they compete against each other? Thanks Candace
combining treatments
I'm posting this again because I don't think it went through the first time. My FeLV 12yo cat with an URI which has been treated for almost 2 months and was started on Baytril on 11/22/06. He has been in a bad way because of not eating/drinking. He did respond to the Baytril injection and B12 injection. Has been on Immunoregulin 1/2cc IV for almost 3 weeks 2x a week. Unfortunately was given a steroid injection with the third dose. After the steroid wore off he went downhill quickly. I added Alferon 1cc/50ui on 11/21. I have now been getting conflicting advice regarding given both immune stimulants at the same time. Does anyone know if this can be done? Do they compete against each other? Thanks Candace
Re: combining treatments
Are you sure that what he has is a URI? If steroids helped, it might be something else. What are the symptoms? Immuno-regulin usually helps with URi's at that dose. It can be given 1 ml, which is twice the dose-- the vet who wrote the article on the website uses that dose, and I have used that dose in the past. You might try it. I don't know anything about Alferon. What is it? Michelle In a message dated 11/24/2006 5:22:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I’m posting this again because I don’t think it went through the first time. My FeLV 12yo cat with an URI which has been treated for almost 2 months and was started on Baytril on 11/22/06. He has been in a bad way because of not eating/drinking. He did respond to the Baytril injection and B12 injection. Has been on Immunoregulin 1/2cc IV for almost 3 weeks 2x a week. Unfortunately was given a steroid injection with the third dose. After the steroid wore off he went downhill quickly. I added Alferon 1cc/50ui on 11/21. I have now been getting conflicting advice regarding given both immune stimulants at the same time. Does anyone know if this can be done? Do they compete against each other? Thanks Candace
Re: combining treatments
I saw the question the first time, but I don't know the answer, thus my lack of a response. I thought Baytril was a pill, not an injection. Are you sure he went downhill BECAUSE of the steroid injection, or maybe it was just an odd coincidence? Someone here should be able to tell you more about why he went downhill after the steroid injection IF you tell us WHAT the steroid injection was, like the brand name. Is Alferon another brand name for Interferon-A, the human type that is diluted with saline for cats and then given orally? Phaewryn VT low cost SpayNeuter, and Emergency Financial Assistance for cat owners: http://ucat.us/VermontLowCost.html Special Needs Cat Resources: http://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html
