Update and Question(Transfer Factor)

    • Gold Top Dog

    Update and Question(Transfer Factor)

    Just an update.
    Angel is doing quite well. She really munched out the day after surgery, had to spoil her with boiled chicken breasts.
    Her incision is healing up nicely, I have her laying across my lap spread eagle 2Xs a day so the sun can dry up her boo-boo.
    Her mouth is quite tender but she is managing to eat. She is no longer snorting from food going into her sinus cavity and I think she now understands what the surgery was all about. The reason why is because she is drinking alot more water and enjoying it instead of sneezing it out.
    I have been researching the benefits of Transfer Factor and I am going to start her on it to help fight any toxins in her body and improve her immune system.
    Any opinions or insight on Transfer Factor would be appreciated.
    Thanks all
    • Gold Top Dog
    Lena, I don't know anything about Transfer Factor,,,, but  I just wanted to say how happy I am that Angel is doing so well. I know how worried you were..and I never took the time to read the threads to find out if you posted..sorry! I have just a small amount of time on the computer lately, and got caught up in the puppy mill things...so haven't been too involved with reading regular threads. 
    I am so happy for you both...shew,,,what a relief...huh??
    • Gold Top Dog
    I am glad to hear Angel is doing better.
     
    I can't help w/your other question.
    • Gold Top Dog
    I tend to not be 'up' on highly advertised things so I really don't know much about Transfer Factor (in honesty I got totally and completely turned off by the repeated attempts on here to 'sell' it and I've ignored it).  That's probably not admirable but I really don't know much to tell you.  i *do* use colostrum extensively and have never had a problem with it working well on dogs -- so I don't think it matters what form you use to be honest.  It's a good immune builder.
     
    However I would suggest making chammomile tea for her -- if you can find the loose herbs great -- otherwise just the tea bags at your local grocery store are FINE.  Use a couple of bags and make a large cup of tea with it but don't throw away the bags.  Instead, add those wet herbs to her next meal (they are really tastey to them and it's a GREAT tummy settler - sets really well on the tummy). 
     
    But then take the tea after cooled and suck it up into a syringe you've taken the needle off of (or get one of those baby medicine syringes for liquid meds).  Lift her lip and squirt the chammomile gently into her mouth after she eats.  Try to hit the places where there was surgery -- that's going to ease the mouth pain in a BIG way.  It's great if she swallows it (it will help more then) but just rinsing her mouth with chammomile 3-4 times a day will be a BIG help to her to make the soreness go away in the mouth.  It's a mild NSAID and it will help the soreness all the way around.
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    I'm so glad that Angel is doing well Lena. Thank you so much for posting.
    She is such a lucky girl to have you, and you her. I hope that she recovers quickly.

    I have no personal experience with Transfer Factor. I've only read about it.
    I just wonder if it derived from dogs, which would make sense to me. Wheras the bovine type colostrum would worry me, as it's another species immune cells. I did learn something extremely interesting recently, that canine colostrum can be made (for the sake of newborn pups who can't get thier mom's colostrum ( for one reason or another). I learned this at a Dr. Ronald Schultz seminar. He said it could be made with canine milk or formula and adult canine blood (1:1 ratio) [:-]. Yuck, sorry to get off subject but I found it facinating but so simple it made perfect sense. Not that I'm suggesting it.
    Perhaps for Angel just a diet rich in fresh foods, little stress and lots of love will be all that she needs to heal well. Do you know which species this product is derived from?

    Edited to add: I went to the Tranfer factor site and it is derived from cow's colostrum.
    I'm not sure if I have a valid concern with the whole species thing and an immune cell (in this case T-cell) coming from it, but I just have to wonder if it's appropriate to mix immune system cells among species. I don't know much about it though.