TH1 and TH2-n and others-Alpha Interferon

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At 12:04 AM 03/30/1999 +0900, you wrote:

>From: ne Kieffer <theocean@...>

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>As most of you know I did not get any mail from this list this past

>weekend so I just went back and read the archives. I found something by

>n stating that she found out that Alpha Interferon will help a

>dominant TH2 immune system go over to a TH1 immune system. I just

>wanted to state that I have exactly what it talks about in the report

>#18...I have every single symptom of a dominant TH2 and I tried the

>alpha interferon and it made me worse. I just wanted to make people

>aware of that...please be careful. I am so glad alpha interferon has

>helped but I just don't think it will help all CFSer's like it did

>her. Of course try it but go slowly is all I am saying. JL

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suzanne, do you mean LOW DOSE interferon? if so, and you had a bad

reaction, it may be that your cytokine pattern was not appropriate for

interferon alpha to be therapeutic.

i keep on coming back to TESTS NEED TO BE DONE so we are not just

trying things haphazardly. of course, i am still waiting for some

of mine, which is terribly frustrating....

according to amarillo bioscience, they will be coming up with

interferon gamma, which is definitely TH1 ALWAYS. i would love

to know if anyone is doing similar stuff with gamma, not just alpha.

nancy mcfadden