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Recently I've lost my cats to panleukopenia. Before that, one of them got a chance to get checked at a vet and the vet gave me antibiotics and a bottle of immunomodulator. I got curious about what's immunomodulator and found out it's to help support immune system to fight threats. It works like allergen so the immune system will fight it and the immune will get stronger.
But then an article a vet wrote in 2016 appeared on my search results. On that article, he said he doesn't give immunomodulator to his sick patients because it actually kind of slowing down their healing progress. Their immune system was already busy fighting the actual sickness, giving the patients immunomodulator would just means the immune system will "unnecessarily fight extra against the medicine." (Maybe like before it's just a fight of 1 on 1, but because of the immunomodulator it becomes a 1 on 2)
The article stated it's not an actual, professional research and just his own thought based on various information and research journals but I can see the logic. My question is, is it really necessary to give immunomodulator to sick cats? Does the "research" actually have some truth?
But then an article a vet wrote in 2016 appeared on my search results. On that article, he said he doesn't give immunomodulator to his sick patients because it actually kind of slowing down their healing progress. Their immune system was already busy fighting the actual sickness, giving the patients immunomodulator would just means the immune system will "unnecessarily fight extra against the medicine." (Maybe like before it's just a fight of 1 on 1, but because of the immunomodulator it becomes a 1 on 2)
The article stated it's not an actual, professional research and just his own thought based on various information and research journals but I can see the logic. My question is, is it really necessary to give immunomodulator to sick cats? Does the "research" actually have some truth?