Immunoguard supplement review, benefit and discussion of research studies

Immunoguard is a dietary supplement. You may come across advertisements that say, "Supercharge Your Body's Immune System and guard against sickness. Give yourself a fighting chance against parasites, pathogens and other threats to your health by harnessing lactoferrin's and colostrum's immune boosting power. Buy Immunoguard today."
   As of March 2009, we could only find one study on Medline regarding research with Immunoguard. This study was done in Armenia. If you search on the internet you can find certain vitamin stores that carry this product. Another option is to use the individual herbs within this formula.

Double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, pilot clinical trial of ImmunoGuard--a standardized fixed combination of Andrographis paniculata Nees, with Eleutherococcus senticosus Maxim, Schizandra chinensis Bail. and Glycyrrhiza glabra L. extracts in patients with Familial Mediterranean Fever.
Phytomedicine. 2003 May; Amaryan G, Astvatsatryan V, Gabrielyan E, Panossian A, Panosyan V, Wikman G. Republican Children's FMF Center, Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan, Armenia.
Double blind, randomized, placebo controlled pilot study of ImmunoGuard--a standardized fixed combination of Andrographis paniculata Nees., Eleutherococcus senticosus Maxim., Schizandra chinensis Bail., and Glycyrrhiza glabra L. special extracts standardized for the content of Andrographolide (4 mg/tablet), Eleuteroside E, Schisandrins and Glycyrrhizin, was carried out in two parallel groups of patients. The study was conducted in 24 (3-15 years of both genders) patients with Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF), 14 were treated with tablets of series A (verum) and 10 patients received series B product (placebo). The study medication was taken three times of four tablets daily for 1 month. Daily dose of the andrographolide--48 mg. The primary outcome measures in physician's evaluation were related to duration, frequency and severity of attacks in FMF patients (attacks characteristics score). The patient's self-evaluation was based mainly on symptoms--abdominal, chest pains, temperature, arthritis, myalgia, erysipelas-like erythema. All of 3 features (duration, frequency, severity of attacks) showed significant improvement in the verum group as compared with the placebo. In both clinical and self evaluation the severity of attacks was found to show the most significant improvement in the verum group. Both the clinical and laboratory results of the present phase II (pilot) clinical study suggest that ImmunoGuard is a safe and efficacious herbal drug for the management of patients with Familial Mediterranean Fever.

Immunoguard supplement emails
Q. I am a breeder of Chinese Shar Pei dogs. Our breed has been afflicted in recent years with a disorder that is unique to our breed's small gene pool and it is now affecting 22-30% of our entire breed. This disorder is being called FSF (Familial Shar Pei Fever and is thought to be similar to Familial Mediterranean Fever. Complications of this are many and can lead to reactive Amyloidosis and renal failure, among other things. So far the primary treatment protocols are Colchicine and MSM. I have been reading a bit about Immunoguard being used for FMF with good result, but did not know if this would be safe to use with Canines. I would love to hear any thoughts or about any research on this. Many of us in this breed are frantic, watching our pets suffer and die from this. Any insight would be MOST appreciated. Blessing's Shar Pei
   A. We are not familiar with this condition and anything we say would be a pure guess. Perhaps small Immunoguard doses, a fraction of the adult dose, could be tried but we have no evidence it would work. We wish your pet optimal health.

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