Sicca cell treatment consists of injection of freeze dried cells from various organs of fetal cattle and sheep.
Sicca cell therapy.
Three different types of cell preparations are in use.
Stem cell treatment stem cells halt the attack on the tear glands by resetting the immune system.
Fresh cells frozen cells snap frozen cell suspensions and lyophilized cells sicca cells 145.
Cell therapy can cause local and generalized allergic reactions fever nausea vomiting urticaria and anaphylactic shock.
A therapy introduced consisting of injections of freeze dried cells from various organs of foetal cattle and sheep first used in the 1950s for treating children with mental retardation e g with down syndrome.
There s currently no cure for sicca syndrome but there are treatments that can help relieve the symptoms.
Drugs such as pilocarpine salagen and cevimeline evoxac can increase the production of saliva and sometimes tears.
Some treatments such as sicca cell therapy have proven to be dangerous.
Sicca syndrome treatment sicca syndrome treatment depends on the symptom or cause.
More recently the orthomolecular approach to treatment using various combinations of vitamins minerals enzymes and amino acids have been revisited.
It was first used to treat children with mental retardation including youngsters with down syndrome in the 1950s 1.