Intravenous immunoglobulin treatment is being explored as an option to treat this form of epilepsy.
Intravenous immunoglobulin is also effective both in the short term and in the long term, particularly in adults where it has been proposed as first-line treatment.
Intravenous therapy | Intravenous immunoglobulin | intravenous immunoglobulin | Immunoglobulin Y | Immunoglobulin light chain | Immunoglobulin heavy chain | Immunoglobulin D |
Pardo's 2005 study, published in the Annals of Neurology, has been cited by many promoters of alternative autism therapies, such as Dan Rossignol, to justify treating children "with a blood product typically reserved for people with severe immune system disorders like the one known as bubble boy disease."
Hyperimmune globulin, a substance similar to Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG)