Method for reducing lung afflictions by inhalation of cytokine solutions

摘要

A method for administering to a patient having at least one affliction of infections, immunodeficiency syndromes, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, foreign body transplants, or requiring immuno-regulation of tumor diseases, which is present in the lungs. The method administers a non-systemic inhalation of an aerosol composition to the lungs effective to reduce the affliction. The aerosol composition is a solution of a cytokine and a pharmaceutically acceptable aqueous carrier solution. The aerosol composition is uniformly administered to the patient over a course of treatment of several months.