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What Causes Low Platelet Count Despite Treating Dengue Fever?
Dr ITP was diagnoized during a hospital treatment for dengu fever in 2007. Took Wyslone and omnacartil, which led to fatigue. Now the body has adapted low platelet counts. No abnormality in Bone marrow test. Whenever infected with viral infection, the count comes to precariously low level. What further treatment can be suggested?
Fri, 30 Jun 2017
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Went through your post and as you know that you are suffering from ITP which has a reuniting and relapsing course and can be aggregated by any thing that suppress the bone marrow, like infection especially viral some drugs. Till date there is no permanent curable therapy for ITP, spleenectomy and bone marrow transplant are used in extremely non responsive patients. I would suggest you should have flu shorts every year and pnemococal vaccination every five years to dicrease incidence of infection.
Went through your post and as you know that you are suffering from ITP which has a reuniting and relapsing course and can be aggregated by any thing that suppress the bone marrow, like infection especially viral some drugs. Till date there is no permanent curable therapy for ITP, spleenectomy and bone marrow transplant are used in extremely non responsive patients. I would suggest you should have flu shorts every year and pnemococal vaccination every five years to dicrease incidence of infection.
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