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Steroids for 5 days

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9 years 3 months ago #56168 by Hope and Faith
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Hi All,

My child has chronic ITP. We treated with Steriods for 5 days for the first time. Platelets went from 4 to 36. What can we expect with her labs once we abruptly stop the steroids? Anything else to look out for?

Faith and Hope

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9 years 3 months ago #56175 by Melinda
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How old is your daughter? How long has she had ITP? How much was the dose of steroid? Why the abrupt stop - even when I was put on it for serum sickness it was a tapered dose.

We would have no idea how your daughter's body will/would respond - maybe her count will go down, maybe not.

Good luck to her!

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9 years 3 months ago #56181 by Sandi
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I would expect a drop and hope for a rise. It could go either way.

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9 years 3 months ago #56211 by Hope and Faith
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she has had itp for one year. they gave her 36 ml per day.

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