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Skriven 2014-12-03 17:21:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: health 377
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-03-14  09:02 <=-

 ML>> last bit of precious medication, did you. I figure if my
 ML>> body needs that last 3 mL of the liter that much, I might
 ML>> as well pack it in right away.
 NB>> When I'm getting my iron infusion, I want that last 3ml of the
 NB>> (somewhat smaller) bag... ;)
 ML> The standard dose is administered with a bag of fluid, is it
 ML> not? 

Not usually.  In the case of the iron, it's in it's own little pouch,
kinda like a blood transfusion.  They sometimes hang a bag of fluid to
either somewhat dilute it as it goes in (both feed at the same time) or
to chase the last bits in at the end...

 ML> Even if it's the smallest bag, 100, you still get over
 ML> 97% - 107/110 if the Internet tells true, plus the last few
 ML> mL are going to be more dilute than average. The small
 ML> numbers that people generally deal with, compared with the
 ML> relatively large human body, makes the benefit of squeezing
 ML> that last few ions out not worth the effort.

When they inject a medication into a bag, yes, that would be more the
case...  ;)  I've seen that more with antibiotics, or other drugs they
wanted to administer over a longer period of time.  :)

 ML>> There is a book of things that are authorized to be
 ML>> administrated together. Magnesium and one of the balanced
 ML>> electrolyte solutions (I forget which) was a combination
 ML>> not listed in the book, and they couldn't do them together.
 NB>> As I said, protocol.  Doesn't have to make sense, just has to be
 NB>> followed... if not listed, it can't be done...
 ML> Abundances of caution often go too far, and when they
 ML> cancel out both common sense and experimental knowledge,
 ML> what's the point.

Indeed...  and, Quite.
 
 ML>> Allopurinol, as I recall, used to be part of the chemo
 ML>> cocktail in the '50s or '60s for I think leukemia.
 NB>> Interesting... Did they decide it wasn't effective there, or just
 NB>> found better(ish) drugs since then...?
 ML> It went with 6-MP, something my father used to work with,
 ML> so that's why I remembered; but I don't think that it was
 ML> as effective as other co-drugs. I just did a curiosity
 ML> search on Google and found that 6-MP isn't used so much
 ML> any more itself (I never figured out the role of
 ML> immunosuppressants in cancer therapy anyway).

Doesn't make a lot of sense... nowadays the trend is more to try to
build up the immune system so the the body isn't as devastated by the
chemo as the cancer (hopefully) is...  The thought might have been along
the line of the administration of immunosuppressants with transplants,
but that doesn't really follow along well, either...

 NB>>> With any luck, the body will settle in, and things will have gone
 NB>>> back to (somewhat) normal...  ;)
 ML>> If not, too sad.
 NB>> I'm wishing at least survival for you... if not much much better... ;)
 ML> Well, thanks, I wish that for you and all my friends
 ML> (and even most nonfriends).

Ok, ok... I'd wish it on most, too...  ;)  You know what I meant, I
think...  :)

ttyl         neb

... My kidneys were expecting orange juice...silly kidneys.

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