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Old Tue Sep 3, 2013, 10:12 PM
TonyBegg TonyBegg is offline
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papaya leaf extract

Marmab. Have you tried Papaya Leaf Extract to help maintain your platelet levels. Karin is trying it (Herbal Papaya is the company although Iowa Select Herbs makes them too, capsules 600mg of Papaya Leaf Extract (not just papain), 2 in morning and 2 at night) and over three weeks the platelets have been 17000, 17000, 16000, 15000, in CBCs taken once a week, so not maintaining but not plummeting as they were prior to taking the Papaya Leaf Extract. It is disappointing that you are having to take Rituximab so often, but the side effects are not too bad I suppose compared to other immuno-suppression regimes. If you look up immunological memory (to say a "bone marrow injury" in this case) it seems to be mainly carried by the B-cells which then present anti-gens to the T-cells and keep them active. There is some T-cell memory too but the papers focus on B-cells.
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