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Nplate and Promacta
Hi Margarete,
You know I try to avoid everything that can possibly decrease platelets or increase bleeding risk. Many drugs for example pain killers decrease platelets and a lot of food can prevent blood clotting. For example green tea, onions, garlic, blueberries, dark chocolate etc are good for persons with normal platelets - they prevent blood clotting and arteriosclerosis. I dare never eat this kind of food.
There are many drugs that can increase platelets in a some patients - all drugs for MDS patients like Vidaza, Dacogen, Revlimid and so on can improve counts. Four weeks after I started to take Thalidomide my platelets increased to 43 from 22 and now after 6 months they are between 70 and 80.
As far as I have understood they looked for both increased fibrosis and blast cells during the trials with Nplate and in several cases the blast cells decreased when Nplate was stopped.
Kind regards
Birgitta-A
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