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You will have to change the dosage of insulin. I will prescribe it after payment consultation. What is your fasting and post prandial blood sugar levels?
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Rheumatoid Arthritis - Rheumatoid Arthritis Prevention. There is no known way to prevent rheumatoid arthritis, although progression of the disease usually can be stopped or slowed by early, aggressive treatment.

What is type of lymphoaa? i. E hodgkins. Or non hodgkins?
what was staging of tumour. How far it had progressed?
for recurrence. High dose chemotherapy can b given.
Alternately image guided-interventional radiotherapy can b given.
Bone marrow//stem cell transplant r other options.

Pemphigus vulgaris is an auto immune disease and we can control it but not cure it fully and you are already taking omnocortil and if you are having more unwanted symptoms than rheumatologist decides whether an extra medication of rituximab needs to be given or not.

Dear lybrate-user. Rituximab is a costly drug but it doesn't have side effects as those of omnacortil. Pemphigus vulgaris is not a one time disease. But we have no other option than taking medicines. I would prefer rituximab over omnacortil if affordability is not an issue.

Dear patient, systemic scleroderma is an auto-immune disease, rituximab is a very good and potent drug for better control of this type of diseases. And side effects to saari drugs ki hoti hai. But risk-benefit dekhna hota hai. Agar aapka disease/condition me side effects ye jyada fayda kar rhi hai drug to definitely aapko wo drug leni chahiye. Lekin kisi rheumatologist ke regular follow up me rehna. Kyuki side effects monitor ho ske .akshar rituximab se white blood cells kam ho jaate hai aue dus...more

Hi lybrate-user,
I appreciate you seeking help for your father. Is your father's treatment basis the Gmall protocol, already over? As far as I understand, targeted therapy with 'Rituximab' is used (often) along with chemotherapy for better clinical outcomes. This may be used either as a part of the initial treatment or as a part of the 2nd line treatment regimen. However, the decision to go for a targeted therapy is to be taken by your father's consulting physician/ haemato-oncologist, as wo...more

Rheumatic arthritisIt is called as Rheumatic arthritis. If your pain is more in the distal joints, ie. In the upper limbs if the pain is present in the fingers/wrist and in the lower limbs it the pain is present in the toes/ ankle, then we shall definitely say it is Rheumatic arthritis. Wear elbow brace and wrist brace which will make her to feel warm and that will make the joints become firm. Hot water fermentation will help
Knee cap will also help to prevent the damaged cartilages. If your...more

In daily routinehow much fever she have. also explain the more symptoms aboutherfor homeo pathic treatment.

All immunosuppressive and biologics should be avoided in covid era, particularly in the elderly diabetics as they may make your mum even more vulnerable to covid.