For Dr. Furman

[Guest guest]

How about allopurinol? Wouldn't that be necessary to give as a pre-med

for someone tx. naive who has a very high WBC and is using only rituxan?

Thanks,

Ellen

rrfurman@... wrote:

I only use Benadryl and Tylenol with rituximab and

IV Ig unless the patient has had problems with previous infusions.

Rick Furman

From: Ellen <rhudy@...>Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010

14:59:26 -0400< >Subject: Re:

question re premeds

I think it's on the cig site?? Where is it, please,

someone?

Thanks Pat,

Ellen R.

pat kennedy wrote:

I don't know about the link. I know for IVIG and Rituxan

alone I did not have steroids (UCLA protocol), but many others have for

both treatments.

Pat

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Ellen <rhudy@...>

wrote:

Recently, within

the last month, someone posted a link about pre-meds,

and I can't find it again. It's not in the files. Apparently,

there's some kind of debate about whether or not steroids are really

necessary to throw in the mix with other pre-meds.

Thanks,

Ellen R.