3 hourly schedule for DMSA? & Re: Question about DMSA dosage

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> Posted by: " toowittybird " toowittybird@...

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> Fri Mar 7, 2008 8:44 am (PST)

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> >Can DMSA be administered every 3 hours during the day and 4 hours

> >during the night? Should it still total 18 doses in total or

should it

> >be given for a total of 72 hours implying that it would be

more than

> >18 doses in the latter case?

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> If you are doing 3 hours at night and 4 in the day, there will be

> more than 18 doses in 3 days - otherwise you would have more than a

> 4 hour break in the day.

Well, that is my question- are we supposed to do 72 hours in total

whether the number of doses comes out to 18 or whether the number

comes out to more than 18?

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In frequent-dose-chelation toowittybird wrote:

WooHoo! Thanks, Jackie, you cleared it up beautifully for me!

---------You're welcome! Never sure if I word things right, so glad to hear

it was helpful.-----------Jackie

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