Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Understanding Immune Reactions: Effective Treatments Explained

18 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube video in which Robert Whitfield MD explains that patients who receive implanted devices can develop immune reactions; clinicians commonly treat these reactions with immunosuppressive/immunomodulatory drugs such as prednisone (a steroid), methotrexate, and plaquenil to suppress the body's response to foreign material.

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So if someone puts in a device and starts having a reaction. Now I get all these patients sent to me, Alex, who have immune problems. Okay, and so what are doctors doing for them? They're getting drugs like prednisone, which is a steroid. They're getting drugs like methotrexate. They're getting plaquenil. All of these different drugs are just to modulate what. It's what your body's doing in response to having something foreign, it's reacting.