Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Understanding Immune Reactions: Effective Treatments Explained

4 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Robert Whitfield MD (speaking in a YouTube video) discusses receiving referrals of patients with immune problems following implantation of foreign devices. He notes clinicians commonly treat these reactions with immunomodulatory drugs — prednisone (a steroid), methotrexate, and plaquenil — to dampen the body's response to the 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.