Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Understanding Immune Reactions: Effective Treatments Explained

19 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube lecture by Robert Whitfield MD about immune reactions to implanted or foreign devices and how clinicians treat those reactions. The speaker lists common immunomodulatory drugs used (prednisone, methotrexate, plaquenil) and frames them as agents to dampen the body’s response to a foreign object.

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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.