Robert Whitfield MD explains how doctors treat immune reactions to implanted devices. He covers three main drugs: prednisone, methotrexate, and hydroxychloroquine, which suppress the body's response to foreign objects.
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.
