Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Understanding Immune Reactions: Effective Treatments Explained

22 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD (recorded Mar 22, 2025) in which he describes how doctors treat immune reactions to implanted foreign devices. He notes that patients with immune problems are often treated with immunomodulatory drugs such as prednisone (a steroid), methotrexate, and plaquenil to suppress the body’s reaction 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.