Guest guest Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 I'm getting an iron infusion on Tuesday. I'm pretty happy, since hopefully this will fix my anemia without eating a bunch of liver or taking an iron supplement. Still a little intimidated by it, but mostly happy. My question is this: they gave me an option of either having the dextran iron infusion or the sucrose iron infusion. The dextran is apparently the one that could cause an allergic reaction, but obviously they would monitor me very closely. I think I would be inclined to try that one since they said I'd have to have two treatments for the sucrose, vs one for the dextran, so that would be one less day of school missed. But first I wanted to see if there's any reason the sucrose would be better? Thanks! Peace =) Alyssa 16 yo UC April 2008, dx Sept 2008 SCD June 2009 (restarted) Azathioprine 50 mg 1x per day Prednisone 35 mg 1x per day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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