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Chronic Illness and Missing School - Words from a Patient
Being chronically ill is definitely a challenge especially when you are missing a lot of school. When I was younger I missed a lot of school due to illness and infusions. Trying to keep up with the missing school assignments was a struggle at times. I diagnosed with CVID at 11 years old. My parents […]
Intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) is an injection made from healthy human blood that can help protect people with compromised immune systems from infection. The healthy blood used for IVIG usually has particularly high concentrations of important antibodies. It is also used to boost the platelet count of people with idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura-ITP, which is a […]