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Low platelet count
My father is diognised as an ITP patient in last august, he was prescribed to take cartico steroids for about 9-10 months, he had also been given with rituximob treatment in the month of january, he was developing lot of complications with the use of steroids. Recently 3 weeks back he was asked to stop taking the steroids. Since then his platelets count is falling down drastically. We are very much anxious about his health. 4 days back on monday his platelet count was 60000 and today on friday they are 38000. Kindly anybody help me in this regard.
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Suddenly stopping the steroids is not advisable.Pl. restart steroids and Taper off slowly decreasing the dose every 3 days.
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