My mother is suffering from chronic diabetes since 2011 but her platelet count has decreased rapidly since last 10 days. Last week it 48000 after which she started taking daphson tablet and yet this week as of saturday it decreased to 26000 after which manual platelet testing was done in which the count was 22000. This was yesterday and yesterday only one unit of platelet was given to her. Currently she is taking wysolone 30 mg but that's increases her sugar levels since she also has diabetes. The doctor that is handling her case has plans to give some medication and increase the count but that will be time taking. There is only one blood bank in town where the matched blood was not easily available either plus the situation is pretty grim due to the cavity 19 situation. My question here is should we be referred to some other place immediately such as kolkata or patna. If so is travelling advisable in her condition or should we wait 7 days to see if the count increases through meds.
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Do daily platelet counting. If it further goes down she may be take to bigger hospital. Good luck.
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Hello, Thanks for the query. I have gone through the details given. Early platelet transfusion is a necessity. So if matching blood is not available one of the family embers can donate the necessary blood if it matches instead of travelling for a long distance. Why can't the family members check that? Then if no alternative is there you can consider moving out. Which may not be very safe. Thanks.
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Dear lybrate-user, if she had a fever before the onset of the decrease in platelets she could be having dengue. In this condition the platelets do come up quickly as the problem settles. Till such time you need to give platelet transfusions which may only be available readily in bigger cities like kolkotta. It may therefore be better to shift quickly
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Firstly why we use dapsone tablet bcz that’s a antileprosy drug! and secondly there is no chronic form available in diabetes and thirdly whenever we use corticosteroids in diabetic patient it’s spike your blood glucose that’s why her blood glucose level going high and your doctor use prednisolone that’s duration of action is 36-48 hr so that’s the reason behind high glucose level so kindly tell your Dr. to use insulin instead of oral drug and fourth point is that ask your doctor for thyroid function test thank you.
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