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My 12 year old daughter has been on remicade for 1 and a half years now. She is starting to have some side effects from it. This week we are fighting a case of the shingles. Yea I know shingles at 12. Well thanks to remicade a child who has had the chicken pox can develop shingles. They...

You should see if they can give him zantac pills instead. They weren't able to do this for twyla because of her weight. I know the benadryl really bothers her in the iv form because it stings. The remicade nurse said as soon as she gains some weight they can switch her to zantac pill. (I...

Thanks everyone for your concerns. It helps to here everyones suggestions. I will definitly check out the parents forum. I think its crazy that as soon as they got her diagnosed they just quite needing to see her. The first year we were at the clinic every month or so. Now its like they...

Hi I'm new to this site. My daughter was diagonosed with crohns and ibd 4 years ago. Since then she has been on numerous drugs to control it. Now she is on an ifusion treatment of remicade every 7 weeks. It started out as 8 week treatments but her crohns and ibd was starting to come back...