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How Can Acute Body Itching Be Treated?

hi,my partner has recently finished rchop for non hodgkins folliculer lymphoma(feb) and has had one treatment of rituximab which he has to have every two months for two years,before he was diagnosed he had relenless itching all over his body and was almost having a breakdown because of this.When the chemo started the itching stopped but now he has started itching again which he describes as not the same sort of in the blood itch but he remembers it starting like this before.why is he itching again?and will it stop.neither of us can go through this again as nothing helps it.
Tue, 25 Nov 2014
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Since you are having acute body itching i would advise you to take tablet cetrizine twice daily with your doctors advise.
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DR DE
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How Can Acute Body Itching Be Treated?

Hi Since you are having acute body itching i would advise you to take tablet cetrizine twice daily with your doctors advise. Regards DR DE