Re: Chicken Pox exposure 1st tri

From: Danny Tucker (danny.tucker@dial.pipex.com)
Mon Oct 28 07:48:43 1996


Terrence.Jones@ncal.kaiperm.org, you wrote:

>Danny, same dose (5 vials if pt over 50kg) if treating postexposure with VZIG,
>provided immunoprophylaxis is administered with 96 hrs of exposure.

Terry, thanks for your comments, once again. I'm not sure, but I think in the UK our 1 gram preparation is equivalent to the dosage you describe. Certainly the UK pharmaceutical 'bible', the British National Formulary quotes this (4x250mg vials) as the post-exposure prophylaxis dose. I don't know if any other UK chaps can confirm/refute this.

Cheers,

Danny.

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