What are the side effects of whitening injections?

The whitening injection is also called the white blood cell-raising injection. It is used to treat a physical disease caused by the body's bone marrow, or a tumor in the body, etc. The white blood cell-raising injection is a way to treat the body's bone marrow. It can be treated by injection. Long-term injection of whitening injections will have certain side effects on the body, and it will easily lead to low back pain, or physical fatigue and other phenomena.

Side effects of whitening injections

The main working principle of the white blood cell-raising injection is to stimulate the bone marrow hematopoietic cells to speed up the production of white blood cells to maintain the body's immunity. If the patient uses white blood cell-raising injections for a long time, it will easily cause "fatigue" of the bone marrow hematopoietic cells. Once the white blood cell-raising injections are stopped, normal immunity will not be maintained.

The most obvious side effect of the white blood cell-raising injection is that it can cause bone pain, which is due to excessively accelerating the production of white blood cells by hematopoietic cells in the bone marrow. Generally, the symptoms will be relieved after stopping the white blood cell-raising injection for a period of time.

The bone marrow suppression caused by chemotherapy is mainly manifested as a decrease in white blood cells, mainly a decrease in granulocytes. The sharp increase in white blood cells caused by the white blood cell-raising injection is only a phenomenon produced after the mobilization of the bone marrow. It will gradually return to normal after stopping the medication. Don't worry too much, it will not have much impact on your body. Just remember to monitor your blood count next time during the white blood cell injection. Generally, it is enough to increase the white blood cell count to over 10,000.

During cancer chemotherapy, chemotherapy drugs inhibit bone marrow hematopoiesis, leading to a decrease in white blood cells, sometimes even as low as 500 per microliter. This is called agranulocytosis. This period can lead to a serious decrease in the body's immunity, and may lead to secondary infections in the lungs, intestines, oral cavity, and perianal mucosa. This is the most common and most serious toxic side effect of chemotherapy. In order to restore the hematopoietic function of the bone marrow as quickly as possible, bone marrow colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) is used clinically to stimulate rapid hematopoiesis in the bone marrow, among which injections to increase white blood cells are more commonly used.

Generally, around the tenth day of chemotherapy, bone marrow suppression is most severe, and then hematopoietic function begins to recover. There is no feeling when using the white blood cell-raising injection for the first time. Sometimes one or two subcutaneous injections are given, and up to 300 micrograms can be used each time. After several days of injections, the bone marrow hematopoiesis is accelerated. Due to the rapid growth of cells, the patient can feel obvious discomfort, which is mainly manifested as swelling and pain in the entire spine, especially in the lumbar sacral area, and sometimes throbbing pain. This feeling is very obvious and unbearable, as if there is a cone drilling inside. It is difficult to even straighten your back. At this time, you can only lie still. If you try to sit up, you will scream in pain. It is common to hear people in the ward groaning in pain or rolling around in bed because of this. The pain also often occurs in the hips, shoulders and other areas where bone marrow hematopoiesis is active. It usually lasts for 2 to 3 days and gradually eases.

When pain comes, it is recommended not to endure it. Enduring it means the painful experience will deepen, and you will not be able to rest in peace, which is not conducive to recovery.