This awesome product will now help hundreds of kids.
According to her website, the back of the Medi Teddy is mesh, “allowing for a doctor or nurse to see through and check on the fluid or medication a child is receiving. From the front, the child sees a friendly face and not the bag of medication, blood product or IV fluid being infused.”“The response has been wonderful — her nurses have tried the prototypes and given suggestions,” Casano said. “And we think we are ready to produce a really awesome product that can help hundreds of kids.
For Casano, her disease requires her to spend a day every eight weeks or so at an outpatient clinic getting an infusion of IVIG, a medicine to increase the number of platelets in her body. “After the IVIG, I have to take steroids for a week to help minimize the side effects of the IVIG, although it still makes me feel pretty crummy,” she said. “I often miss school due to post-infusion migraines, and doctor appointments.
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