Firstly, it may be called Ferriprox in some countries, since a couple years......but it has been around as Kelfer couple decades.
Kelfer, L1 ................thals in India are the people who tried this drug first of all, and have a long-term experience with it, and so you see it deemed viable for all others today.
So Ash just might know better, he has tried this drug when noone knew better. Kelfer has been a trial drug and trial drugs have not much to do with pharmacies. In fact even now, we do not get Kelfer at the pharmacy.
" I should know better" is one of the most scary phrases I get to hear...............esp. as a kid from the doctors. We all know about thal and new trial drugs ..........EXPERIENCE, people who have tried it know better than doctors. I know I would not have survived if I'd thought doctors knew better than my parents.
'Better for all' is an absolutist regime which democracies do not prescribe to.....TO EACH HIS OWN, I say.
All of you on Kelfer, you have to go through some trial and experience to find out what dosage suits you..............................which should not exceed 75 mg/ kg of your total body weight in any case.
Watch out for any side- effects by having a monthly CBC done.
To a large extent nausea is to do with nervousness and p'gical effects but yes Kelfer is very bitter if it rises up on ya.
So to those who feel sick, you can take it after a meal, not with it. For the rest, it is better to take it on an empty stomach, as Ash says, for max. effect. Like Sajid says , sometime after waking up and before sleeping is good, but nothing is a hard and fast rule. So just take it easy .....
