Learn about the LEMTRADA infusion treatment procedure
Here’s your infusion-day checklist for the start of your LEMTRADA treatment:
- Arrive early to sign in and get situated.
- Take any recommended pre-medications, as directed by your healthcare provider.
- Get comfortable and stay hydrated throughout treatment.
- Ask if there is a Wi-Fi password and enter it into your devices.
- Ask if there is a power supply close to your infusion chair.
During an infusion
You will receive your infusion at a healthcare facility with equipment and staff trained to manage infusion reactions, including serious allergic reactions, and urgent heart or breathing problems
You can expect to be there for up to 8 hours or more each day. Before your infusion begins, you will be given certain medications to help reduce the chance of having a serious infusion reaction and to treat them if they happen. It will take approximately 4 hours to receive 1 dose of LEMTRADA.
You will be watched while you receive, and for 2 hours or longer after you receive, LEMTRADA on each infusion day. If a serious infusion reaction happens while you are receiving LEMTRADA, your infusion may be stopped.
LEMTRADA can cause serious infusion reactions that may cause death. Serious infusion reactions may happen while you receive, or up to 24 hours or longer after you receive, LEMTRADA.
Medications your
healthcare team will
prescribe include:
Corticosteroids: To lower your chances of getting serious infusion reactions, your healthcare provider will give you a medicine called corticosteroids before your first 3 infusions of a treatment course.
Antihistamines and fever reducers: These medications may be given prior to your infusion to reduce the chances of infusion reactions, or to treat them if they happen.
Antivirals: You will be prescribed antivirals to take starting on your first day of infusion. Continue taking medications as recommended by your healthcare team.