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Leutero 50mg Injection

Name: Leutero 50mg Injection
Brand: Hetero healthcare limited
SKU: 8995
Availability: InStock

Original price was: ₹275.00.Current price is: ₹70.00.

Leutero 50 mg Injection helps reduce or prevent the harmful side effects that come from methotrexate. That drug treats cancer. Doctors also give it to handle cases of methotrexate overdose.

Product Details

Salt/Formula: Calcium Leucovorin (50mg)

Manufacturer: Hetero Healthcare Ltd.

Dosage: 50mg

Doctor's Prescription Required for this Product.

Weight/Quantity: 1 Vial

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Categories: Anti-Cancer, Others Brand: Hetero healthcare limited

Benefits

Leutero 50 mg Injection plays a key role in preventing the harmful effects of methotrexate. It works by protecting healthy body cells from the toxic impacts of this anticancer medicine. As a form of vitamin B known as folinic acid, the injection gets administered usually 24 hours after methotrexate. This timing allows the cancer-fighting properties of methotrexate to take full effect. At the same time, it cuts down on the damaging side effects. Overall, this approach helps avoid serious complications. Those include anemia and various other toxicities linked to methotrexate.

How to Use

Your doctor or nurse will handle the administration of this medicine to you. It is important that you do not attempt to self-administer it.

Specification

Your doctor or nurse will handle the administration of this medicine to you. It is important that you do not attempt to self-administer it.

Side Effects

Most side effects from Leutero turn out to be mild in nature. They often get better over time as your body starts adjusting to the medication. Still, if those effects stick around or start bothering you, it makes sense to check in with your doctor right away.

Common side effects of Leutero often show up as reactions right at the injection site.

That can mean things like pain there, or some swelling, along with redness in the area.

Description

Leutero 50 mg Injection includes Leucovorin calcium. This substance relates closely to the vitamin folic acid. It falls into the group of medicines called folic acid analogs. Doctors use this injection to lessen or stop the bad side effects from methotrexate. They give it during treatment for some types of cancer. It also helps patients who took too much methotrexate by accident. Or those who overdosed on similar drugs.

Leutero 50 mg Injection works along with other cancer drugs to handle colorectal cancer. That means cancer in the colon or rectum. Doctors might prescribe it too for anemia. This comes from not having enough folic acid.