Antibody Cocktail in India: Monoclonal antibody cocktail has been the first successful treatment in India. The 82-year-old patient has been discharged from the hospital in Gurgaon a day after he was given a dose of monoclonal antibody cocktail. He has been discharged after giving him a dose in Medanta Hospital. Monoclonal antibodies mimic the immune system’s ability to fight harmful pathogenic viruses. Such an antibody cocktail was given to former US President Donald Trump when he was infected with Corona.
From the news agency ANI, Medanta chairman Dr Naresh Trehan told that such monoclonal antibody cocktails are given in plenty in the US and Europe. The experience with this is that when given in the first seven days of corona infection, 70 to 80 percent of the people who need to go to the hospital do not need to be admitted to the hospital after giving this cocktail.
What is this cocktail
Antibody cocktail is a mixture of two drugs that have the same effect on a virus. This cocktail is a mixture of antibodies that have a similar effect on the corona virus in antibody medicine. The antibody-drug cocktail Casirivimab and Imdevimab have been developed by Swiss company Roche in association with Regeneron and Indian company Cipla is its marketing partner. These proteins copy the ability of the immune system to fight the virus, which increases immunity. These cocktails act to prevent the entry of the virus into human cells.
How much will cost
The drug maker announced on Monday that this drug is now available in India as well. The cost of one dose of this for every patient will be Rs 59750. Each of the 100,000 packs of this Roche cocktail available in India can be used for two patients. The special thing is that this medicine can also be used on children above the age of 12 years.
Approval received from CDSCO
The Central Drugs Standards Control Organization (CDSCO) has recently given the antibody cocktail to the Emergency Use Authority (EUA). Apart from this, the drug is already approved in many countries of the US and the European Union. Experts say that this drug is also effective on the first Corona variant found in India.
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