The best place to inject Praluent is at least 2 inches away from your belly button.
And if you have someone else give you the praluent injection, they can also use the outer skin area of your upper arm and it should only be injected into clear and healthy skin.
Alirocumab injection which is also known as Praluent is a 2 week injection for cholesterol.
The praluent or Alirocumab injection comes as a solution of liquid in a prefilled syringe and also a prefilled dosing pen to be injected just under the skin, once every 2 weeks to once every 4 weeks.
You should use praluent or Alirocumab injections at around the same time every 2 weeks to every 4 weeks.
Praluent is a medication that is also known as Alirocumab and is used as a second line treatment for high cholesterol in adults that have cholesterol that is not controlled by diet and statin treatment.
Praluent can also help adults with cardiovascular disease reduce their risk of heart attacks, strokes and certain types of chest pain conditions such as unstable angina.
The possible side effects of Praluent are injection site reaction, swelling of your nasal passages and back of your throat, influenza, urinary tract infections and diarrhea.
Praluent also known as alirocumab is made of two disulfide linked human heavy chains with each covalently linked through a disulfide bond to a human kappa light chain.
Praluent is made by recombinant DNA technology in Chinese Hamster Ovary cell suspension.