Your body can sense when it receives a new object. A transplanted organ is another. Your body responds by wanting to attack the foreign object. It wants to fight it off. This process, identification of the foreign object and the body trying to kill it, is your immune system at work.
Medicines are critical to the survival of the transplanted organ.
Without them, the body will reject the transplanted organ. Frequent adjustments are often made in the doses of these medicines. Finding the right balance between side effects and preventing organ rejection may be difficult in some patients. Therefore, these drugs are very carefully regulated by transplant doctors, and require frequent blood tests and office visits. Common with these medicines May be improved with dosing changes Other side effects may require medications to treat them for a period of time.