Arginine Therapy for the Treatment of Pain in Children With Sickle Cell Disease

"Arginine will be dispensed intravenously (in the vein) in the standard dose of arginine as 100 mg/kg three times a day for seven days or until discharge.~* Loading dose: 200 mg/kg once~* Continuous IV: 300 mg/kg/24 hours"

Arginine will be dispensed intravenously (in the vein) as an initial bolus (loading) at each specified group dose once, followed by a standard dose of 100mg/kg every 8 hours until discharge or for a total of 21 doses of arginine, whichever comes first.

Arginine will be dispensed intravenously (in the vein) as a continuous IV infusion of 300 mg/kg/24hr