Home Treatment

There is no home treatment for Rh sensitization.

Medications

Use of Rh immune globulin is 99.8% effective in preventing Rh sensitization.¹ Rh immune globulin contains Rh antibodies that have been purified from human donors. This treatment prevents an unsensitized Rh-negative mother from making antibodies against her fetus's Rh-positive blood.

If an affected fetus younger than 34 weeks needs to be delivered, corticosteroid medicine (betamethasone or dexamethasone) may be given to the mother to speed fetal lung development before a premature birth.

Surgery

There is no surgical treatment for Rh sensitization during pregnancy.

Other Treatment

An intrauterine fetal blood transfusion is sometimes used to supply healthy blood to a fetus with severe hemolytic disease of the newborn (also called Rh disease or erythroblastosis fetalis).

A newborn blood transfusion or exchange transfusion is sometimes given to treat severe anemia or jaundice related to Rh disease.