The medicine "Prednisolone" (tablets). Instructions for use and description

Medication "Prednisolone" is included in the category of synthetic glucocorticosteroids, is a dehydrated analog of hydrocortisone. The drug has anti-allergic, immunosuppressive, anti-inflammatory activity. When ingested, the medicine is absorbed very well. For a maximum of two hours, the content of the agent in the plasma reaches its highest level. Metabolism occurs mainly in the liver and partly in the kidney system. The withdrawal from the body is carried out with urine. The drug is found in a small amount in breast milk, penetrates the placental barrier.

The medicine "Prednisolone" (tablets). Instructions for use. Indications

The medication is prescribed for rheumatic fever, small chorea, rheumatic carditis. The agent is recommended for pathologies in connective tissue of a systemic nature: with dermatomyositis, nodular periarteritis, scleroderma, and lupus erythematosus. Indications include multiple sclerosis, inflammatory processes in the joints of chronic and acute course. A remedy is also prescribed for diseases such as epicondylitis, synovitis, bursitis, Still's syndrome, osteoarthritis (post-traumatic including), humeropathy periarthritis, psoriatic, juvenile, gouty and rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis. The medication "Prednisolone" (pills) is recommended for asthmatic status, bronchial asthma, interstitial pathologies of the lungs (sarcoidosis of 2-3 degrees, fibrosis, acute alveolitis), lung cancer. The drug is prescribed for aspiration (in combination with specific treatment), Leffler's eosinophilic pneumonia , berylliosis, tuberculosis (in combination with specific treatment), hyperplasia, secondary and primary insufficiency in the adrenal glands (including the states after their removal). To the indications for the prescription of the drug "Prednisolone" (pills) (expert reviews confirm this) should include autoimmune pathologies, hypoglycemic conditions. Also, the drug is prescribed for hepatitis, allergic diseases of acute and chronic type, inflammatory lesions of the digestive system, nephrotic syndrome, organ diseases and hematopoiesis. Medication "Prednisolone" (pills) instruction for use recommends for skin pathologies of autoimmune and other nature. In particular, a medicament is prescribed for exfoliative, herpetiform bullous dermatitis, pemphigus, Lyell syndrome, psoriasis, eczema.

The drug is prescribed for hypercalcemia with oncological pathologies, eye diseases, edema of the brain post-traumatic, postradiation, postoperative period. The drug is recommended to prevent and eliminate the feeling of nausea or vomiting on the soil of cytostatic therapy, as well as preventing the rejection of the transplant.

Dosing regimen

Medication "Prednisolone" (tablets) instruction for use recommends taking in, without chewing. As a replacement therapy, the drug is prescribed for 20-30 mg. Supportive doses - 5-10 mg. Depending on the patient's condition, the initial amount of the drug can be from 15 to 100 mg. The drug "Prednisolone" (tablets) for children is prescribed at 1-2 mg / kg. The received amount is divided into four to six receptions. The maintenance dose per day is 300-600 mcg / kg.