What are the side effects of prednisone?

There are various chemical drugs that people often come into contact with and use in life. For example, there are many types of drugs for skin diseases, corresponding to many symptoms, and they are also the types of drugs that people use in large quantities. Prednisone is a drug for treating skin diseases and various tissue diseases. This drug uses chemical substances to regulate hormone levels in the body to achieve the purpose of controlling and treating skin diseases. Therefore, many people worry that excessive use of this drug will have greater side effects on the body. Let’s take a look at the side effects of prednisone. I hope everyone can understand.

Prednisone acetate tablets (prednisone) belong to the class of adrenal cortex hormones and are mainly used for allergic and autoimmune inflammatory diseases. It is suitable for connective tissue diseases, systemic lupus erythematosus, severe polymyositis, severe bronchial asthma, dermatomyositis, vasculitis and other allergic diseases. It can also be used for acute leukemia, malignant lymphoma and other diseases suitable for other adrenal cortex hormone drugs.

Commonly known as "buffalo back and full moon face" is one of the adverse reactions of using prednisone acetate tablets (prednisone), which causes centripetal obesity and fat redistribution. Therefore, it is best not to take prednisone acetate tablets for a long time unless necessary. When stopping this type of medicine, you should also pay attention to the method of "gradual discontinuation", otherwise it will cause the disease to rebound.

The use of prednisone acetate tablets (prednisone) by pregnant women may increase the incidence of placental insufficiency, neonatal weight loss or stillbirth, and has teratogenic effects in animal experiments. When nursing mothers receive large doses of the drug, they should not breastfeed to prevent the drug from being excreted through breast milk and causing adverse reactions such as infant growth suppression and adrenal function suppression.

Elderly patients, especially postmenopausal women, are prone to high blood pressure, osteoporosis and other adverse reactions when using glucocorticoids.

Reminder: Prednisone acetate tablets should not be used by patients with hypertension, thrombosis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, mental illness, abnormal electrolyte metabolism, myocardial infarction, visceral surgery, glaucoma, etc. It is contraindicated for patients with a history of allergy to this product and adrenal cortex hormones, and for those with fungal and viral infections.