Dexamethasone has a longer half-life than prednisone or prednisolone and tastes better in liquid form; therefore, substitution of dexamethasone for prednisone/prednisolone may result in better patient ...

asthma The rate of relapse was found to be only slightly higher in asthma patients treated with a single dose of oral dexamethasone in the ER versus a 5-day course of prednisone The rate of relapse ...

Prednisone is a versatile medication — but it has a few potential side effects. Does prednisone cause hair loss? It's possible, though there's not much evidence to confirm it. You may have been ...

For children who have uncontrolled asthma despite the use of low-dose inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), evidence to guide step-up therapy is lacking. We randomly assigned 182 children (6 to 17 years of ...

Adults with asthma who were treated with one-dose dexamethasone in the emergency department had only slightly higher relapse than patients who were treated with a five-day course of prednisone. Adults ...

Patients receiving mepolizumab "markedly reduced" their use of prednisone without their asthma getting any worse, O'Byrne said. By comparison, patients in the placebo group had their asthma flare up ...

ANAHEIM, California — The number of prescriptions for prednisone has been increasing steadily since 2000 in the United States, and not all prescriptions are appropriate, researchers reported in a ...

Last year, I had three six- to eight-day stays in the hospital for asthma, pneumonia, a severe skin infection (cellulitis) and then H1N1. I was on prednisone just before each incident. My immune ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients used between 5 mg and 40 mg of oral corticosteroids each day for 3 months before the study. 82.2% of ...