{"id":10229,"date":"2021-04-15T13:07:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T13:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/?p=10229"},"modified":"2021-04-24T11:06:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T11:06:54","slug":"types-of-corticosteroids-drugs-and-their-side-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/treatments\/types-of-corticosteroids-drugs-and-their-side-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Corticosteroids drugs and their side effects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Types of Corticosteroids drugs & their side effects<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Corticosteroids<\/strong> are very effective in treating the cancerous patients. Corticosteroids are hormones and these hormones are very good to reduce the tissue damage. When a person suffers from cancer then cancerous cells start damaging the tissues inside the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corticosteroids<\/strong> are those hormones which make sure that the tissues are safe from the harmful activities of cancerous cells. When abnormal cancerous cells damage the tissues then cancer patients suffer from inflammation and that inflammation cause a lot of pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Corticosteroids are very effective in making sure that a patient does not suffer from the inflammation or damage tissues anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Corticosteroids?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Corticosteroids<\/strong> are a type of chemotherapy. In this type of chemotherapy doctors, give corticosteroids chemotherapy drugs <\/strong>to cancer patients. These drugs are steroids. Doctors have been using steroids since 1940 to treat the cancer patients. They are very effective for treating cancer. Corticosteroids <\/strong>are effective for advance stage cancer. They shrink the cancerous tumor and they yield good results. Patients who use Corticosteroids chemo<\/strong> actually have more chances of survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corticosteroids side effects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Though Corticosteroids<\/strong> is an effective type of chemotherapy treatment, still it does pose certain dangers to a patient who is going through it. Corticosteroids<\/strong> Side effects<\/strong> include nausea, vomiting spinning of head, diarrhea, tingling of nerves, damaging of nerves and loss of call. The major corticosteroids side effect is inflammation. A patient who is going through this type of chemotherapy may experience extreme allergy or inflammation. To cure inflammation a patient may have to take other Drugs. It is an effective treatment but inflammation is its major side effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the major side effects of Corticosteroids is that it can make a person obese. People who go through this type of chemotherapy for their cancer treatment are heavy in weight and they stay obese even after the treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Types of Corticosteroids<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Corticosteroids are of two types. There are corticosteroids, which doctors given to patients orally, and then there are corticosteroids, which doctors give to patients by injection. Corticosteroids <\/strong>are anti-cancer agents and they are very effective in treating the cancer patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corticosteroids Drugs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • hydrocortisone (Cortef)<\/li>
  • cortisone<\/li>
  • ethamethasoneb (Celestone)<\/li>
  • prednisone (Prednisone Intensol)<\/li>
  • prednisolone (Orapred, prelon)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Corticosteroids<\/strong>drugs<\/strong> are very effective in treating the cancer patients. Not every treatment is effective for every patient but corticosteroids are that type of chemotherapy, which gives positive results to the cancer patients. This treatment is effective in treating prostate and pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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