What DISPRED is used for?
Boosting your body with extra corticosteroid such as methylprednisolone can help following surgery (e.g. organ transplants), injuries or other stressful conditions.
These include inflammatory or allergic conditions affecting the:
- brain (e.g. tuberculous meningitis)
- bowel and gut (e.g. Crohns disease and ulcerative colitis)
- blood or blood vessels (e.g. leukaemia or arteritis, inflammation of the arteries)
- joints (e.g. rheumatic fever)
- lungs (e.g. asthma, tuberculosis)
- muscle (e.g. dermatomyositis and polymyositis)
- skin (e.g. pemphigus vulgaris, an auto-immune disorder in which the bodys immune system is overactive causing the skin to blister)