Rheumatoid arthritis. Juvenile chronic arthritis. Asthma and other airway diseases. Pemphigus, Uveitis. Nephrotic syndrome. Immune suppression in transplantation.
Contraindication: What are the special precautions to be followed?
Under following conditions, use of this medication is inadvisable. Its use should be withhold as it would cause harm to the patient Hypersensitivity. Patients receiving live virus immunisation. Contraindicated during pregnancy and lactation.
Other Precaution to be observed while taking this medication
Adrenal suppression, Cardiac diseases or congestive heart failure (except in the presence of active rheumatic carditis), hypertension, thromboembolic disorders. Gastritis or oesophagitis, diverticulitis, ulcerative colitis if there is probability of impending perforation, abscess or pyogenic infections, fresh intestinal anastomsis, active or latent peptic ulcer. Diabetic mellitus or a family history, osteoporosis, myasthenia gravis, renal insufficiency. Emotional instability or psychotic tendency, epilepsy. Previous corticosteroid-induced myopathy, liver failure hypothyroidism and cirrhosis, Ocular herpes simplex.
What are possible side effects of this medication ?