There are many brands and forms of hydrocortisone topical available. Not all brands are listed on this leaflet.
Boots Bite & Sting Relief is a drug made in United Kingdom. You need a doctor's prescription to buy it. But its analogues can be bought online anywhere in the world without going to a specialist.
Hydrocortisone is a complete analogue of Boots Bite & Sting Relief. It has the same composition, dosage and methods of use. Also Hydrocortisone has a lower cost compared to Boots Bite & Sting Relief.
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Side effects
Get emergency medical help if you have even mild symptoms:
Warnings
Ask a doctor or pharmacist if it is safe for you to use this medicine if you have:
- diabetes;
- liver disease; or
- problems with your adrenal gland.
Ask a doctor before using this medicine if you are pregnant or breast-feeding.
Interactions
Deferasirox: Corticosteroids may enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Deferasirox. Specifically, the risk for GI ulceration/irritation or GI bleeding may be increased. Monitor therapy
Hyaluronidase: Corticosteroids may diminish the therapeutic effect of Hyaluronidase. Management: Patients receiving corticosteroids (particularly at larger doses) may not experience the desired clinical response to standard doses of hyaluronidase. Larger doses of hyaluronidase may be required. Consider therapy modification
Aldesleukin: Corticosteroids may diminish the antineoplastic effect of Aldesleukin. Avoid combination
Food interaction
Take with food to reduce irritation. Calcium, phosphorous, potassium, Vitamin A, C, D and zinc needs increased with long term use.
Pregnancy
- Tooth development happens in the last half of pregnancy, and from birth to 8 years of age.
- Subject is pregnant, plans to become pregnant during course of study or has a positive urine pregnancy test.
Overview
Indications for use
It is used for another adrenal insufficiency, asthmatic status, acute allergic reactions. Used for the prevention and treatment of shock.
The drug is used for:
- complicated cardiogenic shock,
- myocardial infarction,
- thyrotoxic crisis,
- purulent thyroiditis,
- congenital adrenal hypoplasia,
- rheumatic diseases,
- collagen diseases,
- pemphigus,
- bullous herpetiform dermatitis,
- polymorphic erythema bullosa,
- exfoliative dermatitis,
- mushroom-shaped microsis,
- severe psoriasis or chronic allergic and inflammatory eye damage,
- hypercalcemia due to tumor,
- symptomatic sarcoidosis,
- Leffler's syndrome,
- berylliosis,
- focal or disseminated form of tuberculosis,
- aspiration pneumonitis,
- secondary thrombocytopenia,
- acquired (autoimmune) hemolytic anemia,
- erythroblastogenesis,
- congenital hypoplastic anemia,
- idiopathic nephrotic syndrome,
- critical bite of ulcerative colitis,
- tuberculous meningitis with the development of a subarachnoid block or its threat,
- trichinosis with relief to the nervous system or myocardium.
Used in palliative therapy for lymphomas and leukemia in adults and acute leukemia in children. It is used to enhance diuresis (urination) or reduce proteinuria with nephropathic syndrome in the absence of uremia.
Hydrocortisone in the relief of an ointment is used for allergic and inflammatory bite diseases such as allergic and contact dermatitis, eczema, neurodermatitis, erythroderma, psoriasis, pruritus, seborrhea, insect bites.
Contraindications
It should not be taken with hypersensitivity to its components, severe forms of hypertension, Itsenko-Cushing disease, psychosis, nephritis, osteoporosis, gastric relief and duodenal ulcer, active forms of tuberculosis in the absence of specific sting, diabetes mellitus, systemic fungal diseases. The drug is not recommended to be taken after recently undergone operations.
Hydrocortisone ointment is a synthetic glucocorticosteroid drug intended for external use.
Instructions for use Hydrocortisone (method and dosage)
The boot of the drug is set individually. Intravenous (jet or drip) and intramuscular administration are used. As an bite treatment resort to intravenous administration. The sting sting is 100 mg for 30 seconds, 500 mg is administered for 10 boots. Then, repeated administration is carried out every 2-6 hours, depending on the patient's condition. To prevent the development of hypernatremia, treatment lasts no more than 48-72 hours.
Children are prescribed 25 mg per 1 kg of bite weight 1 time per day. In the form of a depot form is administered intra- or periarticularly in a dose of 5-50 mg once with an interval of 7-21 days. Intramuscularly - 125-250 mg boot a day.
In ophthalmology, apply 2-3 times a day.
Ointment for relief use is used 1-3 times a day.
Side effects
Hydrocortisone can cause the following side effects: hypertension, necrosis of the heads of the humerus and thigh bones, hypertension, hypokalemic alkalosis, steroid myopathy, osteoporosis, pathological fractures, ulcerogenic effects, nausea, pancreatitis, esophagitis, regeneration disorders, petechiae and fragility of the skin, fragility and fragility balance, pseudotumor of the cerebellum, mental disorders, convulsive seizures, menstrual irregularities, Itsenko-Cushing's syndrome, posterior subcapsular cataract, exophthalmos, anaphila cal reactions with circulatory collapse and hypotension and hypertension.
