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...sure you visit before the pharmacy section closes for the night. There's also a limit to how many boxes you can buy each month, so families may need to plan accordingly. As an alternative, you may want to see a doctor about getting a prescription for a nasal corticosteroid spray...
Good news about the treatment of kids with nephrotic syndrome, the most common kidney disease in children. Treatment for the illness--corticosteroid drugs such as prednisone--can lead to bone loss in adults, but the drugs appear to be safe for these youngsters' bones. The authors of a study in the New England Journal of Medicine speculate that children with nephrotic syndrome who take oral corticosteroids--not to be confused with anabolic steroids, the drugs that some athletes abuse--don't suffer from osteoporosis because the drugs cause them to gain weight. Those extra pounds may stimulate bones to grow...
...CORTICOSTEROIDS: Shots of steroids, which reduce inflammation, can provide a short-term fix for joint pain. Continued injections, however, can worsen a damaged joint by masking discomfort and enabling you to continue destructive activities. Because their pain is limited to specific joints, osteoarthritis sufferers don't need the wider-ranging effects of corticosteroid pills...
INHALER ALERT Just months after researchers warned asthma patients that chronic use of corticosteroid inhalers may be linked to glaucoma, they now find that the lifesaving inhalers may also increase the risk of cataracts...
...Benson's view, prayer operates along the same biochemical pathways as the relaxation response. In other words, praying affects epinephrine and other corticosteroid messengers or "stress hormones," leading to lower blood pressure, more relaxed heart rate and respiration and other benefits...