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Suggest Treatment For Itchy Spreading Hives After Steroid Injection
Question: If a person was given a steroid shot for poison ivy and also given prednisone pills and is also on second tube of triamcinolone and now has itchy spreading hives and headache what should he do. Has had all this for one week.
Brief Answer:
Steroids in tapering dose is more helpful.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Welcome and thanks for posting your query to the forum.
I can understand your concern for the rash of poison ivy along with other problems.
In my patients with your kind of problem I prefer to give a tapering dose of steroids.
I generally start with two injections on first day then reduced to 1 on next two days. If there is presence of any rah or new lesions along with any systemic complaints then I continue with same dose for the time till there is any new eruption. If there are no eruptions then I taper the dose to half in two days and then to one fourth in next few days before complete stopping.
A single dose or shot of steroid is sometimes not sufficient to take care of complete symptoms.
So a proper tapering dose is necessary to take car of problem. Additionally proper hydration is also quite important to flush our body system and to remove the toxins from body.
I hope these informations will help you. I will be glad to answer any further queries.
With regards,
Dr Sanjay Kanodia
MD-DERMATOLOGY & Sexually transmitted diseases.
Steroids in tapering dose is more helpful.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Welcome and thanks for posting your query to the forum.
I can understand your concern for the rash of poison ivy along with other problems.
In my patients with your kind of problem I prefer to give a tapering dose of steroids.
I generally start with two injections on first day then reduced to 1 on next two days. If there is presence of any rah or new lesions along with any systemic complaints then I continue with same dose for the time till there is any new eruption. If there are no eruptions then I taper the dose to half in two days and then to one fourth in next few days before complete stopping.
A single dose or shot of steroid is sometimes not sufficient to take care of complete symptoms.
So a proper tapering dose is necessary to take car of problem. Additionally proper hydration is also quite important to flush our body system and to remove the toxins from body.
I hope these informations will help you. I will be glad to answer any further queries.
With regards,
Dr Sanjay Kanodia
MD-DERMATOLOGY & Sexually transmitted diseases.
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