Dexamed

Article "Dexamed"

Country of origin: Cyprus
Pharm-Group: Drugs with glucocorticosteroid activity

Manufacturers: Medokemi Ltd (Cyprus)
International name: Dexamethasone
Synonyms: Vero-Dexamethasone, Daxin, Decadron, Decdan, Dex-Allvoran, Dexabene, Dexaven, Dexasone, Dexacort, Dexamethasone, Dexamethasone "Hafslund Nycomed", Dexamethasone Nycomed, Dexamethasone phosphate, Dexamethasone-Lance, Dexamethasone-Ferein, Dexamethasone sodium phosphate
Dosage forms: tablets 0.5 mg, tablets 1.5 mg, solution for injection 4 mg/ml, solution for intravenous and intramuscular administration 4 mg/ml

Ingredients: International name - dexamethasone

Indications for use:

1. Addison's disease, congenital adrenal hypoplasia, adrenal insufficiency (usually in combination with mineralocorticoids)
2. Adrenogenital syndrome
3. Thyroiditis (acute, subacute), hypothyroidism
4. Tumor hypercalcemia
5. Shock (anaphylactic, post-traumatic, postoperative, cardiogenic, blood transfusion, etc.)
6. Rheumatoid arthritis in the acute phase, acute rheumatic carditis, collagenosis (rheumatic diseases; disseminated lupus erythematosus, etc.)
7. Inflammatory and degenerative diseases of the joints (arthritis, tenosynovitis, bursitis, epicondylitis, styloiditis, osteochondrosis, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, etc.)
8. Myositis, infectious-allergic bronchial asthma, status asthmaticus (i.v., i.m.)
9. Allergic and anaphylactoid reactions, incl. drug-induced
10. Dermatitis (contact, atopic, exfoliative, blistering, herpetiformis, seborrheic, etc.), psoriasis, eczema, erythema multiforme exudative, pemphigus, mycosis fungoides, erythroderma and other skin diseases
11. Brain edema (with tumors, traumatic brain injury, neurosurgical intervention, cerebral hemorrhage, encephalitis, meningitis, radiation injury)
12. Nonspecific ulcerative colitis, hepatitis, sarcoidosis, berylliosis, disseminated tuberculosis (only in combination with anti-tuberculosis drugs), Loeffler's disease and other severe respiratory diseases
13. Anemia (autoimmune, hemolytic, congenital, hypoplastic, idiopathic, erythroblastopenia)
14. Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (adults), secondary thrombocytopenia
15. Lymphoma (Hodgkin, non-Hodgkin), leukemia, lymphocytic leukemia (acute, chronic), agranulocytosis, plasmacytoma and other blood diseases
16. Nephrotic syndrome
17. Severe infectious diseases (with mandatory combination with antibiotics)
18. Multiple sclerosis
19. Non-purulent and allergic eye diseases (conjunctivitis, keratitis, iritis, iridocyclitis, blepharitis, blepharoconjunctivitis, episcleritis, scleritis)
20. Inflammatory processes after eye injuries and operations, sympathetic ophthalmia
21. Diagnosis of adrenocortical insufficiency, pituitary short stature (in children), affective disorders, incl. for depression

Contraindications:

1. Hypersensitivity
2. Systemic mycoses, amebic infections, active forms of tuberculosis, infectious lesions of joints and periarticular soft tissues
3. The period before and after preventive vaccinations (especially antiviral ones)
4. Obesity III-IV degree (inside)
5. Viral, fungal and tuberculous eye infections, acute purulent eye infection (in the absence of antibacterial therapy), diseases of the cornea with epithelial defects, trachoma, glaucoma (eye drops)

Restrictions on use:

1. Peptic ulcers of the gastrointestinal tract, peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum, esophagitis, gastritis, intestinal anastomosis (in the immediate history)
2. Congestive heart failure, arterial hypertension, thrombosis
3. Diabetes mellitus, ost