How Often Can I Have Cortisone Injections?

The properties of hydrocortisone for injection are a suspension of fine particles. After standing, the fine particles sink and shake to form a uniform milky white suspension.

Hydrocortisone for injection

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The properties of hydrocortisone for injection are a suspension of fine particles. After standing, the fine particles sink and shake to form a uniform milky white suspension.

Chinese name

Hydrocortisone for injection

Foreign name

Hydrocortisone Injection

Drug type

Anti-infective

Drug properties

This product is a suspension of fine particles

[Drug type] anti-infective

[Chinese name] hydrocortisone for injection

[Product English name] Hydrocortisone Injection

[Drug Interactions] Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory analgesics can enhance the effect of this product on peptic ulcer.

2. Can enhance the liver toxicity of acetaminophen.

3 Combined with amphotericin B or carbonic anhydrase inhibitors, it can aggravate hypokalemia, and long-term combined with carbonic anhydrase inhibitors, prone to hypocalcemia and osteoporosis.

4 Combined with protein anabolic hormones, it can increase the incidence of edema and make acne worse.

5. Long-term combination with anticholinergic drugs (such as atropine) can cause increased intraocular pressure.

6. Tricyclic antidepressants can aggravate the mental symptoms caused by this product.

7. When combined with hypoglycemic agents such as insulin, the dose of hypoglycemic agents should be appropriately adjusted because this product can increase blood sugar in patients with diabetes.

[Adverse reactions] This product generally has no obvious adverse reactions when applying physiological dose replacement therapy. Adverse reactions occur mostly in the application of pharmacological doses, and are closely related to the course of treatment, dose, type of medication, usage and route of administration.

[Drug composition] Hydrocortisone

[Children's medication] If children use adrenocortical hormones for a long time, they must be very careful. Adrenal insufficiency and congenital adrenal hyperplasia are exceptions.

[Medication for elderly patients] Elderly patients with glucocorticoids are prone to hypertension and diabetes. The use of glucocorticoids in elderly patients, especially postmenopausal women, is likely to worsen osteoporosis.

[Usage and Dosage] Intramuscular injection of 20 to 40 mg a day, intravenous infusion of 100 mg once a day.

1. Infection: Under the action of hormones, the sense that has been controlled can be activated. The most common is recurrence of tuberculosis infection. Application of hormones in certain infections can reduce tissue damage, reduce exudation, and reduce symptoms of infection poisoning, but must be treated with effective antibiotics at the same time, closely observe changes in the condition. After short-term use of this drug, it should be quickly reduced, stopped medicine.

2. Interference to diagnosis:

(1) Glucocorticoids can increase blood glucose, blood cholesterol and blood fatty acids, blood sodium levels, and decrease blood calcium and potassium.

(2) The effect on peripheral blood image is decreased lymphocytes, eukaryotic cells, eosinophils, and basophils, multinucleated leukocytes and platelets, and the latter can also decrease.

(3) Long-term high-dose glucocorticoids can cause false negative skin test results, such as tuberculin test, histoplasmin test, and allergic skin test.