Corticosteroid therapy
Corticosteroids are used to relive the signs and symptoms associated with many disease . Corticosteroid are effective in treating many disease and disorders.however, the long term administration of corticosteroids in therapeutic dose often leads to serious complications and side effects .for this reason,corticostriod therapy is not recomended for minor chronic condition .therapy should be reserved for diseases that have risk of death or permanent loss of function ,and for conditions in wich short-term therapy is likely to produce remission or recovery.the potential benefits of treatment must always be weighed against the risks.
A beneficial effect of corticosteroids in one situation may be a harmful one in another.for example,decreasing inflammation in arthritis is an important therapeutic effect,but increasing the risk for infection is a harmful effect.suspression of inflammation and the immune response may help save lives in persons with anaphylaxis and in those receiving an organ trans-plant,but it can reactivate latent tuberculosis and greatly reduce resistance to other infection and cancers.the vassopressive