Deflazacort Tablets 6mg
There is a condition of autoimmune disease where the immune system goes wrong and cannot distinguish between native and foreign cells. This disease makes the immune system start attacking healthy cells and organs, leading to diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Deflazacort is an immunosuppressive drug that attaches to immune system cells and inhibits the receptors which make the cells function abnormally or have adverse effects.
Through binding on immune cells, deflazacort suppresses inflammation and makes autoimmune diseases resulting from the release of chemicals called cytokines, responsible for causing inflammation.
Inform your physician if you have hypersensitivity or an allergy to Deflazacort before taking it. Additional precaution is needed when the patient has recently received a live virus vaccine or is being treated for a current disease (systemic infection).
Benefits of Deflazacort Tablets
- To treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- To reduces inflammation
- Autoimmune disorder management
- Helps in skin disorders
- Asthma
- Arthritis
- Allergies
How to use Deflazacort Tables
You can take this medication with or without food as your doctor advised, and just swallow this medicine whole without breaking or crushing it.
Storage
Keep in a room temperature
Side effects
- Increased weight
- Constipation
- Fever
- Nausea
- Frequent urination
- Stretch Marks
- Nosebleeds
Some of the rare and serious side effects:
- Bleeding under the skin
- Muscle weakness or tiredness
- Mood swingspancreatitis
- Seeing things or hearing
- Worse headache
- Swelling in the throat
To manage Side effects
- You should avoid spicy and oily food and stick to a simple meal while taking this medicine.
- Take plenty of fluids so you bowl movement will be good.
- Slowly eating helps you in relieving from stomach pain and easy to digest food.
Interactions
Interaction with Disease
- Tuberculosis
- Heart disease
- Stomach disorders
- Diabetes
- Osteoporosis
- Depression
- Mental disorder
- Kidney and liver problems
Interaction with the drug
- Phenytoin
- Primidone
- Rifampicin
- Rifabutin
- Carbamazepine
- Phenobarbitone
Interaction with Food
No interaction
Interaction with Beverages
- Avoid Alcohol
- Grapefruit juice
Safety Information:
- Deflazacort is not safe for pregnant women, so stay away from it.
- For breastfeeding feeding it is safe to make sure to consult your healthcare provider
- Some viruses get active after taking Deflazacort, like Hepatitis B, so make sure to do frequent tests of your body.
Habit Forming
NO
Caution
Regular check-ups of the liver and eyes are recommended while you are on Deflazacort treatment.
FAQs
Q1. Is Deflazacort safe when you are pregnant?
Ans. No, it is not safe because Deflazacort harms the fetus
Q2. While treatment with Deflazacort is habit-forming?
Ans. No
Q3. While taking Deflazacort, are blood tests necessary?
Ans. There are viruses in our body, like Hepatitis B, that may reactivate while treating with Deflazacort, that’s why tests are necessary.
Q4. Can I take the vaccine if I am on treatment with Deflazacort?
Ans. If you take any vaccine, it should slow down the immune response to the disease, so it live vaccine should be avoided.
Q5. What dietary limitations apply to deflazacort?
Ans. Grapefruit should be avoided while you are undergoing treatment with defazacort.
