TRIBUNCREBON.COM- The dexamethasone drug is said to cure patients Covid-19 by researchers in the UK
It’s just that this is not a medicine that can be consumed carelessly.
Patient’s recovery Covid-19 this is after the patient is given standard therapy.
The patient was cured after being given a low to moderate dose of dexamethasone (6 mg / day) for 10 days.
Lecturer at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Gadjah Mada (UGM), pharmacist Ika Puspitasari, M.Sc., Ph.D, as many as 2,100 patients who were cured were patients Covid-19 are those who get oxygen therapy or use a ventilator (patients Covid-19 heavy or critical).
“On the website of Nature magazine, dexamethasone will not have an effect if it is given to mild Covid-19 patients,” he was quoted as saying on the page UGM Faculty of Pharmacy, Sunday (6/21/2020).
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Must be under a doctor’s supervision
It is said, the use of other corticosteroids is also commonly used in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) by clinicians, although not dexamethasone.
Corticosteroids used are methyl prednisolone (MP) 2 mg / kg for 32 days or hydrocortisone injection of 100 mg / 24 hours for at least 3 days.
ARDS is a manifestation of infection Covid-19 in severe to critical stages, so patients need oxygen therapy and even ventilators.
“For the use of corticosteroids, whether methyl prednisolone, hydrocortisone or dexamethasone should be used under strict doctor’s supervision,” he said.
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