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What is dexamethasone?
Why is it in News?
- WHO Recovery trial reported that dexamethasone reduces death rates in certain covid-19 patients
More on News?
- It is anti-inflammatory drug – used to reduce activity of immune systems
- falls in a category called corticosteroids
- used in treatment for rheumatological inflammatory conditions: inflammations of muscles, inflammation of blood vessels, chronic arthritis, and lupus
- used in lung diseases, kidney inflammation and eye inflammation, and to reduce swelling associated with tumours of the brain and spine
- In cancer patients, it is used to treat nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy drugs.
- Drug - found to have reduced deaths by one-third in ventilated patients and by one-fifth in patients receiving only oxygen
- clinical management protocol for Covid-19 released by the Health Ministry of India allows the use of the corticosteroid methylprednisolone.
- Health Ministry protocol says a larger dose of glucocorticoid will delay the removal of coronavirus due to immunosuppressive effects