Indications : התוויות

4.1. Therapeutic indications

By intramuscular or intravenous route
Dexamethasone Panpharma is indicated in the treatment of:
• Endocrine diseases such as nonsuppurative thyroiditis, hypercalcaemia associated with cancer and congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
• Allergy: Severe or disabling allergic conditions resistant to conventional treatments, as in: bronchial asthma, contact or atopical dermatitis, seasonal or perennial allergic rhinitis, hypersensitivity reactions to drugs.
• Ophtalmic: Serious inflammatory and allergic processes, acute and chronic, affecting the eyes, such as: iritis and iridocyclitis, chorioretinitis, choroiditis and diffuse posterior uveitis, optical neuritis, allergic conjunctivitis, allergic marginal corneal ulcers.
• Inflammatory Bowel dis.: Systemic treatment in exacerbations of ulcerative colitis and regional enteritis.
• Dermatological diseases (pemphigus, Stevens Johnson syndrome, exfoliative dermatitis, severe psoriasis and mycosis fungoides)
• Respiratory diseases (symptomatic sarcoidosis, berylliosis, Loeffler's syndrome)
• Haematological: acquired )autoimmune( haemolytic anaemia, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura in adult, pure red cell aplasia
• Nephrotic syndrome of the idioplathic type or that due to lupus erythematosus
• Cerebral edema caused by brain tumor, neurosurgery, brain abscess, bacterial meningitis
• Collagen diseases: Active rheumatoid arthritis with severe progressive course, fast destructive remitting forms and / or extra-articular manifestations, Juvenile idiopathic arthritis with severe systemic-onset form (Still's disease) or locally with no control, rheumatic fever with carditis, dermatomyositis, polymyositis, SLE, temporal arteritis.
• Infectious Diseases: Bacterial meningitis –adjunct to antibiotics in suspected Pneumococcal meningitis and TB meningitis. Severe infectious diseases with toxic states (eg tuberculosis, typhoid, brucellosis; Only with simultaneous anti-infective therapy( • Fetal lung maturation
• Chemotherapy –associated nausea and vomiting
• Multiple Myeloma –part of chemotherapy protocols (eg VAD)
• Prevention and treatment of acute mountain sickness/HACE