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Black fungus query
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Does using methylpred 8mg once a day for 17 days and 4mg for 5 days to taper off comes under the extensive use of steroids causes black fungus?
Patient is not diabetic, bp or other problem. No oxygen support, no icu addmission. Age 56. Just recovered. Only weakness.
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Please nothing to worry.
As a precautionary measure please try to contact any ENT specialist and go through the clinical examination once and avoid giving sweet food items and cold food items and keep the room temperature normal level and tell her to take steam inhalation at least 2 times in a day with salt water gargling.
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Dr. Narendra Singh
ENT/ Otorhinolaryngologist
11 yrs exp
Nainital
As a ENT surgeon I can tell u that it's never the alone use of steroid causes this,
But in this wave this has emerged as a major causes along with immunity disturbances by covid infection.
U should be cautious since age of ur father is on higher side.
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feel free to consult with your history and symptoms which r worrying u about black fungus.
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