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Hello, If patient of covid 19 is now recovering.. during positive status of covid my dr. Prescribed me medrol.. and after 10 days of treatment he says now no need to medrol.. But other dr says do not stop medrol suddenly... It should be stop step by step or slowly slowly... What should we do?
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Steroids if used for more than 5days should be tapered off.
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Consult dr to tapering dose regimen
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do not stop steroid abruptly
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Reduce the dose slowly by half and stop it
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Dr. Maunang Bharadiya
General Physician
1 yrs exp
Ahmedabad
Tapper the half dose every 3 days
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Dr. Apu Saha
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5 yrs exp
Kolkata
Tapper the dose.
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Dr. Lakshmi Narayana Munirathi
Pediatrician
29 yrs exp
Hyderabad
Both seems correct. A course of upto 1 week is considered as short course and can be stopped at once. Also it depends on low dose or high dose steroid usage. If your usage is low dose can be stopped at once but if higher dose needed to taper. Means alternate day use and then increase gap to once in 2days and stop. Hope this helps.
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Dr. Anwar Hussain
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17 yrs exp
Gurgaon
10 days of Medrol (Steroid) sufficient
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That's why stopped suddenly
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