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Sinus and allergy problems
I recently consulted an ent doctor due to high allergy problems and sinus . Doctor prescribed me with elcort 6 for 1 weeks and suggested an ige test . I got the report and I have ige level of 1200. Right now I am taking elcort 6. From website I saw it is a steroid and It has many side effects .is it fine if I take this medicine for 1 week ? Will I get some problems from it?
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Here I am Dr Vinay Swaroop ENT in Any case of Allergic Rhinitis Or Sinusitis Of Course Any Short of Steroids Does Help But It Is a Double Edged Sword Because Your Ige Is Raised You Should Have Some Allergic Cum Decongestant Tab And Vitc Also You can Have Corticosteroids Plus Antiallergic In Nasal Spray Form you Should Also Go For CBC Just to see Eosinophilia Level and In Nasal discharge Also FOR This Test You can Protect Your Mucociliary Nasal Blanket By Saline Nasal Spray Carboxycellulose Methy Nasal Spray Or See A doctor Or By Video conferencing
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Dr. Gladson Guddappa Uchil
ENT/ Otorhinolaryngologist
26 yrs exp
Bangalore
Corticosteroids are safely administered as intranasal metered dose sprays in minute doses(each puff containing about 50 micrograms of the medicine).
Oral administration is highly inefficient as only 2% of the medicine reaches the targeted site and the rest cause unnecessary side effects elsewhere in the body.
Oral steroids however do have a role to play in treating severe sinonasal polyps but at a much higher dosage for a very short period just to drastically reduce the inflammation as an emergency treatment. I am afraid your doctor's timid usage of such a powerful tool may not benefit you but instead cause unwanted side effects as you suspected.
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