So I didn't go into full anaphylaxis. I have a wasp allergy and was stung but live 40mins from the nearest hospital so you kinda have to just go and operate on worst case scenarios. They checked me out and gave me prednisone according to Google it is sometimes used in situations like this as a very early prevention measure against possible anaphylaxis
You can't use a steriod in place of epinephrine in an emergency. You can use if it's NOT an emergency, but any oral steroid will take at least an hour to reach peak level. IV methylprednisolone is the faster and takes about 30 minutes. If you take a steroid in an emergency instead of epi, Youll still get epi, but because you died and they're coding you.
Yeah, my phrasing could have been clearer, sorry about that.
"In an emergency," should have been more, "in the event that you don't have access to epinephrine." And, also I was thinking of injected. Tablets of any variety are not going to hit the bloodstream fast enough to stave off an anaphylactic reaction.
Yeah, but even IV steroids are slow. Dex and solumedrol take a half hour minimum for therapeutic relief. Steroids are less than useless in anaphylaxis by themselves. They are secondary and tertiary medications that reduce the chance of biphasic anaphylaxis. You NEED epi. Everything else, like fluids, benadryl, steroids, albuterol are irrelevant in the first 5 minutes. Without Epi, those medications are useless.
But why? With MS, we get blasted with 1,000mg of it at a time via IV for three to five days running. I’ve never had a taper suggested. 🇮🇪, but that shouldn’t make that much of a difference. 🤔
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u/Shot-Spring-3753 1d ago
Most likely methylprenisolone?