TRIBUNNEWS.COM – The dexamethasone drug was called by researchers in the UK to cure Covid-19 patients. It’s just that this is not a medicine that can be consumed carelessly.
The recovery of this Covid-19 patient after the patient was given standard therapy.
The patient was cured after being given a low to moderate dose of dexamethasone (6 mg / day) for 10 days.
Lecturer at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Gadjah Mada University (UGM), pharmacist Ika Puspitasari, M.Sc., Ph.D, patients who experienced healing as many as 2,100 were Covid-19 patients are those who received oxygen therapy or using ventilators (severe Covid-19 patients or critical).
“On the website of Nature magazine, dexamethasone will not have an effect if it is given to mild Covid-19 patients,” he was quoted as saying on the page UGM Faculty of Pharmacy, Sunday (6/21/2020).
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Must be under a doctor’s supervision
It is said, the use of other corticosteroids is also commonly used in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) by clinicians, although not dexamethasone.
Corticosteroids used are methyl prednisolone (MP) 2 mg / kg for 32 days or hydrocortisone injection of 100 mg / 24 hours for at least 3 days.
ARDS is a manifestation of Covid-19 infection in severe to critical stages, so patients need oxygen therapy and even ventilators.
“For the use of corticosteroids, whether methyl prednisolone, hydrocortisone or dexamethasone should be used under strict doctor’s supervision,” he said.
“Of course, given the side effects caused are very dangerous,” he added.
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