MP 20 MG BT 1

Product informations

The indications are those of general oral corticosteroid therapy when the parenteral route is necessary due to inability to take oral medication (vomiting, gastric aspiration, altered mental status).

  • Infectious diseases: mainly for certain cases of septic thrombophlebitis, severe typhoid fever (especially with confusion, shock, and coma), tuberculosis in addition to specific etiological treatment, acute stridulus laryngitis in children.
  • Oncology: palliative treatment of leukemias and lymphomas, multiple myeloma, many cancers, and as antiemetic treatment during chemotherapy, bone metastasis with hypercalcemia.
  • Nephrology: certain glomerulonephritis and nephrotic syndromes, collagen diseases and connective tissue disorders.
  • Allergology: severe allergic conditions, angioedema, anaphylactic shock.
  • Endocrinology: paraneoplastic hypercalcemia.
  • Hematology: idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (autoimmune), only by IV route.
  • Neurology: cerebral edema, tumoral or traumatic, palliative treatment of tumors of Graves’ disease.
  • ENT: laryngeal edema, suffocating laryngitis, epiglottitis, dyspnea.
  • Pulmonology: status asthmaticus.
  • Organ transplantation .