Triamcinolone   -   Synthetic Corticosteroid Drug

  
Manufacturers of Triamcinolone Injection, an synthetic corticosteroid.

  

 Action :

A synthetic glucocorticoid with little mineralocorticoid action. It has potent anti-inflammatory action and alters body immune responses. Given systemically triamcinolone exhibits the typical glucocorticoid acitvity including negative feedback suppression of the pituitary-adrenal axis. This may result in corticosteroid deficency in stress situations.

  

 Indication :

Bronchial asthma, allergies, dermatoses, rheumotoid, arthritis and other musuclo-skeletal inflamatory conditions, connective tissue disorders, and inflammatory joint disease.

    

 Contraindication :

Local/systemic fungal infections, septic arthritis herpes simplex, hypersens, lactation, peptic ulcer. Osteoporosis (long term use), H/o glucocorticoid induced myopathy.

  

 Adverse-Effects :

Acute adrenal insufficiency may be precipitated by infection/trauma in patients on long term corticosteroid therapy. Peptic ulceration, haemorrhage and perforation, glaucoma, hyperglycaemia, G.I.upsets, nocturia, increased appetite, obsesity, facial rounding, increased fragility of skin, behavioural changes.

  

 Special Precaution :

Infection near inj. site, diabetes, hypertension, CVS disease, renal impairment, glaucoma, elderly psychosis, delayed tissue healing, neonates, children, pregnancy, liver cirrhosis. 

  

 Dosage :

Oral

:

8 - 32mg daily in single or divided doses.

Intra-articular

:

2.5 - 15mg intra-articularly

Intra-dermal

:

0.2 - 0.3ml (10mg/ml). 
Alternatively IM deep :  2.5 - 60mg / day, then taper.
Children : 40mg IM.

  

 Strength & Packing :

10mg/ml  and  40mg/ml,  vial. 

  
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