WebMD Update: Dexamethasone, a steroid sometimes used for asthma, cancer, and rheumatoid arthritis, could reduce deaths in hospitalized coronavirus patients with severe complications by about a ...

You may report side effects to Health Canada at 1-866-234-2345. Before using dexamethasone, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to it; or if you have any other allergies.

Several of the palliative medications given subcutaneously are alkaline, including dexamethasone, esomeprazole, parecoxib, sodium valproate and tranexamic acid (alkaline, despite its name). Because pH ...

Dexamethasone phosphate (as sodium); 4mg/mL, 10mg/mL; soln for IV or IM inj; contains sulfites. Potentiated by CYP3A4 inhibitors (eg, ketoconazole, macrolides), cyclosporine, estrogens.

Yet, for example, when ceftriaxone sodium is diluted in lactated Ringer's injection, precipitation can occur despite the alkaline pH of lactated ... 21 OH group of dexamethasone, and the hydrogens ...

Dexamethasone has been the corticosteroid of choice in this patient population because of its high potency relative to other agents, its low mineralocorticoid (sodium retaining) effect ...