Prednisolone Love/Hate It
I have a love/hate relationship with this prescription medicine. My son is on Prednisolone about 2 to 3 times a year for his asthma. Prednisolone is the liquid form of Presidone, which is a steroid.
Now the positive things about this drug is it does work! When my son is having a bad asthma flare up, I give him this drug for 5 days and it helps him breathe better in no time.
Now the negative side of the drug --- the side effects! This drug has some nasty side effects. Some of the side effects my son has experienced while taking this drug is moody, jittery (to the point he just can not sit still), increase hunger, weight gain and puffy cheeks.
Just 3 weeks ago my son was back on this medicine to help with another asthma flare up. This time though he had some side effects he never experienced before. He had flushed cheeks (it looked like he was running a fever) and headaches. He actually did not have the increase hunger or was he bouncing off walls. He was actually very calm and mellow, almost too mellow but it was probably because of the headaches the drug gave him.
So as I said I love/hate this drug. It really does work good for those that need it but the side effects can be hard to deal with.
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I agree, it does have some horrible side effects...it worth it though I got to say. When my son was little he too was on it several times a year. Once I took him in to the Saturday clinic and the Dr. could not believe his eyes...Josh was litterally climbling up me like a jungle gym and I could barely keep my eyes open from chasing him around for the past several days! The doc said, um he is always like this? I said just on this steroid; thank god tomorrow is the last day!!! Then brought all the interns in to see him as an example of what the drug did to kids, LOL.
I know about this drug. Actually, it helped me survive before I was diagnosed. I am now on oral prednisone. But it works.
I didn't realize that it had these kinds of side effects!