Coping with Prednisone, Revised and Updated

Coping with Prednisone, Revised and Updated
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Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9781466845312
ISBN-13 : 1466845317
Rating : 4/5 (317 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Coping with Prednisone, Revised and Updated by : Eugenia Zukerman

Download or read book Coping with Prednisone, Revised and Updated written by Eugenia Zukerman and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately one million Americans per year take high doses of prednisone and related drugs. While these medicines may be necessary to treat serious illnesses, they may also have unpleasant, and even devastating, side effects, including changes in mood, weight, and physical strength, and vulnerability to infection. In 1997, after acclaimed flutist Eugenia Zukerman was prescribed prednisone for a rare lung disease, she teamed up with her sister, Harvard physician Julie Ingelfinger, to write the first book that helps patients deal with the side effects of the prescription. This welcome update to a superb resource—which is still the only book on the subject— covers the latest knowledge about bone health, the use of steroids for children, and new steroid compounds, along with additional strategies and exercises based on their own experiences and responses from other patients and physicians.


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