Hormonal drugs often refer to glucocorticoids in clinical practice, such as dexamethasone and prednisone, which have anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive, anti-shock and anti-proliferative effects.
1. Efficacy
(1) Anti-inflammatory effect: hormonal drugs can reduce exudation and edema, inhibit leukocyte infiltration and phagocytosis and reduce inflammatory symptoms.
(2) Immunosuppressive effect: hormonal drugs can inhibit the phagocytosis and processing of antigens by substances and promote the destruction and disintegration of lymphocytes, thus reducing the number of lymphocytes in circulation.
(3) Anti-shock effect: hormonal drugs can inhibit inflammatory factors and reduce the systemic inflammatory response, which can reduce the sensitivity of blood vessels to certain substances and normalize hemodynamics.
2.Side effects
(1) Increase the chance of infection: patients with long-term application of hormonal drugs are easy to combine with the infection of atypical pathogenic bacteria.
(2) Affecting the endocrine system: hormonal drugs may cause hypokalemia, increased blood sugar, full moon face, buffalo back and central obesity.
(3) Affecting the skeletal system: hormonal drugs also have a certain effect on bone metabolism and the skeletal system, and the long-term use of large amounts of hormonal drugs may lead to osteoporosis.
Hormone drugs have a wide range of clinical applications, but there are more adverse reactions when used for a long period of time, so if you want to use hormone drugs, you must use them under the guidance of a professional doctor.