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Short course steroids and lowered immunity

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Canshopwillshop · 26/02/2020 16:59

Sorry, posting here for traffic in the hope that there may be some medical people out there.

My DS had a 3 day course of 40mg of prednisolone over the weekend as his asthma was really bad. It was a back-up course the Dr gave me a while ago to keep at home in case of emergency.

Anyway, my health anxiety is going through the roof because of bloody Coronavirus and I’m now worrying that the steroids will have lowered DS’s immunity and made him more vulnerable to getting it.

Does anyone know if this is the case or is it only an issue on higher/longer doses?

Thank you.

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Gilead · 26/02/2020 17:39

A short course will not lower his immunity to any great extent and things will be back to normal in a couple of days.

Canshopwillshop · 26/02/2020 18:00

@gilead - thank you so much! That’s good to hear.

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