Treatments and medications for Addison’s disease aim at restoring and maintaining correct levels of steroid hormones in your body. If you suffer from chronic adrenal insufficiency, you require surgery to correct your condition.
Treatments and Medications for Addison’s Disease
New York (USA), June 27, 2013
Treatments Options and Medications for Addison’s Disease
Treatments and medications for Addison’s disease aim at restoring and maintaining correct levels of steroid hormones in your body. Normally, doctors advise you to increase your salt intake. This is more important if you suffer from gastrointestinal upsets like diarrhea, if weather is hot and humid, if you do strenuous physical exercises, and if you are excessively stressed due to any ailment, surgery, or infection.
Treatment and medication options include:
Oral Corticosteroids: Your doctor prescribes hydrocortisone (Cortef), fludrocortisones and prednisone or cortisone acetate to replace aldosterone and cortisol. You take these medications once or twice a day as prescribed by your doctor.
Corticosteroid Injections: Doctors advise injections if you are extremely ill due to recurrent episodes of vomiting and are not able to retain oral medications.
Androgen Replacement Therapy: In women with androgen deficiency, doctors suggest dehydroepiandrosterone therapy. This improves overall well-being and improves sexual functioning.
Surgery: If you suffer from chronic adrenal insufficiency, you require surgery to correct your condition. Doctors administer hydrocortisone and saline day before surgery and continue with such injections until you are able to take medications orally.
If women with primary adrenal insufficiency become pregnant, you are treated with standard replacement therapy. Hormonal injections are essential if vomiting and nauseatic episodes are frequent and troublesome.
Treatment for Addisonian Crisis
This is a serious medical condition as your blood sugar levels fall alarmingly leading to very high potassium levels and very low blood pressure. Treatment for such situation starts with intravenous injections of saline solution, hydrocortisone, and sugar or dextrose. This improves your situation immediately. Once you are well enough to have medications and fluids orally, dosage of glucocorticoids is reduced until maintenance level is reached.
Medic-Alert Tag
It is best to wear a Medic-alert tag as a bracelet. The tag details your medical condition. It elaborates and alerts health care professionals what medication should you be administered and in what dosage in an emergency. If traveling, you should carry syringe, needle, and injectable form of cortisol to treat yourself if an emergency arises.
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