Revised and Updated Paperback Edition (2007) Approximately one million Americans a year take high doses of prednisone and related drugs to treat serious illnesses, including ITP. They may have unpleasant, and even devastating, side effects. In 1997, after acclaimed flutist Eugenia Zukerman was prescribed prednisone for a rare lung disease, she teamed up with her sister, Harvard specialist physician Julie Ingelfinger, to write the first book that helped patients deal with the side effects of the prescription. This book is an update to a resource that covers the
latest knowledge about bone health, the use of steroids for children, and new
steroid compounds, along with additional strategies based on their own
experiences and responses from other patients and physicians. The book includes
exercises, recipes, and tips based on personal experience. This is a practical
guide to making treatment with glucocorticoids as effective and trouble-free as
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