From experience most health workers erroneously give hydrocortisone and other steroid analogues to relieve emergency situations like anaphylaxis and acute asthmatic attack.
Steroids acts via a slow process that involves transcription and translation of some genes necessary for the synthesis of appropriate proteins and enzymes necessary for therapeutic effect. The effects therefore are only detectable after a lag period of at least 30 minutes.
It’s also noteworthy that the toxic effects of steroid overdoses persists for long even after the drug has been cleared from the body as a consequence of the relatively slow turnover of most enzymes and . . .
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