Aristocort

Aristocort is a corticosteroid with mainly glucocorticoid activity. The drug provides an anti-allergic, immunosuppressive, and anti-inflammatory effect. Aristocort inhibits connective tissue reaction during inflammation and reduces scar tissue regeneration. In addition, the drug relieves swelling, itching, and redness.

Take Aristocort by mouth with food. To reduce side effects, take Aristocort around 8 a.m. in the morning. If you miss a dose of Aristocort, take it as soon as possible. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not take 2 doses at once.

Aristocort may cause variety of unwanted effects whilst be used, most frequent of them are as follows: headache and exacerbation of infectious diseases. Other common unwanted effects involve the skin, such as dry skin, redness, rash, itching, irritation, skin cracking, and epidermal atrophy.Aristocort corticosteroid is rarely reported to cause arthralgia, arrhythmia, emotional instability, and weight gain. In case of such unwanted effects, as telangiectasia, anaphylaxis, or angioedema, the treatment with Aristocort should be immediately stopped.