Side effects of taking hormones

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Hormone is a chemical substance produced by a certain cell, gland or organ in the body, which can affect the activities of other cells in the body. Hormone is a kind of chemical information substance synthesized by highly differentiated endocrine cells and directly secreted into the blood. It affects the physiological activities of human body by regulating the metabolic activities of various tissues and cells. Take hormone side effect?

Side effects of taking hormones

Side effects of hormone drugs: 1. Obesity; 2. Osteoporosis and necrosis of the femoral head; 3. Decreased body resistance, increased blood glucose, corticosteroid syndrome, peptic ulcer, electrolyte disorder, etc. 4. Affect the development of children.

Irregular use of hormone drugs (random addition and subtraction, withdrawal, irregular withdrawal, etc.) is very easy to make the condition worsen again and again, or even difficult to re treat. It is more difficult to treat and recover once and again. Hormones and immunosuppressants have certain effects on sexual function. Long time and large dose of prednisone and other corticosteroids can aggravate the degree of sexual dysfunction. Almost all immune agents can make testicular atrophy, ovarian damage, leading to spermatogenic function decreased or disappeared, sexual desire disappeared, impotence. Tripterygium Wilfordii and Tripterygium hypoglaucum should not be used. Tripterygium wilfordii has not only non steroidal anti-inflammatory effect, but also immune or suppressive cytotoxic effect. It can improve symptoms, reduce ESR and RF titer. Tripterygium wilfordii polyglycosides 60mg / D can produce clinical effect in 1-4 weeks.

Side effects include irregular menstruation and amenorrhea in women, decreased sperm count in men, rash, cytopenia and thrombocytopenia, abdominal pain and diarrhea. It can be eliminated after drug withdrawal. The side effects of Tripterygium hypoglaucum are dizziness, dry mouth, sore throat, anorexia, abdominal pain and amenorrhea. Under the guidance of rich and highly responsible specialists, the patients should follow the law of disease occurrence and development, carry out hormone withdrawal, and adopt traditional Chinese medicine treatment, with ideal and stable effect. Hormone is an effective therapy for most patients, especially in the short-term acute active period, it is effective for controlling the progress of the disease, but long-term large-scale application, side effects are great, try not to use hormone treatment.

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Hormone, immunosuppressant and other drugs, such as prednisone, steroids, cyclophosphamide, azathioprine and other chemotherapy drugs. But these methods can not completely cure the disease, often relapse. Long term use of prednisone and other hormones can cause a lot of side effects, such as: ① centripetal obesity, full moon face, buffalo back, hirsutism, acne, hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypokalemia, osteoporosis. ② It can induce or aggravate the infection or spread the potential lesions in the body. ③ Induce or aggravate gastric and duodenal ulcer. ④ Can cause diet increase, excitement, insomnia, individual can induce mental illness, occasionally can induce epilepsy. ⑤ It can raise the intraocular pressure and induce glaucoma and cataract.