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From: lynnef@teklabs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: cortisone
Message-ID: <2399@teklabs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Aug-83 12:19:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 31 12:19:48 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Sep-83 17:27:31 EDT
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There are some VERY good uses for cortisone.  There is a genetic defect
called adrenogenital syndrome in which the affected person does not
make cortisone.  There are several levels of this syndrome, from the
affected person only having to take cortisone at times of stress, to the
affected person having to take cortisone all their lives, and having to
figure out when to increase the dose because of stress.  The blood chemistry
(serum sodium and potassium) is all screwed up, and the cortisone regulates
this.  It is just recently that they came out with a drug that does the
regulation nicely so that the affected person does not have to eat a high
salt content diet.

-- 
Lynne Fitzsimmons
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