Medixon Indications/Uses

Severe hypersensitivity reactions: Severe hypersensitivity or allergic reactions not responding to adequate treatment, including: Asthma bronchiale, contact and atopic dermatitis, serum sickness, allergic rhinitis, drug hypersensitivity reactions, post-transfusion urticaria, acute non-infectious laryngeal edema (adrenaline is drug of first choice). Severe acute and chronic inflammatory and allergic processes involving the eye, such as: herpes zoster ophthalmicus, iritis, iridocyclitis, choroiditis, diffuse posterior uveitis, optic neuritis, sympathetic ophthalmia, anterior segment inflammation, allergic conjunctivitis, allergic corneal marginal ulcers, keratitis. Severe dermatological reactions Pemphigus, severe erythema multiforme (Stevens-johson syndrome), erthroderma (exfoliative dermatitis), bullous dermatitis herpetiformis, severe form of seborrhea dermatitis, severe psoriasis, myosis fungoides.
Status asthmaticus: Suppression of graft rejection reactions Cerebral oedema Cerebral oedema due to primary and metastatic tumours, surgical and radiological treatment following cranial trauma.
Gastrointestinal diseases: To tide the patient over a critical period of the disease in: Ulcerative colitis, Chrohn's disease.
Fulminating systemic lupus erythermatosus: Shock unresponsive to conventional therapy of adrenocortical insufficiency. (Hydrocortisone is generally the drug of choice. When mineralocorticoid activity is undesirable, methylprednisolone may be preferred.)
Rheumatic disorders: For short-term adjuvant treatment in acute phase of the illness or in case of exacerbation in following conditions: Post-traumatic osteoarthritis, synovitis of osteoarthritis Rheumatic arthritis, including the juvenile form. In certain instances, low-dose maintenance therapy may be necessary, in which case it is advisable to transfer to oral or depot preparations as appropriate. Acute and subacute bursitis, epicondylitis, acute non-specific tenosynovitis, acute gouty arthritis, spondylitis ankylipoetica.
Tuberculosis meningitis: With appropriate antituberculous chemotherapy.