Who should not take Prednisone-5 Oral?
The following conditions are contraindicated with this drug. Check with your physician if you have any of the following:
Conditions:
- active, untreated tuberculosis
- inactive tuberculosis
- herpes simplex infection of the eye
- a herpes simplex infection
- an infection due to a fungus
- intestinal infection caused by the roundworm Strongyloides
- a condition with low thyroid hormone levels
- diabetes
- insufficiency of the hypothalamus and pituitary gland
- high cholesterol
- low amount of potassium in the blood
- a reduction in the body's resistance to infection
- psychotic disorder
- a disease with shrinking and weaker muscles called myopathy
- increased pressure in the eye
- wide-angle glaucoma
- clouding of the lens of the eye called cataracts
- high blood pressure
- chronic heart failure
- an ulcer from too much stomach acid
- a type of stomach irritation called gastritis
- diverticulitis
- surgical joining of two parts of the intestine
- hardening of the liver
- rupture of a tendon
- osteoporosis, a condition of weak bones
- decreased calcification or density of bone
- seizures
- visible water retention
- inherited deficiency of argininosuccinate lyase
- inherited carbamoyl phosphate synthetase deficiency
- citrullinemia
- infection caused by the varicella zoster virus
- measles
- ornithine carbamoyltransferase deficiency
- arginase deficiency
- exposure to the measles
- exposure to the chickenpox
- muscle pain or tenderness with increase creatine kinase
- broken bone due to disease or illness
- osteonecrosis, the death of bone tissue due to a lack of blood supply
- muscle wasting
- hyperammonemia associated with N-acetylglutamate synthase deficiency
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