I attended a lecture by our local ENT surgeon yesterday. He did a multi-choice ENT quiz live with 'cards in the air' & told those who said they would give steroid injections, that they were lawyer-bait....
That's been my opinion for the past 20 years, so I guess that's a no from me!
Use oral if you have to, 20mg/day for 1-2 weeks early in the season = my favourite bit of received advice about steroids in hayfever - good for exams, doesn't linger 3 months like Kenalog, and reduces the early sensitisation.
Mark
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From: GP-UK [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Graham Balin [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 20 May 2009 08:38
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Subject: Re: Steroid injections for hayfever
Saul Galloway wrote:
> It's that time of year again.
A good letter, Saul, but my approach has been to give for big exams,
wedding etc, but for 'routine' use I say:
"Assuming that the hay fever season is only a month long, and the
injection lasts that whole month, it still means that in 12 years time
you will have been 'on steroids' for a whole year."
They usually decline to have it after that.
--
Cheerio,
Graham
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