Drug Name Erythromycin

Desired effects. As anti-allergics, immunosuppressants, or anti-inflammatory drugs, glucocorticoids display excellent efficacy against “undesired” inflammatory reactions. Unwanted effects. With short-term use, glucocorticoids are practically free of adverse effects, even at the highest dosage.
This property is exploited therapeutically when loss of blood necessitates refilling of the vascular bed, e.g., by infusion of dextran solutions. The vascular space is, moreover, predominantly occupied by substances bound with high affinity to plasma proteins; determination of the plasma volume with protein-bound dyes).

 

Drugs can be sprayed in aerosol form onto mucosal surfaces of body cavities accessible from the outside (e.g., the respiratory tract. An aerosol is a dispersion of liquid or solid particles in a gas, such as air. An aerosol results when a drug solution or micronized powder is reduced to a spray on being driven through the nozzle of a pressurized container.
Drugs that inhibit allergic inflammmatory mechanisms or reduce bronchial hyperreactivity, viz. , glucocorticoids, “mast-cell stabilizers,” and leukotriene antagonists, attack crucial pathogenetic links. Bronchodilators, such as ?2-sympathomimetics, theophylline, and ipratropium, provide symptomatic relief.