Inhaled steroids reduce and prevent inflammation ... Strenuous exercise, the common cold and the flu, certain drugs—such as aspirin and ibuprofen—and stress can also cause asthma attacks.

Supplement with additional steroids in physiologic stress ... aspirin in hypoprothrombinemia. Potentiated by oral contraceptives. Monitor oral anticoagulants.

Most of the time we won't use injections without having a patient participate in other treatment options like physical therapy, oral pain medications ... by a cortisone shot, for example, but ...

ROACH: I have been diagnosed with low cortisol and put on 15-mg hydrocortisone tablets daily for life by my endocrinologist. I was told that if I get sick with an infection, I should double the ...