son,son, son

What the heck is that title?

Maybe there are many of you asking that. And opik will answer "because, with that title, opik wants to talk about Corticosteroids, which many of them has "son" ends, like bethamethason, prednison, prednisolon, momethason, corthison, hydrocorthison, etc, although there are some who doesn't like budesonide

Then, what's so interesting about these "son's". We..because these are "god" drugs, Why? because if you have these drugs when you "feel" sick, you immediately feel the effect, it doesn't hurt anymore, and suddenly you feel good again.

But, is it really the case?...this is where many of us is trapped, we already feel good, but we still have the disease. These "sons" cure the symptoms, the pain, but inflamation, but the doesn't kill the cause of the symptoms, the pain, but inflamation

And, because people feel better after taking these drugs, they become dependent. Whenever they feel sick, they always take these "sons". There was a case a doctor who always give bethamethason to his patients, so they feel better, with the other medications that are needed,

The other problem is...we don't use it right. The amount we consume should be from the smallest dosage, and then add it if the response isn't adequate. If the response is adequate (of course before the biggest dosage that is allowed) , maintain it for a while, and then lower the dosage until the smallest. But people use it their way. They consume whatever dosage, they stop abruptly, causing bad effects that can be prevented if they use it right

So far, we have 3 problems: the disease is still there, we use it wrongly and we consume it whenever we feel sick. But take a look for the heavy side effects. our defense system is suppresed, we are more vulnerable to germs, moon face, growth inhibition (that's why "sons" can't be given to children), increasing blood pressure, increasing glucose in blood and this is the most important ; diminishing natural corticosteroid in our body (do you know Cushing Syndrome?)

Why is this corticosteroid so important? well, for us indonesians, there are so many herbal and jamu products that contain these "sons". when we consume these products, we will feel good, healthy, and all the disease symptoms gone. But that's a fraud, herbal and jamu products usually have a slow healing effect, they don't give effect immediately. Well, if you consume these these products for a long time, you'll get a bad knee a fat body.

So be carefull