Betamethasone

Betamethasone Soluble Tablets belong to a group of medicines called steroids. Their full name is corticosteroids. These corticosteroids occur naturally in the body and help to maintain health and well being. Boosting your body with extra corticosteroids (such as Betamethasone Soluble Tablets) is an effective way to treat various illnesses involving inflammation in the body. Betamethasone Soluble Tablets reduce this inflammation, which could otherwise go on making your condition worse. You must take this medicine regularly to get maximum benefit from it. Many different conditions can be improved by the use of corticosteroids, as they reduce inflammation (redness, tenderness, heat and swelling) in the body. Betamethasone Soluble Tablets are used to treat:

• Asthma
• Severe allergic reactions
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and polyarteritis nodosa; inflammatory conditions of the skin, kidney (such as acute interstitial nephritis or minimal change nephrotic syndrome), bowels (such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease) and heart
• Some connective tissue diseases
• Certain conditions of the blood
• Some types of cancer, such as malignant lymphoma
• Corticosteroids are also used to help prevent organ transplant rejection following organ transplant surgery.