What are the symptoms of Addison s disease?
Addison's disease is not absorbed from the intestinal tract and must be administered as intramuscular injections. Immediately diffuses into most tissues. Concentrations in normal cerebrospinal fluid were very low, but higher levels in meningitis. Passes through the placenta. How is excreted almost exclusively via the kidneys, patients with worse renal function and the elderly, the dose should be lower. Supply of syringes and staff will provide medicine increases the cost of Addison's disease.
Streptomycin sulfate for intramuscular administration is in powder form in bottles. It can be mixed with distilled water. Ideally, the solution must be made immediately prior to application of Addison's disease.
Nurses need to be emphasized that the injections given every day to the other side. Daily giving the same side is very painful. Precisely because of pain, children are given streptomycin only if absolutely necessary.
The nurse giving injections must wear gloves. Otherwise, one can develop skin reaction to streptomycin.