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Suggest Remedy To Reduce Weight

i am prescribed with wysolone from last two months......before i took this medicine i was too ean but now as i have started with this medicine i have become very very plumpy n my face started luking so round. and am getting my weight increase day by day ,even am gettting variation in my eyes..m very very worried about this as i m just 26 yrs.......please help......to recover from this..
Fri, 23 Oct 2015
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Good morning and welcome. You are on a steroid drug, cortisone based, and a typical side-effect is the formation of what we call the "moon face' which should go away when you stop taking the drug.

Monitor your sodium intake and keep it down to 2300 mg which ist about 1 tsp. of table salt, sodium chloride. That will reduce the common edema weight gain also associated with your medication.

The medication will cause you to have a very good appetite. Control this. Small frequent meals with planned low calorie snacks. Be ready for this. You might have to lower your calories and defininitely implement an exercise program to prevent the inevitable weight gain.

thank you for coming and I hope to speak with you again. I have a specialist portal you can feel free to use for any type of nutritional consultation here at HCM or in my tele- office in the US. Kind Regards, Kathryn Shattler, MS,RDN
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Suggest Remedy To Reduce Weight

Good morning and welcome. You are on a steroid drug, cortisone based, and a typical side-effect is the formation of what we call the moon face which should go away when you stop taking the drug. Monitor your sodium intake and keep it down to 2300 mg which ist about 1 tsp. of table salt, sodium chloride. That will reduce the common edema weight gain also associated with your medication. The medication will cause you to have a very good appetite. Control this. Small frequent meals with planned low calorie snacks. Be ready for this. You might have to lower your calories and defininitely implement an exercise program to prevent the inevitable weight gain. thank you for coming and I hope to speak with you again. I have a specialist portal you can feel free to use for any type of nutritional consultation here at HCM or in my tele- office in the US. Kind Regards, Kathryn Shattler, MS,RDN