Can you use a prednisone inhaler for poison oak?

My Daughter has poison oak for the bazillionth time. When she gets it she gets it bad, I take her to urgent care and they write her a prescription for Prednisone. It is Christmas time and I am already broke enough without the $120 Dr. visit and $60 for the script. but we do have a Prednisone inhaler from when she got a lung infection a while ago. Can she use this inhaler to treat the poison oak successfully?

2012-12-03T15:58:02Z

Thanks for the input, I have already phoned the urgent care as they were the ones to give her prednisone in the first place, they said since they are not her primary care they can't do a script with out a visit... she doesn't have a primary because we don't have insurance. As for the homeopathic stuff, if it were summer I would definitely go that route, but, she has a hard enough time in school. I can't just keep her home until I find a remedy that works. and PS it is an allergic reaction to a toxin... not because she has a low immune system. Guess one of our families Christmas gifts this year will be health :)

formerly_bob2012-12-03T15:26:28Z

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Inhalers are designed to deliver a low dose of prednisone to the lungs and nowhere else. This type of dosage is unlikely to be anywhere near the dosage that is required to reduce effects of poison oak. It would not hurt to use the inhaler at the prescribed dosage, but Its not safe to use the inhaler more frequently to obtain more prednisone. Even if she used a dozen squirts of the inhaler it would still just be a tiny fraction of the dosage needed. An effective dosage is anywhere from 50x to 200x the dosage in the inhaler, and that dosage would need to be sustained for several days before tapering off.

If the doc has prescribed prednisone for poison oak previously, its possible the doc might just phone in a prescription without seeing your daughter if you called the office and explained the circumstances. that would be your best bet. .

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ask and you shall receive2012-12-03T15:23:51Z

Why don't you call Urgent care and ask? It would be good to go to justask.com and
ask a homeopath about a remedy for the poison oak. Prednisone suppresses symptoms.
It does not go to the root of the cause. I have used homeopathy on my kids for 15 years,
doing the allopathic when necessary. Homeopathic remedies are cheap $9 at the health
stores. One of the main remedies for poison oak is Rhus tox. Homeopathy works by
matching the symptoms with a remedy that will cause those symptoms in a healthy person.

The remedy erases the symptoms in a person and unblocks more of the life force of
the individual thus boosting the immune system of the person. Your childs immune
system is low which is why she keeps getting this.

Go to homeopathy and more.com and this is an educational site- your can put symptoms
of a person in on there and see general remedies. Acute remedies are matched to
just the disease ( cold, flu , skin rash, etc)

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