近几年来,腎上腺皮质类固醇激素(簡称为皮质激素)用于临床日益广泛。对某些疾病确有良好的疗效。但是,长期应用常会引起一系列的副作用或合併症。如:精神和神經兴奋性升高,內分泌腺萎縮(主要是腎上腺皮质萎縮),招致糖尿病或使其恶化,引起高血压病,激发潰瘍病和穿孔,延緩創伤和骨拆的癒合,降低对感染的抵抗力等。根据文献所知,上述副作用或合併症并非由皮质激素的毒性所引起, In recent years, adrenal corticosteroids (referred to as corticosteroids) for the increasingly widespread clinical. For some diseases do have a good effect. However, long-term use often leads to a series of side effects or complications. Such as: increased mental and nervous excitability, endocrine atrophy (mainly adrenocortical atrophy), causing diabetes or make it worse, causing hypertension, ulcer disease and stimulate perforation, delay the healing of trauma and bone demolition, reduce the Infection resistance and so on. According to the literature, these side effects or complications are not caused by the toxicity of corticosteroids,