What is Diprospan used for?
Diprospan is a combination steroid injection containing two salts of betamethasone (betamethasone dipropionate and betamethasone sodium phosphate) that may be used to treat a wide range of inflammatory conditions that are typically responsive to corticosteroids.
How much betamethasone does Diprospan contain?
Each 1mL of Diprospan injection contains betamethasone dipropionate equivalent to 5 mg betamethasone and betamethasone sodium phosphate equivalent to 2 mg betamethasone. The total amount of betamethasone per ml is 7mg.
Diprospan is available as a 1ml ampoule and there are 5 ampoules per box.
What can Diprospan be used to treat?
Diprospan may be used to treat the following corticosteroid-responsive conditions:
- Anemia
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Atopic Dermatitis
- Berylliosis
- Brain cancer
- Cancer
- Cerebral Edema
- Colitis
- Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
- Dermatitis (all types)
- Hay Fever
- Hemolytic Anemia
- Hypercalcemia
- Inflammatory Conditions
- Edema
- Gout
- Head Injury
- Leukemia
- Lupus
- Lymphoma
- Meningitis
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Mycosis Fungoides
- Nephrotic Syndrome
- Osteoarthritis
- Pneumonia
- Polymyositis
- Proteinuria
- Psoriatic Arthritis
- Pemphigus
- Purpura
- Rheumatoid arthritis and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
- Rhinitis
- Sarcoidosis
- Stevens-Johnson Syndrome
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Spondylitis
- Serum Sickness
- Temporal Arteritis
- Trichinosis
- Tuberculosis
- Ulcerative colitis.
Which countries is Diprospan available in?
Diprospan may be available in the following countries:
- Brazil
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Georgia
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Iceland
- Israel
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
- Philippines
- Russia
- Singapore
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Venezuela.
What is the equivalent of Diprospan available in the United States?
There is not a combination betamethasone injection available in the United States that is exactly the same as Diprospan; however, there is one that is very similar which contains betamethasone acetate with betamethasone sodium phosphate (Celestone soluspan).
References
- Inj (amp) 1 mL x 5's.Diprospan. MIMS https://www.mims.com/philippines/drug/info/diprospan?type=full#:~:text=Betamethasone%20(DIPROSPAN)%20Injection%20is%20a,treatment%20of%20corticost
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