Prednisone and the Inflammatory Host Response

Cesar: I think personally, I just have to say this personally, this is a tricky disease because you're going to be with this patient for months and months. So at the beginning, it really requires a real relationship, the way you have with any patient with a long-term illness. It requires trust, right? And so that's the first thing I always do with the patient. Cesar: Once I get the patient down to 40 milligrams, I start going down by one milligram of prednisone per week. The parasite seems to be exquisitely sensitive to basically revealing the antigen,. not having the proper inflammatory response just sets it off in the sub