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| Product name | betamethason |
| CAS.NO | 378-44-9 |
| Boiling Point | 568.2 |
| Melting point | 235 |
| Flash(ing) point | 297.5 |
Betamethason is a corticosteroid drug, sometimes called a steroid. Steroids reduce the amount of inflammatory chemicals your body makes. They also reduce your body's natural immune response, which helps to control inflammation.
Betamethason is a corticosteroid that is available as pill, by injection, and as a cream.
It is used as a topical cream to relieve skin irritation, such as itching and flaking from eczema. It is used as a treatment for local psoriasis, as betamethason dipropionate and salicylic acid, or as the combination calcipotriol/betamethason dipropionate. Betamethason sodium phosphate is used orally and via injection with the same indications as other steroids. Many betamethason-based pharmaceuticals include the steroid as the valerate ester.
In a randomized controlled trial betamethason was shown to reduce some of the ataxia symptoms associated with ataxia telangiectasia (A-T) by 28-31%.
Betamethason is also used to stimulate fetal lung maturation (to prevent IRDS), and to decrease the incidence and mortality from intracranial hemorrhage in premature infants.
A cream with 0.05% betamethason appears effective in treating phimosis in boys and often averts the need for circumcision.
