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To: RWS who wrote (51436)	10/14/2005 1:44:02 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206177

Your body makes something like 20 mg to 25 mg per day of Cortisol, which gets released every day in the early morning say around 3 am to slow down the immune system, giving your liver a chance to clean up the mess so you're ready for immune operations the next day. Solumedrol is Prednisolone, the metabolized form of Prednisone, which is essentially the same drug as Cortisone and all other cortico-steroids, although they vary in strength relative to Cortisol. The suppressive effect on the immune system increases increased dose. Doctors use something like 60 mg to 120 mg of Solumedrol to shut down your immune system when a person is having a potentially dangerous allergic reaction. You'd have to look up the relative strength of prednisolone to Cortisol to see what percentage of your body's daily production that is. Too much additional glucocorticoids can prevent vaccinations for having the desired effect. I'd ask your Doctor if the level you're taking would interfere with vaccination when a bird flu vaccine is available. That's a lot more important than the dose you might be taking when the flu is "going around". .