Open AccessInevitable Impact of Steroids and Mucormycosis – A Review
Author(s) -
Nirbhay Mishra,
Sanjesh Kumar,
Monika Singh,
Siva Prasad Panda
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of pharmaceutical research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2456-9119
DOI - 10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60b34859
Subject(s) - mucormycosis , pandemic , population , covid-19 , intensive care medicine , medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , immunology , surgery , environmental health , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The human population remains in the threat of the Pandemic of COVID 19 till date with one another faces of it. The second wave of the pandemic led population into vain again with yet another danger of the third wave. The use of the steroids for controlling and treatment of the upsurge during the second wave remained a trend. The uncontrolled use of steroids invites the secondary infection mucormycosis also called black fungus which affected the population badly. Mucormycosis is opportunistic infection that acquired immune compromised patients with COVID 19 and steroids in treatment paradigm. Most of the patients with high blood glucose levels and diabetes faced this threat and created pandemic in pandemic again. The reviews focus on the positive and negative both prospects of the steroidal use and how steroids were the leading cause of the blowout of the Black fungus infection.