How to Treat Myositis?
Medical Treatment:
- Have Gentle Exercise and physiotherapy
- Steroids are the main type of medication to treat polymyositis and dermatomyositis. It may include:
- Higher doses of steroid tablets (severe muscle weakness)
- Steroid creams (used to treat the affected areas of skin in dermatomyositis)
- It causes some side effects such as high blood pressure, weight gain, diabetes, cataracts, and osteoporosis
- Disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) such as methotrexate, azathioprine, cyclophosphamide or mycophenolate suppress your immune system and help reduce inflammation
- Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy: it may be needed in very severe cases of myositis were severe muscle weakness is causing life-threatening breathing or swallowing problems
- Biologic therapies which are widely used to treat conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis