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By James Goodwin MD. The classic recommendation for initial treatment of temporal arteritis has been to commence with prednisone at a dosage of 40 to 80 mg/day, though 60 mg/day or above has been more commonly described than lower doses.f headache or other signs of temporal arteritis emerge during the course of polymyalgia rheumatica, however, it is important to increase the prednisone dosage to the levels recommended for initial treatment of temporal arteritis.
Prednisone is indicated for patients with widespread inflammation who are very uncomfortable. Wet compresses are still used even if the patient requires prednisone. A typical dose of prednisone for the average size adult is prednisone 20 mg twice a day for 7-10 days followed by 20 mg a day in the morning for 3 days. That program should be adequate to treat most cases of poison ivy. Patients treated with steroid dose packs in which the dosage of prednisone or a similar oral steroid is rapidly decreased over several days will probably respond. However others may not improve or even get worse with this low dose rapid taper program.