Sweet's syndrome – a comprehensive review of an acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis

Table 10 First-line systemic agents for Sweet's syndrome

Corticosteroids
Prednisone	1 mg/kg/day (usually ranging from 30 mg to 60 mg) as a single oral morning dose. Within 4 to 6 weeks, taper dose to 10 mg/day; however, some patients may require 2 to 3 months of treatment or intravenous therapy [10,23,49,250]
Methylprednisolone sodium succinate	Intravenously administered (up to 1000 mg per day) over 1 or more hours, daily for 3 to 5 days. This is followed by a tapering oral dose of corticosteroid or another immunosuppressant agent [70,184,223,240,359-361].
*Potassium iodide*	Administered orally as 300 mg enteric-coated tablets, 3 times each day (for a daily dose of 900 mg) or as a saturated solution (1 gram/ml of water) of potassium iodide (SSKI, also referred to as Lugol's solution), beginning at a dose of 3 drops 3 times each day (9 drops/day = 450 mg per day) and increasing by 1 drop 3 times per day, typically to a final dose of 21 drops/day (1050 mg) to 30 drops/day (1500 mg) [17,20,23,143,198,361-363,368-374,397].^a
*Colchicine*	Administered orally at a dose of 0.5 mg three times each day (for a daily dose of 1.5 mg) [20,30,281,284,329,360,371,373,375-377,410].

^a1 drop = 0.05 ml (or 50 mg when the concentration of potassium iodide is 1000 mg/ml) when a "standard" medicine dropper (which dispenses 20 drops per ml) is used.
Source [1]: Adapted with permission from Cohen PR, Kurzrock R: Sweet's syndrome revisited: a review of disease concepts. Int J Dermatol 2003;42:761–778. Copyright 2003, Reprinted with permission from the International Society of Dermatology, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, United Kingdom.

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