Adrenal Disorders

Adrenal Insufficiency

Signs and Symptoms
Diagnosis
Treatment

Treatment

Adrenal insufficiency results in a lack of essential hormones, and therefore treatment focuses on replacing or substituting those hormones.

• Cortisol is replaced orally with tablets taken once or twice a day.

• Aldosterone is replaced with oral doses of a mineralocorticoid, called fludrocortisone acetate, that are taken once a day. Fludrocortisone helps to maintain the right levels of salt and fluids in the body.

Reviewed by health care specialists at UCSF Medical Center.
Last updated May 8, 2007