While these techniques may be effective, they are expensive for maintenance therapy.

Sometimes after the initial treatment an ongoing maintenance therapy is offered.

It can be used as a maintenance therapy for long term use after initial response is obtained.

Maintenance therapy: This is the third phase of treatment.

A small Danish study showed that in 1984, maintenance therapy with cimetidine was already common.

For maintenance therapy for people who are dependent on steroids.

Because of the risk for significant side effects, corticosteroids are not used for maintenance therapy.

It is commonly given intravenously over a period of time followed by oral maintenance therapy.

Initial treatment is then followed by at least 6 months of maintenance therapy, which could be oral or vaginal medicines.

All but two patients were on some form of maintenance therapy (sulphasalazine/ mesalazine).