Not to put too fine a point on it, but....I was hospitalized with pneumonia in one lung and pseudomonas recently and was given Merepenem (for the pseudo) IV and high dose prednisone for wheezing and asthma response and general inflammation of lungs and recovered from that quite quickly. So to be clear, you can receive prednisone in certain cases like this. (the pseudomonas was determined by culture to be susceptible to Merepenem (sp?)