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The truth about steroids

When your child has eczema, do your reach out for hydrocortisone cream or other rub-on steroids?

According to Lynne Mc Taggart, in her book What Doctors Don't Tell You : The Truth...

Even the safest steroids topically applied have side effects.

How do steroids work?

"Steroids mimic the action of the adrenal glands, the body's most powerful regulators of general metabolism"

Steroids are powerful drugs and have saved many lives. However, they should be reserved as the last line of defence.

Steroids do not cure anything. Steroids "suppress your body's ability to express a normal response." Steroids suppress the immune system.

The side effects of steroids.

"Those patients taking only 10mg of prednisone daily suffered a decrease in bone density of 8 per cent after only 5 months of using steroids."

"Rub-on steroids have caused Cushing's syndrome in children as soon as a month after treatment has begun and inhaled steroids slow growth in children after six weeks."

"They (steroids) can also cause muscle wasting, hyperclycaemia, water retention, skin atrophy, bruising, stretchmarks, insomnia, serious mood changes, symptoms of schizophrenia or manic depression, osteoporosis, cataracts, glaucoma, menstrual problems, impotence, loss of libido, allergic shock, recurrent thrush of the mouth and diabetes."

Once you are on steroids, you also risk the possibility that your pituitary gland will stop producing ACTH, which is needed by your body during stress and to fight infections. 

A dose of 400-800 micro grams daily for children aged 3 to 5 years has produced significant growth retardation.

Steroids given to children can affect their cognitive performance.

Steroid creams aren't as safe as they are made out to be. 

"Evidence also suggests that topical and inhaled steroids can cause cataracts and glaucoma, ordinarily only associated with oral steroids."

"Rub-on corticosteroids can produce an array of serious skin problems, damage bones and organs and cause permanent adrenal suppression. They've also been implicated in Cushing's syndrome as soon as a month after treatment."

Long term extensive application of steroid creams can retard a child's growth.

Even Hydrocortisone creams, often used on babies with eczema can cause "thinness of the skin, stretchmarks, delayed healing and ulceration of wounds, suppression of adrenal glands and sugar in the urine."

So if next time you reach for that tube of hydocortisone cream for your kid, think again.

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