Rapaport said topical-steroid withdrawal was like any other dependency and she had to give up the steroid creams to get better: "Addiction is addiction. You're an alcoholic, you stop the alcohol." ...

A dermatologist prescribed the now 28-year-old a low-to-medium dose topical steroid cream with just one instruction: use as needed. She would place the cream on her rash, and the eczema would go away.

A dermatologist prescribed the now 28-year-old a low-to-medium dose topical steroid cream with just one instruction: use as needed. She would place the cream on her rash, and the eczema would go away.

Watch this brave woman share her ongoing journey with the skin condition Topical Steroid Withdrawal. Josie North, a card game designer, from Shropshire, UK, first experienced signs of Topical ...

Lauren Bell, who suffered with eczema as a child, said the skin on her hands had thinned after years of using topical steroid creams and in social media videos described them as “old man hands ...

She remembered a doctor telling her as a teenager that Betnovate, a high-strength steroid, “won’t hurt on your face,” and being prescribed 10 tubes of Hydrocortisone cream by another.

Common topical steroids include hydrocortisone, betamethasone, clobetasol, triamcinolone, and mometasone Many of these creams will mention corticosteroid or anti-inflammatory on the label ...

While I have managed my symptoms using topical steroid creams prescribed to me by my dermatologist, I’m constantly cautioned to use them sparingly or only in situations of severe flare-ups due ...

Using a topical steroid cream on your face — cortisone cream, to be specific — to reduce swelling and redness. Though cortisone cream is intended to be used on your skin, it’s not ...

Investigators selected 129,682 osteoporosis cases and 34,999 major osteoporotic fracture (MOF) cases and matched them with 518,728 and 139,996 controls (without osteoporosis or MOF) by sex and age.