Toddler develops 'steroid addiction' after having treatment for eczema

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It was so bad that he was forced to sleep with socks taped to his hands so he wouldn’t scratch his eczema-prone skin.

It’s possible for the skin to get so used to steroids that it struggles without it after long periods A mum claims doctors ‘failed to warn them’ that her son’s skin could become ‘addicted’ to steroid cream, resulting in painful, weeping sores.

Mum Savannah LaQua, 25, started applying the cream on his body at four months old to treat mild eczema.To her horror, she noticed weeping sores and scabs erupt all over his body due to Topical Steroid Withdrawal. Savannah, from Forest Lake, Minnesota, US, says: ‘About two months after we completely stopped using the cream, he started to get red rashes and bumps and they were just getting worse every day.

 

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