Terrifying withdrawal symptoms from eczema creams left one woman unable to leave the house — or even look at herself in the mirror. Daisy Malin was diagnosed with mild eczema when she was just a ...

A 23-year-old British woman with eczema says the skin condition “was controlling [her] life” and affecting her mental health after steroid-based creams failed to alleviate her severe symptoms, instead ...

A young Hawaiian boy suffered a severe skin reaction that included painful, oozing and sometimes bloody red scabs after his parents used a steroid-based cream that was prescribed to treat his eczema.

There is little awareness, particularly among clinicians, of the medical and psychological complexities of "topical steroid withdrawal"—the body's adverse response to the prolonged use of these ...

People with atopic dermatitis are taking to social media to share dramatic images of red, cracked, peeling skin that they blame on overuse of steroid creams. But their dermatologists may not agree.

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 21-year-old woman has been left with red, sore and bleeding skin after using just three prescriptions of steroid cream for her eczema. Sophie Cooper says she suffered with eczema as a child but when ...

There is little awareness, particularly among clinicians, of the medical and psychological complexities of ‘topical steroid withdrawal’—the body’s adverse response to the prolonged use of these ...