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Article: Skin treatment causes rash. (steroid creams)
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- HealthFacts
- Article date:
- May 1, 1993
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The most popular treatment for skin disorders, steroid-containing creams and lotions, has been linked to a more than four-fold increase in the occurrence of skin reactions over the last five years.
The rise parallels the major increase in the prescription of these products, according to a report by Drs. Antti I. Lauerma and Sakari Reitamo of Helsinki University Hospital in Finland, in the April issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. The ...