Harmful use of steroid lotions widespread in India: Dermatologist

Harmful use of steroid lotions widespread in India: Dermatologist
In India, the rampant abuse of skin creams and lotions that has steroids is dangerous and no longer possible to manage. This is based on the warning of a dermatologist from Gujarat-based.
Steroids, which are also called “corticosteroids,” are drugs that can reduce infection or swelling and used for different given treatments. But these can result to significant and constant harm especially on thin skin like on the face and the area between the abdomen and the thigh on either side of the body.
The secondary, typically undesirable effect of these steroids includes skin pigmentation and malfunction, tiny and expanded blood vessels on the skin and bacterial and fungal infections.
Abuse can result to resistance of infections that can it hard to detect and cure.
In India, the law ordered that steroids can be sold only with an authorized medical practitioner’s recommendation but current steroids are excluded and can be bought over the counter or without prescription.
Finally, apart from these problems, another issue that results to the abuse of current steroids is the limited availability of license dermatologist.
R. Rajan