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"The sleaziest of drugs"

"Studies have shown that steroids can cause damage to the body even after the first dose."

These effects include suppressed immune system, growth retardation in children, increased susceptibility to infection, increased appetite, indigestion, nervousness, depression, Cushings Disease (fat abdomen and face, buffalo hump in the back of the neck, high blood pressure and muscle weakness), muscle wasting, hyperglycemia, water retention, skin atrophy, bruising and stretch marks, insomnia, serious mood changes, psychiatric disturbance, osteoporosis, cataracts, menstrual problems, impotence, loss of libido, allergic shock, recurrent thrush of the mouth and diabetes. There is no such thing as a safe dose.

Inhaled steroids are not “harmless” as medical professionals claim. According to a group of paediatric consultants from hospitals around Britain 400-800 ug of Becotide given daily to children aged between 3-5 years caused suppression of their adrenal and pituitary glands that was equivalent to an intake of 20-40mg of prednisolone. This dosage also caused significant growth retardation.
Ref: The Lancet December 1991

Low doses of inhaled beclomethasone, (400 ug per day of Becotide) reduce bone formation.
Ref: The Lancet July 1991 

Evidence suggests that topical steroids and inhaled steroid can cause cataracts and glaucoma, ordinarily only associated with oral steroids.
Ref: The Lancet November 1988 

Osteoporosis can occur within months. Steroids cause an eight per cent reduction in bone mass (the equivalent of having your ovaries removed) after four months.
Ref: Ann Int Med. November 1993

“Children who are on immunosuppressant drugs are more susceptible to infections than healthy children. Chickenpox and measles, for example can have a more serious or even fatal course in children on immunosuppressant corticosteroids.”
Ref: America's Food and Drug Administration

“Patients treated with systemic steroids for long periods of time or who have received high doses may have adrenocortical suppression.” Becotide can also cause candida albicans of the mouth, throat and occasionally the larynx. It can also cause bronchospasm.
Ref: Allen & Hanburys Ltd. Manufacturers of Becotide

Skeletal wasting is most rapid during the initial six months of therapy. Predisone dosages of 7.5 mg or more daily for six months or longer often result in clinically important bone loss and increased fracture risk. Most patients on long-term corticosteroid therapy will develop some degree of bone loss.

Ref: New Engl Journal of Medicine. 1983; 309: 265-268

Vertebral fractures have been reported in eleven per cent of asthmatic patients receiving systemic glucocorticoids for at least one year.

Ref: Arthritis Rheum. 1996; 39:1791 – 1801