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    Topical Steroid Side Effects: Beyond Eczema and Psoriasis - Understanding Topical Steroid Addiction and Withdrawal: Skin Confessions, #1
    Topical Steroid Side Effects: Beyond Eczema and Psoriasis - Understanding Topical Steroid Addiction and Withdrawal: Skin Confessions, #1
    Topical Steroid Side Effects: Beyond Eczema and Psoriasis - Understanding Topical Steroid Addiction and Withdrawal: Skin Confessions, #1
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    Topical Steroid Side Effects: Beyond Eczema and Psoriasis - Understanding Topical Steroid Addiction and Withdrawal: Skin Confessions, #1

    By Suhein Beck

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    Topical Steroid Side Effects is an easy Q & A format that explains the most common questions of what are topical steroids, the important role they play in medicine, how they affect the skin and their profound far-reaching effects into the body.

    For over 65 years, doctors have emphasized their incredible benefits, yet neglected to disclose to their patients the truth and consequences of these powerful drugs that have been touted as completely innocent and harmless. 

     

    The book's Introduction / foreword by world renown dermatologist, Dr. Koushik Lahiri elevates the urgency of this information to the public and international medical community. Dr. Lahiri has been in the forefront of publishing textbooks clarifying the latest studies on the detrimental effects of Topical Steroid prescriptions for chronic conditions. In fact, he helped change the parliamentary legislation on not allowing hydrocortisone to be sold over the counter in India. 

     

    Beyond eczema and psoriasis is hidden another condition that is "iatrogenic" which means "caused by the medical treatment." A new phenomenon that has been buried away has recently been discovered and yet, denied by so many doctors.

    Even after adverse effects to the drugs have been reported back to the FDA, they continue to be used, misused and abused.

    Even when patients use topical steroids as prescribed by their doctors they can unknowingly develop an indescribable dependency on the drugs. 

    The various names for the condition(s) are Topical Steroid Addiction, Topical Steroid Withdrawal, Red Skin Syndrome, Red Burning Skin Syndrome, and Steroid Induced Rosacea. In all cases, the body develops a dependency on the infinite and continued usage of the steroids. Any cessation will trigger the body in an excruciatingly painful flare-up that is far beyond any original eczema or psoriasis condition that can be debilitating for years! Meanwhile, the same doctors that deny the existence of this emerging condition, continue to prescribe even higher potency and dosage of the corticosteroids, both topically and orally. 

     

    More importantly, this book attempts to help the reader become their own Patient Advocate. Armed with information, clinical studies, and many support resources, they can avoid the pitfalls and the love/hate relationship with steroids.

     

    The author, Suhein Beck is the CEO/Founder of ELAJ Skincare Natural Products that help with complex skin conditions such as ECZEMA, PSORIASIS, ROSACEA, and other related dry-skin problems.

     

     

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherELAJ Media & Publishing
    Release dateJul 15, 2019
    ISBN9780999623732
    Topical Steroid Side Effects: Beyond Eczema and Psoriasis - Understanding Topical Steroid Addiction and Withdrawal: Skin Confessions, #1
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    Suhein Beck

    Suhein Beck is passionate about writing, public speaking and inspiring a healthy, motivated life. When she is not running ELAJ, LLC., a natural skincare company, she is writing about the crazy, but true adventures of being a Circassian and Syrian refugee turned serial entrepreneur in the Land of Opportunity. She can entertain any audience with wild stories about instigating FBI undercover sting operations to hosting her own international talk show in the Mideast. Stay tuned to the never-ending adventures on Youtube.com/SuheinBeck and www.SkinConfessions.com and on Facebook on the ELAJ Media and Publishing Page

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      Topical Steroid Side Effects - Suhein Beck

      SECTION I - What are Topical Steroids?

      Chapter One

      The Undeniable Magic of Steroids

      QUESTION 1: HOW IS it that steroids are so amazingly effective?

      Answer 1: Yes - they are magical. Modern medicine has been able to make medical miracles happen thanks to steroids! They are known as anti-inflammatory drugs or immunosuppressants and can make things disappear. They can instantly give relief. They can stop the body from attacking itself. They can cure a cancer like lymphoblastic leukemia. They can help an asthma sufferer actually breath on-the-spot. They can stop allergic reactions cold-turkey.

      Without steroids, organ transplants would have been practically impossible. Glucocorticoids were one of the first classes of medications used to prevent rejection after solid organ transplantation. They help by allowing the other organs to slowly get to know the new organ or prosthetic without the immediate attack response system kicking in as if a new foreign alien was among them. Steroids allow an acceptance period for the original organs to accept the new kid on the block (new organ) to learn and tolerate each other's differences by suppressing the hyper responsive immunologic protection reactions to not occur right away.  For this reason, the medical community weighs the good they have done and respects the need for a system of tapering off steroids in a closely monitored manner.

      That's why you may have noticed drugs like Prednisone are given with strict guidelines to reduce oral intake each day over a period of time. This is key to allow all the organs and endocrine system to re-adjust back to their own normal activities, but nice and slow without causing another shock to any organs.

      Recently in the last 10 years, steroids are being re-evaluated in comparison to other newer drugs that may replace or substitute them. According to the American Society of Nephrology they have found stopping immunosuppressive prednisone even sooner after transplants was found to be safe to avoid serious side effects including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, cataracts, bone loss, increased bone fractures, mood swings and, in children, growth retardation.

      Many doctors accept that steroids were a necessary tool with maximum effectiveness for chronic  conditions like arthritis, psoriasis and eczema for immunosuppression previously, but many now suggest that they are no longer the best option. Especially with low-risk populations that can do well just as well without the side effects.  New drug therapies have been showing better results.  This marks an exciting new pivot point in steroid therapies. Could the future of medicine start crossing a new bridge towards alternatives? How does that translate to the topical steroid therapies for skin immunology? These are all questions we are starting to witness exciting answers to in our lifetime!

      QUESTION 2:  EXACTLY what are steroids?

      Answer 2: Steroids are synthetic versions of our own natural hormones. Surprise! Now here's a little fact. Most drugs are just the synthetic versions of what your body already makes. Because sometimes our body just needs an extra push or wake-up call to readjust itself.  Steroids are synthetically-derived hormones from plants like the Mexican yam that mimic estrogen, progesterone and yes, even the manly machismo hormone of testosterone. Birth control pills started out as simple variations of those basic molecules from a yam from a farm out in Mexico! The pharmaceutical manufacturers add a couple of basic variations to take something natural to be able to molecularly patent it, to make it proprietary so they can

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