Mild corticosteroids, like hydrocortisone cream, can be purchased without a prescription to help manage psoriasis symptoms. Prescriptions are required for more potent corticosteroid creams.

Skin flares up, apply medicine. Skin calms down, repeat. Eczema sufferers know that keeping flare-ups at bay means regular use of prescribed steroid creams on affected areas. It's a cycle we’ve become ...

Eczema has always been something I’ve struggled with. From the flaky skin that makes it harder to put on make-up to the constant itching, it’s always been there in the background. I’d always ...

One of the more popular remedies touted on the internet? Using a topical steroid cream on your face — cortisone cream, to be specific — to reduce swelling and redness. Though cortisone cream ...

A young man who used steroid creams to treat his eczema for more than 20 years has been left with excruciating, flaky skin after he stopped using it. Jordan Hendey, from NSW, was prescribed topical ...

Some were unhappy at their doctors for prescribing TCS, ‘I didn’t really understand…how come they continued prescribing [TCS] to me,’ others expressed distrust and felt that doctors were ‘salesmen for ...

A teacher struggling with eczema has detailed what it was like living with oozing, paper-thin skin after she ditched her prescribed topical steroid cream for the first time in almost 20 years. Belle ...