Skin Diseases: Steroid Drugs
Commons · Question 67249 · Tabled 11 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Katie Lam
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of topical steroid creams on (a) physical dependency and (b) withdrawal effects among users.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 18 Jul 2025
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has reviewed topical steroid withdrawal (TSW) reactions, and first communicated about these reactions in September 2021 through our Drug Safety Update, which is widely disseminated among healt...