Parents are fearful of steroids because athletes give them a bad name. Let's get this perfectly clear: The only thing your child's asthma medicine has in common with "performance enhancing" drugs is the name. Your child's medicine is an anti-inflammatory corticosteroid, derived from the adrenal cortex, the outer layer of the adrenal glands. It won't enlarge any body parts or grow hair where it shouldn't be.
They are NOT the same as anabolic steroids, which turn 97-pound weaklings into the Incredible Hulk or Jose Canseco, and are derived from testosterone.
Parents are fearful of steroids because athletes give them a bad
name. Let's get this perfectly clear: The only thing your child's
asthma medicine has in common with "performance enhancing" drugs is
the name. Your child's medicine is an...
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Dr. Paul Ehrlich answered:Parents are fearful of steroids because athletes give them a bad name. Let's get this perfectly clear: The only thing your child's asthma medicine has in common with "performance enhancing" drugs is the name. Your child's medicine is an anti-inflammatory corticosteroid, derived from the adrenal cortex, the outer layer of the adrenal glands. It won't enlarge any body parts or grow hair where it shouldn't be.
Parents are fearful of steroids because athletes give them a bad name. Let's get this perfectly clear: The only thing your child's asthma medicine has in common with "performance enhancing" drugs is the name. Your child's medicine is an... More
