In children, good response to a short steroid course is achieved in approximately 80 percent of cases.

Steroid containing agents should not be used for more than 14 days, as they may cause thinning of the skin.

Within five years, large American multinational pharmaceutical companies had acquired all six producers of steroid intermediates in Mexico, four of which had been Mexican owned.

In rare cases in which mastocytosis is cancerous or associated with a blood disorder, the patient may have to use steroids and or chemotherapy.

hydrocortisone is their inability to penetrate the skin through absorption and therefore not be effective in clearing up the affected area, thus rendering the hydrocortisone almost completely ineffective in all except the most mild of cases.

Hyperprolactinaemia inhibits gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) by increasing the release of dopamine from the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (dopamine inhibits GnRH secretion), thus inhibiting gonadal steroidogenesis, which is the cause of many of the symptoms described below.