General preventive measures
- use the minimal effective dose of corticosteroids
- use locally acting treatment i.e. inhaled steroids, wherever possible
- consider the use of deflazacort for children receiving long courses of steroids, providing the treating physician is satisfied of deflazacort's efficacy in controlling the primary disease
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