In children’s skin diseases, many diseases require the involvement of topical glucocorticoid medications. However, due to parents’ misunderstanding of topical hormone drugs, there are many cases of hormone drug abuse, and of course, some parents, especially those with a certain level of education, are afraid of hormones, thinking that topical hormone drugs cannot be used for children and will damage the skin. The proper use of the hormonal drugs, play a very good therapeutic effect, the use of improper, it is appropriate and may aggravate the disease, in this topical hormonal drugs to make a brief introduction. Topical hormone drugs are topical glucocorticoid drugs used to treat skin diseases, with anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic and anti-proliferative effects, used to treat a variety of skin diseases that are not bacterial, viral or fungal infections, such as eczema, various types of dermatitis, vitiligo, baldness, lichen planus, psoriasis and so on. The strength of topical hormone drugs is mainly evaluated based on their degree of skin vasoconstriction and inflammation inhibition, which are mainly classified as weak, medium, strong and super potent. In clinical practice, we often come across cases where babies have a lot of red papules under their necks or inner thighs, or pustules around their mouths and noses, and parents often apply some well-known “dermatophyllin” or “diclofenac cream” for their babies. The doctor often tells parents that those diseases are some fungal and bacterial skin diseases, is not to use hormonal drugs, with the use of only aggravate the disease. Parents often think that drugs such as “dermaplanin” and “pikang cream” are all-purpose drugs, as long as the skin disease can be used, in addition to some parents, they often regard topical hormone drugs as forbidden drugs, think a coating will damage the skin, in fact, these are a serious misunderstanding. Among children’s skin diseases, the most common are allergic skin diseases such as eczema, papular urticaria, seasonal dermatitis, as well as fungal skin diseases such as Candida dermatitis, lichen planus, ringworm, and bacterial skin diseases such as impetigo, boils, and sweat gland abscesses. In fact, only allergic dermatoses can use topical hormone medication, and various other infectious dermatoses are absolutely prohibited. As long as some allergic skin diseases are concerned, the use of hormone medication is perfectly fine, the main thing is to master a “degree”, that is, the time and dosage of using hormone creams. Of course, the use of topical hormone medication on the face and vulva should be more conservative compared to other parts of the body. Children use hormone creams, to master some of the following principles: 1. Strictly grasp the indications, topical hormone drugs are mainly applied to a variety of non-infectious skin diseases, such as dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis, white furuncle, pityriasis rosea, etc. Bacterial, viral, and fungal infections such as impetigo, herpes simplex, and ringworm are absolute contraindications to topical hormone creams. In general, all hormone creams have the following phrase in their instructions: “Children’s medication should be used under adult supervision” and “Long-term use may cause skin atrophy, capillary dilation, pigmentation, Long-term use may cause skin atrophy, capillary dilation, pigmentation and secondary infection”. One is the time of use, and the other is the amount of use. Generally speaking, continuous use should not exceed 2 weeks, and should not be used on a large scale. If used for too long, it may lead to hormone dependent dermatitis, in addition to local skin atrophy and capillary dilation, and long-term use on a large scale may lead to systemic side effects due to excessive absorption. 3, choose the right strength of hormone cream, topical hormone medicine according to its degree of contraction of skin vessels and inhibition of inflammation can be divided into weak, medium, strong, super strong effect, so you need to choose the right cream according to the severity of the patient’s condition, the location of the disease, the patient’s age, in general, infants and children only use weak and medium-effect hormone cream, in addition to the face, underarm, groin, genital medication time should not The duration of medication should not exceed 2 weeks. 4, the use of medication should be intermittent decreasing way, do not advocate sudden discontinuation, that is, after the control of symptoms with medication, can reduce the number of times and amount of medication, such as from twice a day to once a day, and then every other day, every two days, gradually withdraw the drug, and then some gentle Chinese ointment instead, do not suddenly stop the drug, so as to avoid the rebound of symptoms. 5, should not be used on broken skin and erosion. In short, topical hormone medicine is a double-edged sword, with the appropriate can receive half the effect, on the contrary, improper medication, may lead to adverse consequences. The dermatitis eczema category occupies a large part of children’s skin diseases, topical treatment, we generally advocate the use of topical Chinese medicine as the main, hormonal drugs supplemented by topical, especially for infants and children under one year old, can not overstate the use of topical hormonal drugs, but also can not talk about hormones, the child’s family should not abuse hormonal creams on their own, it is recommended that after seeing a doctor, under the guidance of the doctor’s medication.