Docs warn of skin lightening creams

Docs warn of skin lightening creams:

British doctors have issued a warnig about illegal skin lightening creams after a case in which a women fell sick from using a product laced with a powerful steroid.

The woman was extremely obese, had thin, bruised, stripy skin and suffered from muscle weakness.

She had been trying unsuccessfully to conceive for the previous 18 months even
though she had regular periods.

The creams she used contained the steroid clobetasol, a powerful corticosteroid usually used against psoriasis and eczema.