How Do Steroids Delay Wound Healing?
How Do Steroids Delay Wound Healing? Steroids have also been shown to affect long-term wound healing. Steroid doses of more than 30 mg/day inhibit fibroblast activity and therefore block tissue contraction as well as scar shrinking and shortening. Do steroids interfere with healing? Conclusions: Acute, high-dose systemic corticosteroid use likely has no clinically significant effect