Children often are given steroids, but epinephrine is used in severe cases.

The doctors gave him steroids and other drugs that they said had stopped the rejection.

Stan wants Steve to be popular and gives him steroids.

And a third reason is that both mothers were given steroids before birth.

Anderson told the agents that he had given steroids only to "my little guys."

"We only give steroids when our backs are to the wall," Martin told me.

On the other hand, some doctors only give steroids and immunosuppressants alone.

"A lot of community doctors were very concerned" about whether or not to give pneumonia patients steroids, he added.

"But it's sort of like giving steroids to a child with gigantism."

On a side note, many parents are concerned about giving their children "steroids."