%0 Journal Article %T The routine use of oral steroids in paediatric asthma is not routine %A Brian A Kuzik %J Archive of "Paediatrics & Child Health". %D 2018 %R 10.1093/pch/pxy005 %X I would like to thank the authors of Physician and parent barriers to the use of oral corticosteroids for the prevention of paediatric URTI-induced acute asthma exacerbations at home, published in the July 2017 issue for their contribution in our efforts to understand and improve translational medicine; their opinions are valuable and welcome. Unfortunately, they have directed their talents to study barriers preventing physicians and parents from adopting a treatment strategy that is controversial at best and widely rejected at worst %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5951086/