ea0085p49 | Adrenal 2 | BSPED2022
Ahmed Aneeq
, Gopalakrishna Nagapratheek
, Hattangadi Ibani
, De Silva Shamani
, Ferguson Elspeth
, Elder Charlotte
Background: Limited data support concerns that corticosteroid use in pregnancy, for maternal health reasons, can suppress the neonatal Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis. We sought to determine if neonates born to mothers on high-dose steroids are at risk of adrenal suppression.Methodology: Our tertiary neonatal unit guidance advises that babies born to mothers receiving ≥7.5 mg/day prednisolone for 28 consecutive days in the 3rd trimester u...