Steroids cause weight gain and swelling in two major ways.
One is sodium metabolism disruption. So avoiding salt may help with this.
They also increase appetite, and when that happens people go to carbs mostly. Increasing sugar and carbs, causes the body to retain more fluid as well.
Depending on dose, weight gain is inevitable with higher doses for most people. Prednisone may also increase your blood sugar, so watch out for that effect (it stimulates the liver to produce glucose).
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