Can taking steriods be a cause of low blood sugar in children?

Tends to push it up: Steroid use in kids tends to increase, not decrease the blood sugar.

Possibly: Steroids tend to stimulate your parasympathetic nervous system (pns). The pns then makes your pancreas secrete insulin. Children tend to have very sensative pns (croup, asthma, allergies, hives, congestion, vomiting....)therefore it is possible that steroids can decrese blood sugar in children. Adults usually have less reactive pns and the steroids will tend to raise sugar in adults.