Mometasone Furoate 50mcg Nasal Spray

What Is Mometasone Furoate Nasal Spray?

Mometasone furoate nasal spray is a synthetic corticosteroid used to treat allergy symptoms, like itching, blocked or runny noses, or sneezing. It helps reduce the inflammation inside your nose that’s associated with hay fever, year-round allergies and nasal polyps. This helps relieve sneezing, itching and a blocked or runny nose.

Can I Use Mometasone Furoate Nasal Spray?

Mometasone furoate nasal spray treats hay fever (seasonal allergic rhinitis) and perennial rhinitis. It also treats nasal polyps in adults over 18. However, you shouldn’t use it if you’re allergic to any ingredients in the spray.

Is Mometasone A Steroid Or Antihistamine?

Mometasone is a type of steroid that helps reduce swelling and irritation in your nose. Antihistamines work differently by blocking histamine, a chemical released during an allergic reaction. Both can help relieve allergy symptoms, but they work in different ways.

How Does Mometasone Furoate Nasal Spray Work?

The corticosteroid in mometasone furoate nasal spray reduces inflammation inside your nose by blocking the release of substances that cause the inflammation. It is absorbed into the mucous membranes of your nose, so it can work exactly where you need it. It also alleviates associated symptoms, such as sneezing, an itchy nose and a blocked or runny nose.

Alternatives to Mometasone Furoate

Mometasone furoate nasal spray isn’t suitable for everyone, so your prescriber may recommend an alternative treatment.

Other corticosteroid nasal sprays contain active ingredients such as:

• Budesonide
• Betamethasone
• Fluticasone

How To Use Mometasone Furoate Nasal Spray

1. Shake the bottle and remove the dust cap.
2. If using for the first time, press the pump 10 times until a fine mist appears.
3. Blow your nose gently.
4. Close one nostril, insert the nozzle into the other and spray while breathing in.
5. Breathe out through your mouth and repeat for the other nostril.
6. Wipe the nozzle and replace the cap after use.

Ingredients

The active ingredient is mometasone furoate.

Each spray delivers 50mcg of mometasone furoate (as the monohydrate).

The other ingredients are:

• Glycerol
• Microcrystalline cellulose
• Carmellose sodium
• Citric acid monohydrate
• Polysorbate 80
• Benzalkonium chloride
• Sodium citrate dihydrate
• Water for injection

Side Effects

Like all medicines, this spray can cause side effects, although not everyone gets them. Get urgent medical help and stop using the spray if you develop signs of a severe allergic reaction, such as swelling of the face, tongue or throat; hives; trouble swallowing; wheezing or difficulty breathing.

Common side effects may include:

• Headache
• Sneezing
• Sore nose or throat
• Ulcers in the nose
• Respiratory tract infection

Nosebleeds are also likely to occur in approximately 1 in 10 people with nasal polyps who use this medicine, administered as two sprays in each nostril twice a day.

Warnings

You shouldn’t use mometasone furoate nasal spray if you have a nose injury, have recently had surgery on your nose or have a nasal infection.

Speak to your prescriber before using this medicine if you:

• Have or have ever had tuberculosis
• Have any other infection
• Are taking any other corticosteroid medicines, in any form
• Have cystic fibrosis

They may recommend a different treatment.

For all warnings, up to date ingredients and side effects, please see the full Patient Information Leaflet.