What is Benadryl Benacort 64 Micrograms Nasal Spray

This nasal spray contains a medicine called budesonide. This belongs to a group of steroid medicines called ‘corticosteroids’.

• Corticosteroids help to reduce inflammation.
• This nasal spray is used to treat adults with inflammation in the nose caused by an allergy to pollen (hayfever). Symptoms may include sneezing and/or a runny, itchy or blocked nose.
• Regular use of this nasal spray can reduce inflammation in the nose and help relieve these symptoms.

If your allergy is also causing eye problems, you may need to take another medicine as well.

How to use Benacort 64 Micrograms Nasal Spray

The recommended starting dose is two sprays into each nostril in the morning. Once your symptoms improve, you may be able to reduce this to one spray in each nostril in the morning. However, if your symptoms return, you can go back to the original starting dose.

• Do not use more than 4 sprays in a day.
• Only use in the nose.
• Do not swallow.

Use this nasal spray regularly. Keep using it until you are no longer exposed to whatever is causing your allergy.

• You may not feel the medicine working for the first few days. It takes a few days to feel the full protective effect of this nasal spray,
• Talk to a doctor or pharmacist if you do not feel better, or if you feel worse after 7 days.
• Do not use this nasal spray continuously for longer than 1 month, unless your doctor tells you to.

Use in children: Benacort® Hayfever Relief should not be used in children and adolescents under 18 years.

What does Benacort 64 Micrograms Nasal Spray contain

The active ingredient is budesonide. This nasal spray contains 64 micrograms of budesonide in each spray.

The other ingredients are disodium edetate, potassium sorbate (E202), glucose (anhydrous), microcrystalline cellulose (E460), carboxymethylcellulose sodium (E466), polysorbate 80 (E433), hydrochloric acid and purified water.

Each bottle of this nasal spray contains 120 sprays.