How to Taper Off Nasacort
Instructions
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Contact your physician. Side effects may occur while tapering off Nasacort. These include swelling of nasal passages, headaches and anxiety.
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Reduce Nasacort by one dose a day. If you take the drug four times, take it three. Do this for two weeks. Cut one dose every two weeks until you are no longer taking Nasacort.
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Try another method. Stop administering Nasacort in one of your nostrils. Administer as usual in the other nostril. Tape the doses as described in step 2.
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Use nasal opening strips if nostrils swell. Nasacort opens nasal passages. When Nasacort is not present, swelling may occur.
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