Posted by ed_uk2010 on April 30, 2010, at 14:30:46
In reply to Re: Prednisone and Immediate AD Response » ed_uk2010, posted by sigismund on April 28, 2010, at 18:46:08
>Doctors and pharmacists sometimes say (patronisingly, I feel) that the drug is not absorbed systemically.
Hi Sigi,
Beconase does not generally cause any systemic side effects. Only a tiny fraction of the dose is absorbed from the nose, but it is absorbed from the intestine after draining from the nose into the throat and being swallowed.
Once the drug has been absorbed, it is very rapidly metabolised and cleared from the body. The result of this is that standard therapeutic doses do not normally cause any side effects apart from local reactions eg. nasal dryness.
poster:ed_uk2010
thread:945160
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20100425/msgs/945756.html