Fore Safe Use

If you will be using this drug for more than a few weeks, your family doctor must check your progress at regular appointments.

Check with your family doctor :

• if signs of a nose, sinus, or throat infection occur.
• if your symptoms do not improve within 7 days - for dexamethasone or within 3 weeks - for beclomethasone, budesonide, flunisolide, fluticasone, mometasone, or triamcinolone.
• if your condition gets worse.

When you are being treated with dexamethasone and after you stop treat with it, do not have any immunizations - vaccinations without your family doctor's approval. Dexamethasone may lower your body's resistance and there is a risk you may get the infection the immunization is meant to prevent. In addition, other people living in your household must not take or have recently taken oral polio vaccine since there is a risk they could pass the polio virus on to you. Always avoid other people who have taken oral polio vaccine. Don't get close to them and do not stay in the same room with them for very long. If you can't take these precautions, you must consider wearing a protective face mask that covers the nose and mouth.