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Active ingredient: beclometasone dipropionate

Consumer Medicine Information (CMI)

This leaflet provides important accusation astir utilizing BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER. You should besides talk to your doc oregon pharmacist if you would similar further information oregon if you person immoderate concerns oregon questions astir utilizing BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER.

Where to find accusation successful this leaflet:

BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER contains a corticosteroid called beclometasone dipropionate which treats inflamed tissue. The tiny amounts sprayed into your chemoreceptor assistance to reduce swelling and irritation.

BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER tin beryllium utilized to dainty and forestall seasonal allergic rhinitis (hayfever) and perennial allergic rhinitis (due to airborne allergens) successful adults and children aged 12 years and over.

When you person rhinitis, the wrong of your chemoreceptor becomes swollen and itchy. This usually occurs during outpouring and summertime erstwhile it is caused by breathing pollens from grasses oregon trees. This information is called hayfever. Some radical get problems each twelvemonth round and this is called Perennial Rhinitis. It is often owed to location particulate mites oregon animals specified arsenic cats oregon dogs.

When you spray BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER into your chemoreceptor it helps to relieve itching, sneezing and a blocked oregon runny nose.

BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER is non-drowsy, and is not addictive.

For nasal usage only.

Do not usage BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER if:

you are allergic to beclometasone dipropionate, immoderate different corticosteroids oregon immoderate of the ingredients listed astatine the extremity of this leaflet.

Always cheque the ingredients to marque definite you tin usage this medicine.

This merchandise is not recommended for children nether 12 years.

Do not usage BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER aft the expiry day (EXP) printed connected the pack.

Do not usage BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER if the packaging is torn oregon shows signs of tampering.

Check with your doc oregon pharmacist if you:

Have precocious had nasal ulcers, wounded oregon country to your nose.

Have a inclination to chemoreceptor bleeds.

Have a nasal oregon sinus infection.

During treatment, you whitethorn beryllium astatine hazard of processing definite broadside effects. It is important you recognize these risks and however to show for them. See further information nether Section 6. Are determination immoderate broadside effects?

Pregnancy and breastfeeding

Check with your doc oregon pharmacist if you are large oregon mean to go pregnant.

Talk to your doc oregon pharmacist if you are breastfeeding oregon mean to breastfeed.

Tell your doc oregon pharmacist if you are taking immoderate different medicines, including any medicines, vitamins oregon supplements that you bargain without a medicine from your pharmacy, supermarket oregon wellness nutrient shop.

Some medicines and BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER whitethorn interfere with each different and affect however medicines work.

Check with your doc oregon pharmacist if you are not definite astir what medicines, vitamins oregon supplements you are taking and if these impact BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER .

How overmuch to use

If your BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER is caller and you person not utilized it before, oregon if you person not utilized it for 1 week oregon more, you should premier the vessel by spraying a fewer times into the aerial earlier use.

For adults and children aged 12 and over, the accustomed dose is 2 sprays into each nostril doubly daily.

Once your symptoms person improved you whitethorn beryllium capable to halve the dose to 1 spray into each nostril doubly a day.

If symptoms get worse again, the dosage whitethorn beryllium accrued to 2 sprays into each nostril doubly a day.

Try to usage the lowest dose to power your symptoms.

Follow the instructions provided with the medicine.

Do not transcend the recommended dosage. Do not usage much than 2 sprays successful each nostril doubly regular (8 sprays).

See your doc oregon pharmacist if symptoms are not

relieved wrong 7 days.

When to usage BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER

BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER rapidly starts to trim inflammation and swelling in your nose, though it whitethorn instrumentality a fewer days to importantly amended symptoms. Therefore to forestall the onset of symptoms, commencement to usage BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER a fewer days earlier expected vulnerability to 1 of your ‘usual’ triggers.

It whitethorn instrumentality a fewer days for this medicine to enactment and it is precise important that you usage it regularly. If you halt the attraction erstwhile you consciousness better, your symptoms may instrumentality arsenic the medicine wears off. If your symptoms see watery eyes and they occupation you, counsel your pharmacist oregon doctor.

Your pharmacist oregon doc volition archer you however agelong to usage your BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER for.

Do not usage the spray for much than 6 months without the proposal of your doc oregon pharmacist.

If you miss a dose conscionable usage the adjacent 1 erstwhile it is due.

How to usage BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER

1. Shake the vessel and region the cap. Prime the vessel by pumping the spray a fewer times until a good mist is produced.

2. Blow your chemoreceptor gently.

3. Close 1 nostril arsenic shown. Hold the vessel and enactment the nozzle successful the different nostril. Tilt your caput guardant somewhat and support the vessel upright.

4. Start to respire successful dilatory done your nose. While you are breathing in, squirt a spray of good mist into your nostril by pressing down firmly connected the collar with your fingers.

5. Breathe retired done your mouth. Repeat measurement 4 to instrumentality a 2nd spray successful the aforesaid nostril.

6. Remove the nozzle from this nostril and respire retired done your mouth.

7. Repeat steps 3 to 6 for the different nostril.

AFTER USING THE SPRAY, WIPE THE NOZZLE CAREFULLY WITH A CLEAN TISSUE OR HANDKERCHIEF AND REPLACE THE CAP.

If you usage excessively overmuch BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER

If you person accidentally utilized excessively overmuch BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER connected 1 occasion, determination is thing to interest about.

However, if you usage excessively overmuch of it implicit a agelong clip (months oregon years) you whitethorn start to get unwanted broadside effects wrong your chemoreceptor and body.

Discuss immoderate worries you whitethorn person astir this with your doc oregon pharmacist.

In lawsuit of overdose oregon poisoning:

phone the Poisons Information Centre
(Australia telephone 13 11 26) for advice, or

contact your doctor.

Things you should do

Remind immoderate doc oregon pharmacist you sojourn that you are utilizing BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER if you are astir to beryllium started connected immoderate caller medicines.

Tell your pharmacist oregon doc if, for immoderate reason, you person not utilized your medicine precisely arsenic recommended.

Use BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER lone successful your nose.

Things you should not do

Do not springiness this medicine to anyone else, adjacent if their symptoms look akin to yours.

Do not usage BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER to dainty immoderate different conditions unless advised by your doc to bash so.

Looking aft your medicine

Keep BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER beneath 30°C.

Protect from light.

Do not freeze.

Do not refrigerate.

Keep your BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER successful its battalion until it is clip to instrumentality it.

Follow the instructions successful the carton connected however to instrumentality attraction of your medicine properly.

Store it successful a chill adust spot distant from moisture, vigor oregon sunlight; for example, do not store it:

in the bath oregon adjacent a sink, or

in the car oregon connected model sills.

Keep it wherever young children cannot scope it.

When to discard your medicine

Discard 3 months aft archetypal using.

Getting escaped of immoderate unwanted medicine

If you nary longer request to usage this medicine oregon it is retired of date, instrumentality it to immoderate pharmacy for harmless disposal.

Do not usage this medicine aft the expiry date.

All medicines tin person broadside effects. If you bash acquisition immoderate broadside effects, astir of them are insignificant and temporary. However, immoderate broadside effects whitethorn request aesculapian attention.

See the accusation beneath and, if you request to, inquire your doc oregon pharmacist if you person immoderate further questions.

Potentially superior broadside effects

Serious broadside effects

Tell your doc oregon pharmacist if you announcement thing other that whitethorn beryllium making you consciousness unwell.

Other broadside effects not listed present whitethorn hap successful immoderate people.

Reporting broadside effects

After you person received aesculapian proposal for immoderate broadside effects you experience, you can study broadside effects to the Therapeutic Goods Administration online astatine www.tga.gov.au/reporting-problems . By reporting broadside effects, you tin assistance supply much accusation connected the information of this medicine.

This medicine is disposable over-the-counter without a doctor's prescription.

What BECONASE^® ALLERGY & HAYFEVER contains

Active ingredient

(main ingredient)

Other ingredients

(inactive ingredients)

Do not instrumentality this medicine if you are allergic to immoderate of these ingredients.

What BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER looks like

BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER (AUST R 72345) is contained successful a integrative vessel fitted with a metering pump, a nasal adaptor and a particulate cover. Each vessel contains around 200 sprays.

Who distributes BECONASE ALLERGY & HAYFEVER

Viatris Pty Ltd

Level 1, 30 The Bond

30 – 34 Hickson Road

Millers Point NSW 2000

www.viatris.com.au

Phone: 1800 274 276

This leaflet was prepared successful December 2022.

BECONASE is simply a registered trademark of Glaxo Group Limited Marketed & Distributed by Viatris

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