Hey all, welcome back to the Real Life Pharmacology podcast. I'm your host pharmacist, Eric

Christensen. Thank you so much for listening today. As always, you can track me down on LinkedIn,

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real life pharmacology.com. The drug of the day today is fluticazone. And specifically I'm going to

hone in on the nasal spray. There's a couple of brand names specifically I'm going to hone in on the nasal spray.

There's a couple of brand names and different formulations.

Verimist is one that's Fluticazone furuate, and Flonase is the one I'm going to lean on mostly

here.

That's Fluticazone propionate.

Flonase is in practice, the one that I've seen much more common than other formulations, generally inexpensive. It's now available over

the counter as of a few years ago. So you're going to see patients using this medication for sure. Now what are they going to be

using it for? Primarily, you're going to see this med used for allergic rhinitis. So that's an important

thing to monitor, an important thing to follow. And how this medication works, as you could maybe

deduct from the name, Fluticazone, it is a corticosteroid.

So it's going to primarily reduce inflammation and also potentially give you some vasoconstriction locally in the nose as well,

which can help alleviate those symptoms of runny nose and irritation and sneezing, of course.

I do want to take the time to go through administration of nasal medications,

and specifically here, obviously, Flonase.

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