How to Taper Off Nasacort

Nasacort -- triamcinolone -- relieves allergy symptoms. Nasacort is prescribed by a physician and taken one to four times a day. Patients may experience headaches, sore throat or nasal dryness when taking Nasacort. Contact your doctor before stopping this medication.

Instructions

• 1

  Contact your physician. Side effects may occur while tapering off Nasacort. These include swelling of nasal passages, headaches and anxiety.

• 2

  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.

• 3

  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.

• 4

  Use nasal opening strips if nostrils swell. Nasacort opens nasal passages. When Nasacort is not present, swelling may occur.