Dymista nasal spray

[Jac902]

Hi I use dymista twice a day one spray into each nostril morning and night. Is this the recommended dosage as I can’t remember if the ent specialist I seen told me to take 2 sprays morning and night into both nostril so 8 sprays in total(both nostrils)

[elanaoali]

The dosage would be on the prescription and the packaging and bottle. I used this and do one spray in each nostril I don't know what the top dosage is. I recommend you ask your ENT doctor.

[JUNO70]

Yep I've been using dymista one spray each nostril twice a day for years

[ahfat41 in reply to JUNO70]

Are you using it for allergies? Is it safe to use long term. I have been using it for nearly a year twice a day. I also take fexofernadine.

[ahfat41]

I use mine one spray twice a day. What has it been prescribed for?

[Jac902 in reply to ahfat41]

Allergic rhitins

[Jac902]

Allergic rhitinis

[ahfat41]

I would query it as most of us take one spray in each nostril twice a day.

[Jac902]

Does it help as I find my nose is so blocked it drips down as can’t get to where it needs to be to work

[peege in reply to Jac902]

Have you tried pointing the nozzle towards ears so it's aimed at nasal passages rather than straight up?

Oh and putting the head back so ypthe medication can trickle where it's needed

[Dree_pt]

I use it 1 puff in each nostrils. If I’m with my allergic rhinitis very bad I need in the morning and in the night. If not just one in with nostrils at night. But I use 15 days and stop 15 days. Otherwise my nose starts to bleed.

[Emaych61 in reply to Dree_pt]

I get nose bleeds from using it as well, but with me it usually starts after just a few days of use (three or four). This seems to be fairly typical for me with nasal sprays in general, not just Dymista. I now use it on an as and when needed basis only, but that has been approved by my respiratory consultant.

[Dree_pt in reply to Emaych61]

I’m off Dymista because of that: my nose was bleeding too much. I’m using another thing that my allergyc doctor recommended it that is not corticoids but helps with my allergic rhinitis. It is called Fenolip. I don’t know if it had in UK, I’m in Portugal but helps a lot…and it can be used 4 times a day…I just need 2 times and I feel fine. I’ll check on Internet if there is in UK too and I’ll tell you

[Dree_pt in reply to Emaych61]

The component is sodium cromoglycate

[Emaych61 in reply to Dree_pt]

Dymista contains an antihistamine and fluticasone propionate, which is a steroid. Sodium cromoglycate is something else.

Or are you saying that Fenolip contains Sodium cromoglycate?

I have been on a non steroid based nasal spray before now - Rinatec, which had the component Ipratropium Bromide. But that too caused nosebleeds after two or three days of use and was not as good as a steroid nasal spray at dealing with the rhinitis.

I have been on sodium cromoglycate in the (distant) past but for asthma. When I was at last diagnosed with asthma aged 8 in the 1960s my first inhaler was a combination of sodium cromoglycate and isoprenline. It was used both as a preventer and as a reliever and, in my experience, as a reliever of asthma, it worked faster than ventolin. My understanding is that was almost certainly due to the isoprenaline. The medication, known as IntalCo is no longer available (the use of isoprenaline for treating asthma was, I believe, halted in the late 1980s early 1990s) though I think inhalers just containing the sodium cromoglycate may still exist. For me, and almost certainly a lot of other asthma sufferers, IntalCo was a life changer. The only problem with it was a side effect I got (but I’ve yet to find someone else who got it) of a splitting headache if I used it relieve an attack. My understanding is that was also down to the isoprenaline.

[Dree_pt in reply to Emaych61]

It’s a nasal spray and for me helps a lot on my allergic rhinitis…I have asthma too and use Spiriva in the morning and Relvar in the night.

[Dree_pt in reply to Emaych61]

20mg/ml

[Bevvy]

Why don’t you discuss dose with your chemist? They are the absolute experts on medications. Especially dose and intra contradictions.

[persil]

Best ask your pharmacist they will be able to help.