Corticosteroids are powerful substances, and have lots of potential adverse effects - and long-term usage can wreak havoc. The physiological side-effects of corticosteroid withdrawal can be quite awful. They are amazing, necessary, drugs for society. But, when something as safe and effective as pseudoephedrine can do the trick (it really is quite safe, and even has less potential interactions with things than plenty of OTC drugs do), there is literally no reason for anything else.
When I get a cold, (pseudo)ephedrine is the only medication that actually really helps. I don't need it often, I just try to remember to buy some once in a blue moon when I'm already at the pharmacy so that when I need some, it will be there. But for people with allergies or those who get sick a lot, the current process is yet another completely pointless annoyance.
Corticosteroid nasal spray does not have the same effects as when it is administered in other ways and is safe even for long-time use as three different doctors in my country told me.
I just spent dug in to this and, wow, I was wrong!
Most all the negatives that occur with parenteral and oral routes appear to be absent in the intranasal form. And there is quite a lot of research to back that up.
Thank you for correcting me. And likely sending me down another rabbit hole.
When I get a cold, (pseudo)ephedrine is the only medication that actually really helps. I don't need it often, I just try to remember to buy some once in a blue moon when I'm already at the pharmacy so that when I need some, it will be there. But for people with allergies or those who get sick a lot, the current process is yet another completely pointless annoyance.