What Is Fluticasone Furoate?
Fluticasone furoate (
Veramyst™) is a prescription medication approved to treat sneezing, runny or stuffy nose, and nasal itching due to
allergies (known medically as allergic rhinitis) in adults and children as young as two years old. Fluticasone furoate can be used to treat both seasonal allergies and allergies that occur all year long (known as perennial allergies).
Who Makes Fluticasone Furoate?
Fluticasone furoate is made by GlaxoSmithKline.
How Does Fluticasone Furoate Work?
Allergies occur when the body's immune system reacts to a normally harmless substance -- one that does not bother most people. These immune system reactions are known as inflammation, and they involve several different types of cells and several different chemicals in the body.
Fluticasone furoate is a corticosteroid, or simply "steroid" for short. Steroids can have many different effects in the body, including anti-inflammatory effects. Steroids decrease inflammation by limiting the body's ability to produce an immune system reaction. They can be very effective for treating conditions such as allergies. However, long-term use of steroids can cause bothersome and sometimes serious side effects, and this limits the usefulness of many steroids. Because fluticasone furoate is a nasal spray, its effects are generally limited to the nose. This helps prevent many of the long-term side effects of steroids.