Budesonide
What are the aims of this patient information leaflet?
This leaflet has been written to help you understand more about your contact allergy. It tells you what a contact allergy is, what causes this allergy and what you can do about it.
What is contact allergy?
Dermatitis, also known as eczema, describes a type of inflammation of the skin. Contact dermatitis or contact eczema is a term used when this inflammation is caused by direct or indirect skin contact with something in your environment. Allergic contact dermatitis occurs when your immune system causes allergy to a very specific chemical or substance that has been in contact with the skin.
What causes your specific allergy?
Your patch tests indicate that you have a contact allergy to budesonide.
What is budesonide?
Budesonide is a steroid. It is no longer available as a cream in the UK.
What are some products that contain budesonide?
- Asthma inhalers, eg Pulmicort and Symbicort
- Nasal sprays, eg Budesonide nasal spray and Rhinocort aqua
- Steroid tablets, eg Budenofalk and Enterocort.
Remember, always check the label, these lists can never be complete and ingredients change.
How can I manage my allergy?
This means that you should avoid putting products containing budesonide onto your skin in the future.
A reaction to budesonide, means that you may have an allergy to another steroid used to treat your skin. The steroids you are most likely to react to are triamcinolone (Aureocort, Nasocort, some steroid injections including Kenalog) and hydrocortisone butyrate (Locoid and Locoid Crelo), so these should be avoided. Your doctor may need to do some further tests to work out whether you have an allergy to other steroids.
Self-care (what can I do?)
Always check the ingredient listing on the product, package or package insert as these lists can never be complete and ingredients change. This is particularly important for any products purchased outside the EU where some allergens may not be banned.
Created: 2015