Intranasal steroids are used when:
1. low-grade infection is present and has not responded to the use of antibiotics.
2. conventional methods of reducing inflammation have been tried and found to be ineffective.
3. the patient is pregnant.
4. the patient is immunocompromised.
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Topical intranasal steroids are used to treat allergic, mechanical, or chemically induced local nasal inflammation when more usual treatment has been tried without success.
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