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Mometasone is used to treat the itching, swollen and irritated skin you may get if you have eczema (different types, including atopic dermatitis and seborrheic dermatitis) or psoriasis.
Mometasone skin treatments are a type of medicine known as a steroid (or corticosteroid). They're not the same as anabolic steroids.
Mometasone for skin does not cure conditions like eczema but it reduces the swelling (inflammation) in your skin to help manage your symptoms.
Mometasone skin treatments come as a cream, ointment or scalp lotion.
It's stronger than some other treatments and is usually prescribed when milder steroids, like hydrocortisone, have not worked.
Mometasone skin treatments are available on prescription only.
Mometasone also comes as an inhaler to treat asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and a nasal spray for allergic rhinitis, hay fever and nasal polyps.
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