Here comes the Hayfever
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I get hayfever quite badly, this year i have bought an "allergy reliever" from lloyds chemist, it is a contraption that you put up you nose and it emits a red light which is said to stop the release of histamine. It was only £15 on special offer at the moment.
No word of a lie this thing has stopped my hayfever, after 1 day of using it my hayfever seems to be gone!
No more tablets for me, if you need to read more do a search for medinose as these are exactly the same but cost £50.
No word of a lie this thing has stopped my hayfever, after 1 day of using it my hayfever seems to be gone!
No more tablets for me, if you need to read more do a search for medinose as these are exactly the same but cost £50.
ive never seemed to suffer from hayfever but always wake up with a stuffy nose, itchy at the bottom of it, and mucus running down my throat :\ usually stuffy as hell inside then runs like crazy outside 
....dont know if its hayfever tho or what as it sometimes bothers me when it isnt hayfever season......whatever it is, it makes me feel lazy too and sometimes headache 
....dont know if its hayfever tho or what as it sometimes bothers me when it isnt hayfever season......whatever it is, it makes me feel lazy too and sometimes headache
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Am I the only person who doesn't get hayfever?
Nope fine here to
Very glad i don't get it, sounds nasty!Am I the only person who doesn't get hayfever?
glad to say that I don't have hayfever either
i've had this, it's really annoying me
i went to my doctors, he was away so there was a temp doctor in
i said "i've had a runny nose for over a year", he said "you're just recovering from a cold"
:?
I've had a few sneezes, but I mowed the lawns last week and had no problems. Last summer I stocked up on local honey, which I had in my red bush tea or on toast. Didn't get one hint of hayfever. No need for tablets.
The hayfever isn't ever that bad for me, fortunately, but it can set off my asthma (which I never suffer with at the gym etc) and I can really struggle to breathe.
The hayfever isn't ever that bad for me, fortunately, but it can set off my asthma (which I never suffer with at the gym etc) and I can really struggle to breathe.
I was cured of hayfever about 4 years ago.
I used to hibernate over the summer, bleeding nose from blowing it so much, itchy eyes, wheezy chest, the works. I used to be so bad that they prevented me from taking my A Levels first time round.
No drugs involved, no surgery, just a [pretty drastic] change in diet for a few months, and then watching what I eat in general from there on in.
If anyone's interested I'll explain more.
I used to hibernate over the summer, bleeding nose from blowing it so much, itchy eyes, wheezy chest, the works. I used to be so bad that they prevented me from taking my A Levels first time round.
No drugs involved, no surgery, just a [pretty drastic] change in diet for a few months, and then watching what I eat in general from there on in.
If anyone's interested I'll explain more.
I was cured of hayfever about 4 years ago.
I used to hibernate over the summer, bleeding nose from blowing it so much, itchy eyes, wheezy chest, the works. I used to be so bad that they prevented me from taking my A Levels first time round.
No drugs involved, no surgery, just a [pretty drastic] change in diet for a few months, and then watching what I eat in general from there on in.
If anyone's interested I'll explain more.
Yes please mate
I'd love to know the steps you took. I'd do anything if it meant a remote chance of being hayfever free
I went to see an allergy specialist, who worked out exactly what I was allergic to.
Obviously grass and pollen were high, but there were also a number of other "lower level" allergies that I had, but was unaware of (and that most other people probably have too).
Yeast
Wheat
Sugar
House dust
Fungus spores
...
The list was pretty mad, none of which registered less than 80 on the scale (0 to 100, 0 being completely, probably fatally, allergic to something), pollen scored a pretty abysmal 20, as did fungus spores, etc.
The idea behind the treatment is to cut out all the foods/whatever causing the lower level allergic reactions, which leaves your immune system better equipped to deal with the higher level ones that you CANNOT avoid.
I was off sugar (including all fruit, etc), yeast, wheat, dairy and just about everything else for 3 months. All I could drink was water. I could eat meat and veg and rice and that was about it.
After 3 months more tests were done, and pollen/grass had shot up to 75-80, and everything else had been cleared up. These low-level allergies, especially to yeast, build up over a long period of time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_albicans) which affect mainly the immune system.
Since then I've watched what I eat, so moderate intake of sugar, yeast, alcohol, etc. and have been hayfever free ever since.
A small price to pay I feel, and I'm sure any other sufferers would probably agree.
No need for drugs which merely mask the symptoms and don't treat the causes, and after a while the body builds up a resistance to these drugs anyway and you need to buy more and more or go and get something daft done like a steroid jab.
If anyone wants details, feel free to PM me and I'll see if there's a practitioner near you who you can contact.
Obviously grass and pollen were high, but there were also a number of other "lower level" allergies that I had, but was unaware of (and that most other people probably have too).
Yeast
Wheat
Sugar
House dust
Fungus spores
...
The list was pretty mad, none of which registered less than 80 on the scale (0 to 100, 0 being completely, probably fatally, allergic to something), pollen scored a pretty abysmal 20, as did fungus spores, etc.
The idea behind the treatment is to cut out all the foods/whatever causing the lower level allergic reactions, which leaves your immune system better equipped to deal with the higher level ones that you CANNOT avoid.
I was off sugar (including all fruit, etc), yeast, wheat, dairy and just about everything else for 3 months. All I could drink was water. I could eat meat and veg and rice and that was about it.
After 3 months more tests were done, and pollen/grass had shot up to 75-80, and everything else had been cleared up. These low-level allergies, especially to yeast, build up over a long period of time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_albicans) which affect mainly the immune system.
Since then I've watched what I eat, so moderate intake of sugar, yeast, alcohol, etc. and have been hayfever free ever since.
A small price to pay I feel, and I'm sure any other sufferers would probably agree.
No need for drugs which merely mask the symptoms and don't treat the causes, and after a while the body builds up a resistance to these drugs anyway and you need to buy more and more or go and get something daft done like a steroid jab.
If anyone wants details, feel free to PM me and I'll see if there's a practitioner near you who you can contact.
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