Hayfever - Thread

Conscript said:
I also have Fexofenadine, a stock from last year. It's definitely better than over the counter stuff, but I'm still feeling the affects. The pollen must have been trained by Chuck Norris this year :/



As above - honey from local bees contains pollen, it's meant to be a form of immunotherapy; keep ingesting the honey and you build up an immunity to pollen of local trees and plants. Scientific testing doesn't really show that it works, but I've heard people swear by it. Mind you, at £5.60 for a jar of honey from a local supplier, it might be an expensive theory to test (even if it does taste nice).
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Does honey contain any grass pollen, which is what most people suffer from?
 
I was suffering really badly yesterday, then put some salt water nasal spray in before bed last night and today I'm fine. Got some backup tablets in the bag just in case things get ugly later today.
 
Well, I think i might have the hay fever. Last few days, maybe a lot longer if I think about it, i've started the day with a bout of sneezes, and an itch in my ear.. the sort you can only get to by pretending to get flem up :D Sound like the hay fever?

Gonna go lloyds in a min to get some tablets.. what do I need folk?

Gracias
 
cmsbfent said:
Well, I think i might have the hay fever. Last few days, maybe a lot longer if I think about it, i've started the day with a bout of sneezes, and an itch in my ear.. the sort you can only get to by pretending to get flem up :D Sound like the hay fever?

Gonna go lloyds in a min to get some tablets.. what do I need folk?

Gracias
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For a basic allergy tablet, I'd go for the cheapest containing Loratadine you can find (generally all Loratadine tablets are the same - its patent has expired so you can get white-label / own-brand versions).
 
"Specialist" on the news yesterday.

Take Tablets from the end of March/mid May, every day. Do not skip at all.
When/if it starts get home and have a shower, do NOT take your clothes to your room as if they have pollen on you are putting it where you sleep.
If it is really bad obviously go to your GP
 
xdcx said:
Theory behind local honey being that local bee's are gathering pollen from the very flowers and tree's in your area that are producing the pollen you are allergic too. So if their honey contains these specific known allergic types of pollen then it might help you form an immunity through introducing small amounts of that pollen by eating the honey.

So that's the theory, but I don't think it works. I have local honey from a bee keeper who stays one street over. Whilst it is utterly amazing and the best honey I have ever tasted in my life, it's doing naff all for my hayfever.... She said I need to take it all year consistently and if it works I should have built an immunity by next hayfever season..... But then, I bet she just wants me to buy a jar of her honey every 2 weeks, eh? :rolleyes:

At this point in time I am willing to do ANYTHING to get rid of hayfever.
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Apparently it can take 2 years to work. My dad is in his 3rd year of taking a spoonful a day.....no hayfever this year...at all.
 
Interesting theories.

It's certainly worth playing around with some of the ideas since it's not that expensive.

Worst year for me since the summer of 2002 when I initially got hayfever.
 
I suffer allergies all year round, kept at bay by chlorphenamine and nasonex but ooft, this year hay fever has hit me hard! I ran out of prescription stuff this morning and due to a busy schedule, havent had time to get to the doctors - they stupidly wont let me repeat this stuff despite ordering it every month! Went to Asda and the allergy shelf was empty :(

All I have is sudafed and piriteze! Piriteze is hellishly bad, doesn't do anything for me! I've taken 3 over the course of the day and its not helped! Sudafed just clears my nose - as its designed to do.

Any other off the shelf brands people can recommend incase this kind of thing happens again? When I put an order in at the docs, I usually cant pick up my prescription until the next day which is a nightmare with work.
 
Man up.

It's a result of us being too sensitive to the world around us - and is becoming more and more common due to our bodies becoming less able to deal with normal everyday

Get yourself infected with Hookworm (the intestinal parasite that 700+ million around the world have - and live with) - The benefits seem to outway the symptoms. It virtually stops the effects of Hayfever as well as most other allergies.

Try it anyway ;)
 
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Sin_Chase Same worst year for me as far as i remember.

Saturday i had that dodgy feeling after running but o well.

Sunday moprning i went to JapFest in Donington... BAD MOVE VERY ****ING BAD MOVE.

I came back around 15 grabed some medicine.

Basically last 3 days look like this:#
Wake up 39-40c fever
Drink hot cold relief thing. Smoke some weed to knock myself out and sleep.
When i am awake i cant focus my brain does not operate at all.
Cold sweet mixed with heatwaves.


Its first time in sunday that i got on to my pc at all...

WORST **** EVER
 
take bendryl and pironase nasal spary and eye drops first thing every morning.

not a problem yet and i suffer badly.

the key is you need to take them regularly to build up resistance....
 
I am so tired atm that i would sniff line of washing powder if it would help.... Not to mention each day off work costs me 40f from my overtime money :/

ps. This is ******** anyway. I run and work out every day. Take loads of vitamins and healthy diet. You just cant get away from Hay Fever FFS
 
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