Anybody started to suffer yet as I have been today big time :(

Lucy
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I had to take Piriton to my nearly 10 year old at school on Thursday - this is very early for him, as he doesn't normally start until the end of May! :(

Yep started earlier this week, mine is generally caused by trees.  A couple of the kids in my class had watery and itchy eyes after lunch on Thurs and Fri.

Yep - although not too bad yet. We have a lot of rape in the fields behind us

Daisy

All year round! :-(

I am allergic to everything from cats, horses and other peoples dogs, to trees, grass, dust, pollen, I could go on forever. The latest allergic reaction I have had is to honey! :rolleyes: I take loretodine(sp?) which is basically Claratin but is Tescos, Sainsburys or Asdas own make and a lot cheaper, (99p for 7) especially as I have to take 2/3 times the recommended dose. I have used most of them and I find this the most effective. I have been on them since the age of 7 (so 23yrs) so have built up quite a resistance to them, hence the dose.

Me too with loads of different ones, ive had mine for 42 years, last few years ive been on zirtek and sudofed,beconase nasal spray,eye drops, seems to work when you take them all at once,lol

Eugh! I've got one of those nasal thingys too. Don't they taste horrible when they start to trickle down the back of your throat?! I try to take mine just before my morning cup of tea, then it's not so bad.

Yes a bit bitter yuk.I misunderstood the doctor and when it was bad a couple years ago, i was taking upto 5 zirtek a day, worked great, then found out it was sudofed i could take upto this amount not zirtek,which should have only been 1 a day took me a while to get 'back to normal' now take 1/2 in morning with sudofed and 1/2 in evening the same,just up it a bit when really bad and other bits inbetween,lol

About 10 years ago, my Father was in his 70's and had suffered with hayfever for as long as he could remember.  Itchy eyes, watery nose etc.  He was going to the Doctor for his annual spray/tablets when someone suggested that he might try a teaspoonful of local honey each day.  Apparently local, as in made within 7 miles of where he lived, was important!
I sourced this for him and explained that often natural things take a long time to take effect and that it maybe a good idea if he was to stock up with his normal medication for this year.
After 3 weeks he found that he didn't need the Doctor's medication and has not taken any for the past 10 years, but taken a teaspoonful of local honey each morning!!
Just an idea???!!

Never thought of that.. worth trying Val.. I am a whezzing old woman when it is bad.. :-)

I had a little sense of it todau Lucy :-)) I was just thinking need to get my hayfever stuff and start taking it..  I have tried everything and last year was the first time I felt I was getting somewhere.. Nasel spray Beconase ( spelling) ??

My hubby found local honey good too! We had it recommended to us whilst holidaying in Norfolk last year. It needs to be local because the bees then use the honey from plants and flowers that cause hayfever within that area apparently. It seems to work for him at least and he has suffered from hayfever for most of his life up to now. We get ours from the W.I. markets in the villages.
Jacqueline :)

Yesterday I just couldn't stop sneezing. I didn't feel as if I was getting a cold so assumed it was a reaction to some kind of pollen.
The last time I had a similar 'attack' was for a couple of days in June 1989 ! So I haven't done bad I suppose :)

You know it is a very simple idea. Clever person who thought about it first though..

Bet whoever it was sitting bored one day and it popped into his head :-)

Need to see if I can get it local.  :-)

When I saw this theread I thought it was Hayfever in the dogs that was the topic :D

I was interested as one of mine does the backward sneezing/hyperventilating when the grass and other plants are flowering. 

She is a very sniffy dog even for an Elkhound always got her nose a twitching.  An exciting smell in the spring eqarly summer often gets her going (I hold my hand over her nose for a few seconds which stops it).  I had always wondered if the pollen in the air made this overexcited scenting worse???

Brainless get the Honey out :-))

Local honey Brainless! ;)

LOL Val.. of course..:-)

Yep i started about a week ago, although I am trying homeopathic remady this year and it appears to work at least as well as antihistimines.

Dont you just LOVE those fields of oil seed rape :(

I never used to get hayfever but the last few years have had it and it gets worse every year - I'm sure it's connected with all the stuff they spray on the orchards round us :(

AAAchooo !

Yvonne

I heard an interesting thing on the television recently. A lot of people are going abroad (not previously allergic) and becoming allergic to the Olive tree. Then, when they go home, they become sensitive to other things causing the onset of hay fever in later life.

Daisy

Yep I started with hayfever just over a week ago, one of the doctors at work a couple of weeks ago was really suffering!

I have certainly found that household chemicals have an effect on me. Ive been much better since I stopped using most of them.

Thanks to this thread I bought some local honey today.
I don't suffer terribly with hayfever but I do sneeze an awful lot at this time of the year so I'm going to give it a bash!