I wonder what your allergy is? Mine is starting to calm down after these last two months!

My mum doesn't have hay fever but she has severe lung/breathing issues. The last couple of days she's been struggling - it's nearly always linked to air pollutants of some kind. I checked out the pollen count yesterday and it was moderate - today however it's forecast to be high - I haven't checked in with her yet!

I'm off out on m'bike shortly. I will report back.

It's tree pollen that does it for me.

Mine has been worse this year for some reason, just been to the shops and my eyes are red already

i sympathise, i suffer too   

I'm quite lucky...   whatever it is that sets mine off is only around for a couple of weeks at the very beginning of summer (possibly tree pollen apparently)...  

 

MrDitty gets it bad though... all through the summer (so, probably grass pollen)...     He manages it really well now though, with the nasal spray - Rhinolast (although he gets the generic Tesco one, cos the branded one is £15!)... 

 

for him its been the best antihistamine, pretty much sorting it out completely ...  so long as he remembers to use it morning & night

RUSHES IN . . .

 

So this rhinolast - is it taken with a tablet anti-histerdoo-daah or instead of one??

 

Sneezes back out again . . .

I've just totally jinxed MrD...    he's just come home for lunch cos, despite taking his rhinolast last night & this morning...   he is still feeling the symptoms.

 

it must be a baaad pollen count day Renton.

 

And to answer your question..    he is taking an oral non drowsy piriton tablet now...  so yes, you can take it with the tablets when its really bad (though he says normally the Rhinolast sorts it out completely)

It's rape seed at the moment, cripples me every year, I actually feel short of breath today , it's so bad, never had that before, my poor son had bags of jelly hanging out of his eyes yesterday, bloody miserable it is

I think it's rapeseed that really messes with my mum ........we have acres and acres of the stuff round here.

Check out you pound shop I got my son pollen mesh for his windows form ours.. its easy to fit, I got him his for his fear of wasps, he stood in a wasp nest when he was little now has a terrible phobia of them....

Oooooooooh poor boy - my grandson disturbed a was nest last year and was stung several times - not nice at all.

 

I'll look out for the pollen mesh - cheers  

Hey sooz, sorry your mums feeling rough, I don't have any asthma or lung probs and I'm really feeling it today hope she's ok x Stonks thanks for the tip I am going to try and find one of those nets, problem is with my son is he plays about 4 cricket matches a week at mo, so no way around it, he seems to become immune to more and more tablets every year poor thing

My sister started with hay fever when she was fourteen - it went (more or less completely) when she was twenty one. There is a seven year cycle theory - can't claim it's right but it was in her case. Take heart from that 

My hayfever, eczema and asthma are all bad atm    *strolls off feeling very sorry for herself* 

* cuddles pengy and exchanges snot * all I can do at mo is stick wet tissue on eyes, so bad today feel actually Ill with it

   I've sneezed so much I've pulled a muscle 

Oddly enough, I haven't had it this year at all............. 

I've done that before now .............very painful.

Yes, I suffer too. I've got to get tablets from the doc but when I was younger I had to have injections every week for six weeks  

Also I find I get a bit of relief after I've been out if I rinse the pollen off my face. It might help for some of you 

A spoonful a day of LOCAL honey really helps defeat hayfever

The only place I can buy local honey (that I know of) is in Mecklenburg/vorpommen. I won't be there till late July.

i DID KNOW THAT BUT i FORGOT ALL ABOUT IT ....................I'll get my mum some local honey soon .......apparently someone around here does do rapeseed honey!

You do grow out of it as you get older.

I didn't start getting it this bad until I was 50!

I've never suffered from it..touch wood.My late brother suffered from it and it didn't start with him until he was in his 40's.His was grass pollen affected.

Maybe 49? Look at my post ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ re seven year cycles...... are you 56 yet?

I was 39 when I first suffered from allergic rhinitis and I'm *cough* a few years older now. I suffer all year round. I've had tests, and they cannot pin point what it is Well I can. Traditional hay fever stuff sets me off big time in the summer, and air conditioning affects me all year round.

 

Over the counter hay fever tablets work for me though - I take one every two or three days and I am ok (ish)

 

42? ................ You're still a growing girl - seriously I do know a few people who've 'grown out of it' don't give up hope!

I've grown a few more years than that sooz ... but I haven't given up hope