Hay Fever

[Huzzah]

Boy has it kicked in this year! Usually I get a couple of sniffles, a quick squirt of Pirinase sorts it.

Not this year, totally poleaxed. Living in the Midlands surrounded by grass and haymaking doesn't help.

What do you do? (apart from a pleasing supermarket trip)

[Lotobear]

I've been suffering today, almost like a really bad hangover - sore eyes, tired, fuzzy head and difficulty concentrating. It really is a miserable bloody condition.

[Sheets Tabuer]

I go on to one of those online pharmacies and get a prescription for 180mg of Fexofenadine and don't suffer at all.

Normal hayfever tablets don't touch the sides but these bad boys stop all my symptoms completely.

[lancslad58]

A few snorts of this helps me. Stérimar Hayfever & Allergy Relief

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/st%C3%...

"100 percent Natural Sea water based nasal spray, rich in marine minerals renowned for their therapeutic properties, and enriched with copper salt, is dispersed in very fine droplets through a unique nozzle"

[rossub]

Cetirizine tablet + Beclomethazone Spray, 365 days a year.

Only ineffective for a short period in July at peak grass season.

[Inbox]

Yup, not much fun at the moment.

In a bizarre twist, getting my asthma sent out of control a few back got my meds jacked up and now instead of being a snotty mess with sore eyes, etc that was breathing fine my asthma symptoms are vastly improved but everything else is buggered.

[90CHPAXL]

Something in the air this year! (don't say its pollen...)

I never usually suffer more than the odd squint of an eye when I'm near an abundance of nature, yet this year I'm sneezing like mad and I feel excessively fatigued. The missus is the same.

Good to know it's not just me getting weaker as I get older

lancslad58 said:

...

"100 percent Natural Sea water based nasal spray, rich in marine minerals renowned for their therapeutic properties, and enriched with copper salt, is dispersed in very fine droplets through a unique nozzle"

"Unique Nozzle", May have to start using that ...

[Huzzah]

90CHPAXL said:

Something in the air this year! (don't say its pollen...)

I never usually suffer more than the odd squint of an eye when I'm near an abundance of nature, yet this year I'm sneezing like mad and I feel excessively fatigued. The missus is the same.

Good to know it's not just me getting weaker as I get older

lancslad58 said:

...

"100 percent Natural Sea water based nasal spray, rich in marine minerals renowned for their therapeutic properties, and enriched with copper salt, is dispersed in very fine droplets through a unique nozzle"

"Unique Nozzle", May have to start using that ...

Active ingredient 'The north sea'

Sounds like it can't fail. This time next yr Rodders.

[lancslad58]

Huzzah said:

90CHPAXL said:

Something in the air this year! (don't say its pollen...)

I never usually suffer more than the odd squint of an eye when I'm near an abundance of nature, yet this year I'm sneezing like mad and I feel excessively fatigued. The missus is the same.

Good to know it's not just me getting weaker as I get older

lancslad58 said:

...

"100 percent Natural Sea water based nasal spray, rich in marine minerals renowned for their therapeutic properties, and enriched with copper salt, is dispersed in very fine droplets through a unique nozzle"

"Unique Nozzle", May have to start using that ...

Active ingredient 'The north sea'

Sounds like it can't fail. This time next yr Rodders.

Aren't you the funny one.

Well that's your loss if you're not willing to explore salt water sprays.

Perhaps you could try taking you pills and shoving them up your arse

Edited by lancslad58 on Tuesday 1st July 22:07

[cerberaperv]

Up to 2yrs ago, I was having to take the Kenilog injection. I’d be suffering from asthma brought on by hayfever. I’d have to have an inhaler several times a day. I never needed an inhaler the rest of the year. Some days, I was unable to see or drive properly as my hayfever was that bad. Some days I was on 4-5 daily tablets, Rhinolast, local honey etc, nothing would work.
I then read online, as you do in desperation to try anything to give you just one day of relief, that if you boil water, allowing it to cool, then put it in one of those water drinking bottles with the mouth piece on. Shove it up your nose and flush out your sinuses.
I do it religiously morning and night in hayfever season, if i take the dogs a walk in the field, or if i get an itch, I’ll do it in the day too. I can honestly say it has got ridden of 90% + of my hayfever. Then most I ever take now is a Tesco daily, when the pollen count is reallly high.
Don’t doubt it, just give it a go. You get used to it in no time.

[90CHPAXL]

lancslad58 said:

Huzzah said:

90CHPAXL said:

Something in the air this year! (don't say its pollen...)

I never usually suffer more than the odd squint of an eye when I'm near an abundance of nature, yet this year I'm sneezing like mad and I feel excessively fatigued. The missus is the same.

Good to know it's not just me getting weaker as I get older

lancslad58 said:

...

"100 percent Natural Sea water based nasal spray, rich in marine minerals renowned for their therapeutic properties, and enriched with copper salt, is dispersed in very fine droplets through a unique nozzle"

"Unique Nozzle", May have to start using that ...

Active ingredient 'The north sea'

Sounds like it can't fail. This time next yr Rodders.

Aren't you the funny one.

Well that's your loss if you're not willing to explore salt water sprays.

Perhaps you could try taking you pills and shoving them up your arse

Edited by lancslad58 on Tuesday 1st July 22:07

I was referring to using it as a euphemism for a Willy. I wasn’t slighting your suggestion. Sorry it you felt like that

[trevalvole]

lancslad58 said:

A few snorts of this helps me. Stérimar Hayfever & Allergy Relief

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/st%C3%...

"100 percent Natural Sea water based nasal spray, rich in marine minerals renowned for their therapeutic properties, and enriched with copper salt, is dispersed in very fine droplets through a unique nozzle"

These days I only get mild hayfever, so use the following as you get about twice as much for your money and there's no gas cylinder which, in my experience, is quite good at making you use more than you need.

https://www.superdrug.com/health/cough-cold-flu/co...

which is cheaper than the identical allergy version: https://www.superdrug.com/health/allergy-hayfever/...

If I had worse hayfever, as I used to (inhaler, eye drops and anti-histamines), then I'm not sure I'd use something like this as I suspect they just work by washing the pollen-containing snot out of your nose.

[Anthony Micallef]

For my hay fever I use one a day Benadryl, Beconase nasal spray and then Opticrom Sodium Cromoglicate eye drops.

Edited by Anthony Micallef on Wednesday 2nd July 14:35