Developing hayfever at 30

[FlyingMeeces]

Surely not?!

It just seems ludicrous.

I'm 30, in as good health as I'm ever gonna get physically, have lived in the same house for 7 years now.

An azalea (I think?!) got planted in the garden and it's flowering, and now I am sneezing and snotting morning noon and night but definitely do not have a cold and FFS this is a ridiculous immune blip and I would like it to go away.

[ch108]

You can develop hayfever at any age, and not everyone is allergic to the same things or has the same degree of symptoms. The fact you are only suffering since the introduction of a certain plant gives you the probable cause. I would get rid of the plant, or try anti-histamines.

Having had hayfever since I was a kid, (it was alot worse then, than I get now), grass pollen is what I'm allergic to, or strongly smelling plants like tomato plants can cause problems aswell. Sneezing fits, nose blowing or swollen or sore streaming eyes.(I even had in extreme attacks as a kid, breathing issues almost like asthma, but caused by pollen!)

Personally I find taking anti-histamines is a waste of time if you already feel the symptoms coming on, and tend to take them daily during the summer months to prevent any symptoms happening. By far the best resolution is to stay away from what you are allergic to. Not always easy to avoid.

Edited by ch108 on Monday 23 May 23:13

[so called]

I started this year at 57
For me it may be the pollen volume as there is tons of it from the rape seed fields in Germany at the moment.
All the cars are covered in it every morning.

[AB]

I started a couple of years ago at 28. It's around this time of year I'm permanently struggling with a streaming nose and eyes I want to claw at.

[Kiwi LS2]

Next is grey hair and failing joints! I got it about the same age, I find piriton sorts me out and you can buy a tub of hundreds online for very little. Don't get sucked into buying antihistamines in the supermarket. Find the drug the works, get the generic version for a quarter of the price.

Hayfever sucks, you have my sympathies.

[malks222]

yep, started at about 28/29 for me. just randomly one summer started with the running nose/ super itchy eyes...... some anti-hestimine for the first few weeks of symptoms , then usually by proper summer i'm absolutely fine and dont need to take anything.

I also developed an allergy to some citrus fruits (mouth gets really itchy, lips tingle, mouth feels swollen) around the same time. dunno if its connected but its a pain in the a$$!

[944fan]

Same here, started for the first time last year when I was 34. Not too bad but annoying none the less.

I also despite swimming 5 days a week for years, suddenly developed a sensitivity to chlorine out of nowhere.

[durbster]

I'd never had it until I went to Le Mans when I was in my mid-20s. Out of the blue my eyes started pouring and itching constantly, and I remember missing a chunk of the race because I had to go and sit in the car with slices of cucumber on my eyes to give me some relief.

And it wasn't an easy thing to try and explain to a French chemist using GCSE French either

I had a total break from it when I went to Australia for a couple of years, then got it again when I came back to the UK.

[Otispunkmeyer]

I started to get it at about 20. Sometimes its fine though which suggests only a particular type of pollen or perhaps not even pollen but dust. Had it particularly bad last year and somehow ended up with a sinus infection that felt like my head was going to pop. Like someone shoved a balloon up there and was pumping it for all they were worth.

I think that was to do with the environment though. Old dusty offices laced with years of concrete dust and old AirCon units that probably had god knows what growing in them. In new shiny offices now and not a peep so far!

At home it doesn't seem to matter whether we dust/clean/hoover or not, but found certain washing powders/detergents set it off. Especially if bed sheets were washed in said powders.

[Morningside]

You will get more annoyed in telling people that you do NOT have a cold all the time.

[5potTurbo]

I developed hayfever in my mid 30s.

My GP said that it was because I'd grown up on the coast and now live in a landlocked country, where it's common for the spring/Summer airflow to drop to a point where we have smog.

My allergies were triggered by pine pollen about 10 years ago whilst on a camping holiday in Western France, and I sometimes need Ventolin to counteract the impacts. It's a royal pain in the arse, sometimes.