Hayfever starting, who uses what?

[Jay]

Last year was the first time I'd really suffered with Hayfever and hit hit me like a tonne of bricks out of the blue one morning. It was f@cking awful. I use Cetirizine Hydrochloride, which is what Piriteze is - Sainsburys do the same stuff for £1 rather than the £3-£4+ Piriteze charge, they contain exactly the same chemicals and do exactly the same thing.  The tablets are even the same shape.

[bobotheclown]

boots own brand loratadine. they come in packs of 30 and often are in buy one get one free deals.

I heard dairy makes hayfever worse as it promotes mucus production in the sinuses. This is what a friend said and they swore blind that cutting out diary for six mionths helped her hayfever no end.

i also start taking tablets well befiore tyhe season starts. I start taking tablets around end of april. june is my worst time of the year.

A bit of vaseline around the nose also helps.

[stealthwolf]

+1 for vaseline tip - recommend it to my patients. Prefer loratadine. Fexofenadine is heavy duty stuff and I tend to reserve it for more resistant cases.

[VW BUSH]

+1 for vaseline tip - recommend it to my patients. Prefer loratadine. Fexofenadine is heavy duty stuff and I tend to reserve it for more resistant cases.

Is it really?
Took me ages to get treated but at certain times of the day you can write your name on my skin and it comes up proper naughty.
After hospital trips I was told I have some unpronounceable allergy and stuck on fexofenidine, wonderful stuff.
Upshot is I don't have hayfever or pet allergy anymore, really works.

[stealthwolf]

Heavy duty in the same way as you might use tramadol/morphine for a headache when paracetamol just isn't enough. It's one of the latest/fashionable ones but also more costly. Consequently doesn't get used first choice. I'll use two others and then go for it.

There used to steroid injections for hayfever but it got dropped because of lack of solid evidence IIRC. However a couple of patients swear by it - one jab and no hayfever for the rest of the year.

[VW BUSH]

Heavy duty in the same way as you might use tramadol/morphine for a headache when paracetamol just isn't enough. It's one of the latest/fashionable ones but also more costly. Consequently doesn't get used first choice. I'll use two others and then go for it.

There used to steroid injections for hayfever but it got dropped because of lack of solid evidence IIRC. However a couple of patients swear by it - one jab and no hayfever for the rest of the year.

Was told to take 4 normal hayfever pills in one hit as and when needed before I got them, will say again they really work.

[Jay]

I heard dairy makes hayfever worse as it promotes mucus production in the sinuses. This is what a friend said and they swore blind that cutting out diary for six mionths helped her hayfever no end.

Dairy doesn't increase production of mucus, it just makes the existing mucus thicker (correct me if I'm wrong, I don't think it makes new mucus thicker) so as she said could help - just working differently. I found rinsing my mouth out and drinking a small amount of water after a glass of milk or coffee helped keep the thick mucus away.

[DubFan]

Anyone tried building up some immunity to pollen by eating lots of honey (it has to be locally produced stuff to contain your local pollens)?
I've not tried it properly myself, but apparently you have to start eating honey a few weeks before your normal hayfever season to make sure you've built up enough immunity.

[golf-sib]

Anyone tried building up some immunity to pollen by eating lots of honey (it has to be locally produced stuff to contain your local pollens)?
I've not tried it properly myself, but apparently you have to start eating honey a few weeks before your normal hayfever season to make sure you've built up enough immunity.

That seems interesting, any research to back this up?

[mcgee9t2]

cant really see it working otherwise we would all have really bad hayfever at the start of the season, then non by the end cause were used to it...

but hey ho, honey tastes nice so cant complain if you try it