I know that for most of us hayfever suffers, those irritable months of sneezing have thankfully passed.
For all those hayfever suffers, or people who know someone that does, how do you manage to cope during those summer months?
I personally have awful hayfever, ever since I was a kid, and it has always plagued me every year. For me I remember the horrid times I had trying to do my school exams, sat right next to a open window, whilst the grass was being cut next to me. Sat there with both pockets full to the brim with tissues, not a pleasant experience I can tell you!!
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chrisb84uk
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pink princess
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ive been quite lucky thus far and never really had a problem
i hear though that the most helpful thing is to eat honey, and even better than just normal shop bought mass-made honey find some local honey...
its meant to work wonders
i hear though that the most helpful thing is to eat honey, and even better than just normal shop bought mass-made honey find some local honey...
its meant to work wonders
life is what you make it
my boyfriend just proposed to me (05/05/05) and im blissfully happy!! :-4 im engaged!! i have a fiance!! :-4
um..... well thats a bit out of date! im married now! and married life is the best thing in the entire world! with my husband by side my life is complete
:-4
my boyfriend just proposed to me (05/05/05) and im blissfully happy!! :-4 im engaged!! i have a fiance!! :-4
um..... well thats a bit out of date! im married now! and married life is the best thing in the entire world! with my husband by side my life is complete
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chrisb84uk
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Hmmm I'll have to try that, thanks PP. Though you wouldn't catch me going anywhere near a bee hive, as I'm terriifed of bees (though that's a different subject altogether!! 
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PurpleChicken
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I tend to just struggle along. Try to avoid using drugs when possible becuase I find that I become desensitised to them after a while. Of course that means that by the time I've decided that I really need to take something, it's taken hold, and I'm REALLY struggling!!
I have quite a few triggers, including changes in climate - which makes it all rather fun when I travel. I have often thought about getting tested for allergies and seeing where that takes me. Actually had a referral to see an allergist a few years ago, but the move to Melbourne got in the way, and the Melbourne climate has actually been much better for me. Has been interesting being back in Brisbane, and I'm certianly noticing the change. At least it might motivate me into action!!!
But I guess in general, I've just learned to live with it! Would be nice not to have to put up with it though!!!
I have quite a few triggers, including changes in climate - which makes it all rather fun when I travel. I have often thought about getting tested for allergies and seeing where that takes me. Actually had a referral to see an allergist a few years ago, but the move to Melbourne got in the way, and the Melbourne climate has actually been much better for me. Has been interesting being back in Brisbane, and I'm certianly noticing the change. At least it might motivate me into action!!!
But I guess in general, I've just learned to live with it! Would be nice not to have to put up with it though!!!
Hayfever
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Hello sneezers, here's another, randall,
I hope you don't mind my adding two bits to the thread.
I have never know a life ( I'm 74 now) without it.
My Grandmother swore I was born (at home of course in those days) with eczema - "present" is beside her name on my birth certificate but even twenty years later my mother was too embarrassed to tell me that it meant her mother was present at my birth?????
Anyway, I can remember the itching and scratching up into my teens but in meantime, asthma had hit me about the age of two.
Visiting a farm with my grandmother about the age of four I was wise enough to climb onto a beehive and knocked it over - the bees were not very pleased.
As it was mid summer I was only wearing a thin short sleeved shirt and thin short trousers with ankle socks so they had plenty of area of skin to ge their stings into.
It took them hours to pick out all the stings - well into the night - call a doctor? Well. doctors cost 7/6p and anyway nobody called out a doctor for bee stings.
In my early teen when I was beginning to take my health into my own hands I managed to get a series of tests for allergy.
They did both arms, about a dozen on each all at once (Those were the days my friend) My mother fainted at the sight of the blood.
A year or two later my local doctor ( they really did not take it very seriously in the 1930's - 1940's) sent away for tests to do himself - the pollens of many grasses, if I remember right.
He administered them and put me into the waiting room for to "develop" whilst he saw the other patients. I think he had forgotten me - by the time he remembered me I had a XXXX attack of asthma and he couldn't stick a syringe of ANDRENALINE into me fast enough.
He received a big shock and told my father so. SO my father bawled me out for not telling HIM - to me it was just another incident in my long history of many illnesses.
About the second year of my engineering apprenticeship I had a terribly itchy face one Saturday night - so bad that I had to sleep ON my hands and arms to keep myself from tearing at my face.
"OH MY GOD!" was my mother's reaction when she came into my bedroom the next morning - My face was so red and swollen that my forehead hung down over my eyes and my chin started about the middle of my chest.
Eventually I saw a doctor and he blamed diesel oil allergy and I was off work for about three months before my face and head got back to normal.
The treatment? Bathe with oatmeal soaked in warm water - there was nothing else. The fluid that oozed out as a clear liquid turned bright yellow upon drying in to a hard cracking scab.
It never came back.
In Hong Kong I attended the Baptist Hospital and found American doctors were far more interested in asthma, allergies and a lot of other things. They said that I was allergic to so many thing that the best thing was just to treat the symptoms with antihistamines - a new discovery!
Britain was so far behind the times that about the age of fourteen my mother paid a considerable sum of money - for those days - for me to see a specialist in Queens Road in Aberdeen where all the specialists lived - a bit like Harley Street, in London.
I shall never forget his remarks after a long consultation.
"It's uncomfortable and a nuisance but it's not fatal you know."
The past month I have returned to the bad old days of heavy, violent sneezing (I blame my wife's insistence that I "Must do something with that garden") and then my face swole up and my left eyelids got to about three times there normal thickness and the eye puffed out like a ping pong ball - closed.
As is often the case, my own doctor was not only on holiday but so was my pharmacist and optician.
I had to see a standby doctor at "A & E" who insisted that I had a slight infection of the eye and he would give me some antibiotic eye drops. I remonstrated with him that was antihistamine I needed but all to no avail.
The pharmacist's locum also insisted that the Doctor was always right and that was all that was wrong with my eye.
I told her I had seventy years experience of these conditions and over the years many doctors of many nationalities have told me that people who suffer chronic illnesses all of their lives become experts in that field and usually the doctor asks them what they want.
I eventually saw the opticians locum, a very nice young lady of great understanding who listened to my long history of allergy and eye problems as |I had nearly lost my left eye in 1962 because an allergic reaction had cut off the blood supply to that eye.
Somewhat mollified by her intense examination, as we also have a history of glaucoma in the family, I went home to wait for my own doctor's return from holiday.
I received the surprise of my life when on the Monday evening of the next week he telephoned me and, without preamble, asked, "What is you want from us?"I told him and he told me that he would have not given me the treatment I had been given and that there would be a prescription in the pharmacy the next day.
And there was. It was not a miraculous cure, they rarely are, but at last I could see out of both eyes and although they are both still slightly swollen it does not prevent me from writing.
That, I don't think I could stand. My father was blind for several years before he died at ninety. I really felt deep sorrow for him as his whole life was fishing, his garden and the bowling green.
So fellow allergists. Stick to your guns and don't be afraid to tell a doctor he doesn't know what he is talking about when he hasn't experienced it himself.
Even in "Dr Findlay's Casebook." Dr Findlay came in and blurted out, "That man's insufferable. He thinks he knows more about TB than I do."
"But he does," interjected Dr Cameron. "Chronic suffers are always experts in their own bodies."
God Bless All.
randall
Hello sneezers, here's another, randall,
I hope you don't mind my adding two bits to the thread.
I have never know a life ( I'm 74 now) without it.
My Grandmother swore I was born (at home of course in those days) with eczema - "present" is beside her name on my birth certificate but even twenty years later my mother was too embarrassed to tell me that it meant her mother was present at my birth?????
Anyway, I can remember the itching and scratching up into my teens but in meantime, asthma had hit me about the age of two.
Visiting a farm with my grandmother about the age of four I was wise enough to climb onto a beehive and knocked it over - the bees were not very pleased.
As it was mid summer I was only wearing a thin short sleeved shirt and thin short trousers with ankle socks so they had plenty of area of skin to ge their stings into.
It took them hours to pick out all the stings - well into the night - call a doctor? Well. doctors cost 7/6p and anyway nobody called out a doctor for bee stings.
In my early teen when I was beginning to take my health into my own hands I managed to get a series of tests for allergy.
They did both arms, about a dozen on each all at once (Those were the days my friend) My mother fainted at the sight of the blood.
A year or two later my local doctor ( they really did not take it very seriously in the 1930's - 1940's) sent away for tests to do himself - the pollens of many grasses, if I remember right.
He administered them and put me into the waiting room for to "develop" whilst he saw the other patients. I think he had forgotten me - by the time he remembered me I had a XXXX attack of asthma and he couldn't stick a syringe of ANDRENALINE into me fast enough.
He received a big shock and told my father so. SO my father bawled me out for not telling HIM - to me it was just another incident in my long history of many illnesses.
About the second year of my engineering apprenticeship I had a terribly itchy face one Saturday night - so bad that I had to sleep ON my hands and arms to keep myself from tearing at my face.
"OH MY GOD!" was my mother's reaction when she came into my bedroom the next morning - My face was so red and swollen that my forehead hung down over my eyes and my chin started about the middle of my chest.
Eventually I saw a doctor and he blamed diesel oil allergy and I was off work for about three months before my face and head got back to normal.
The treatment? Bathe with oatmeal soaked in warm water - there was nothing else. The fluid that oozed out as a clear liquid turned bright yellow upon drying in to a hard cracking scab.
It never came back.
In Hong Kong I attended the Baptist Hospital and found American doctors were far more interested in asthma, allergies and a lot of other things. They said that I was allergic to so many thing that the best thing was just to treat the symptoms with antihistamines - a new discovery!
Britain was so far behind the times that about the age of fourteen my mother paid a considerable sum of money - for those days - for me to see a specialist in Queens Road in Aberdeen where all the specialists lived - a bit like Harley Street, in London.
I shall never forget his remarks after a long consultation.
"It's uncomfortable and a nuisance but it's not fatal you know."
The past month I have returned to the bad old days of heavy, violent sneezing (I blame my wife's insistence that I "Must do something with that garden") and then my face swole up and my left eyelids got to about three times there normal thickness and the eye puffed out like a ping pong ball - closed.
As is often the case, my own doctor was not only on holiday but so was my pharmacist and optician.
I had to see a standby doctor at "A & E" who insisted that I had a slight infection of the eye and he would give me some antibiotic eye drops. I remonstrated with him that was antihistamine I needed but all to no avail.
The pharmacist's locum also insisted that the Doctor was always right and that was all that was wrong with my eye.
I told her I had seventy years experience of these conditions and over the years many doctors of many nationalities have told me that people who suffer chronic illnesses all of their lives become experts in that field and usually the doctor asks them what they want.
I eventually saw the opticians locum, a very nice young lady of great understanding who listened to my long history of allergy and eye problems as |I had nearly lost my left eye in 1962 because an allergic reaction had cut off the blood supply to that eye.
Somewhat mollified by her intense examination, as we also have a history of glaucoma in the family, I went home to wait for my own doctor's return from holiday.
I received the surprise of my life when on the Monday evening of the next week he telephoned me and, without preamble, asked, "What is you want from us?"I told him and he told me that he would have not given me the treatment I had been given and that there would be a prescription in the pharmacy the next day.
And there was. It was not a miraculous cure, they rarely are, but at last I could see out of both eyes and although they are both still slightly swollen it does not prevent me from writing.
That, I don't think I could stand. My father was blind for several years before he died at ninety. I really felt deep sorrow for him as his whole life was fishing, his garden and the bowling green.
So fellow allergists. Stick to your guns and don't be afraid to tell a doctor he doesn't know what he is talking about when he hasn't experienced it himself.
Even in "Dr Findlay's Casebook." Dr Findlay came in and blurted out, "That man's insufferable. He thinks he knows more about TB than I do."
"But he does," interjected Dr Cameron. "Chronic suffers are always experts in their own bodies."
God Bless All.
randall
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Betty Boop
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Wow, what a story Randall!!
I've been telling the doctors for years that I had allergies, but my own GP always dismissed me and said that alergies do not exist!! After years of begging for allergy tests I had some done last year, and guess what, I have allergies, wheat, eggs, dust-mite, cat dander and perfume!
Now suddenly my GP is requesting I attend the surgery for a flu vaccination, somebody didn't do there checking out my suitability very well, The flu vaccination is delivered in albumen!:rolleyes:
I've been telling the doctors for years that I had allergies, but my own GP always dismissed me and said that alergies do not exist!! After years of begging for allergy tests I had some done last year, and guess what, I have allergies, wheat, eggs, dust-mite, cat dander and perfume!
Now suddenly my GP is requesting I attend the surgery for a flu vaccination, somebody didn't do there checking out my suitability very well, The flu vaccination is delivered in albumen!:rolleyes:
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chrisb84uk
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Hayfever
Hmmm hay huh, well I can't say I know of any places that sell hay around here, but I'll look into it, anythings worth a try to cure this blasted hayfever that I have, cheers for that Far.
Hayfever
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Randall around again, hello everyone,
My I add a bit to my novelette - if they ever get too long just tell me and I'll edit them a bit.
Writing just runs away with me - at times.
Regarding HAY FEVER; it is a misnomer and a very, very misleading name (that is called belt and braces)
Basically, it is your body fighting against itself.
I have always compared it WW II ad the Germans sending in a division to attack a British Commando Raid of half a dozen men.
Your immune system detects a foreign "thing" has penetrated the outer defences of the body somewhere and literally send a few hundred million antigens or white cells to fight it off but, as in the case of the German Division there are only so many roads to that area and they all get clogged with traffic - hence the intense heat and itch and swelling.
You can be allergic to anything, as far as my experience has shown, and like Purple Chicken I too am allergic to sudden cold such as when |I stepped into the deep freeze rooms onboard my ships.
That brought on a huge sneezing attack - now I live back in Scotland - I dread the temperature dropping towards freezing as I start sneezing the moment I open the door to take the dog out for his nightly walk. 20 to 22 degrees Celsius seems to be the perfect temperature for me.
Central heating has become a God Send.
I think all seriously affected people have had a huge uphill climb to persuade their doctors to listen to their " WHOLE STORY "- AND TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY!
My wife and I had our 'flu jab yesterday it has never caused me any direct problems and I feel that both of us have benefited from it over the years since it was introduced and we were some of the first "Guinea Pigs".
Another fortunate thing for me was that literally every doctor I have been under (GP's I mean) at home or in Hong Kong, suffered from either asthma and/or allergies.
I must say that the Baptist Hospital doctors in Hong Kong were really the first to take the matter VERY SERIOUSLY.
The paediatrician there, Dr Sam Davis (US) Southern Baptist, told me that as a young intern he had one young girl under his care in the US and was treating her with the then revolutionary drug "STEROIDS" - then thought to be the ultimate cure for asthma and allergy - PREDNISONE - was the name.
They had had her parents build a plain wooden bedroom with no carpeting on the floor and nothing but plain cotton curtains and bedclothes but one night she was rushed into the hospital with an extremely severe attack to asthma and because they had been treating her with steroids continually they really had no other drug left to treat her.
She died in Sam's arms and he said he had never felt any patients' death so bad.
It was said, jokingly by the Chinese nurses, that I was the biggest baby on his list - but he insisted on treating me as an ongoing experiment
It is taken so seriously now that I would not now be allowed to join the British Merchant Navy as it is at the top of the prohibited list of illnesses, etc.
I think this is plain stupid (after being in it for forty years) - as I had my first relatively sickness-free days the moment I went to sea and working in the engine room, more an accident than design, made it even better.
My first trip took me to the Far East and immediately I sailed through the Suez Canal I could have thrown away all my paltry, ineffective medicines - until I returned to the Mediterranean on the way back - it was geographically as clear cut as that.
So, when asked by Butterfield & Swire to join them in Hong Kong, I needed no second request but accepted immediately because I KNEW I would be well out there. I was, except in winter as it can actually snow on the mountain tops in Hong Kong - and the frost can kill your strawberry plants. Then allergy struck!
When I am told something is the opinion of an expert I always say that I don't trust experts. When asked why I reply, "Well, I'm supposed to be an expert in marine engineering and there is an awful lot about marine engineering I don't know."
I would recommend that any of you ask the person treating you if they, themselves actually suffer from allergy or asthma or had eczema.
It will make them respect you more and - perhaps - listen also.
So stick it to them Betty Boops.
God bless,
randall
:)
Randall around again, hello everyone,
My I add a bit to my novelette - if they ever get too long just tell me and I'll edit them a bit.
Writing just runs away with me - at times.
Regarding HAY FEVER; it is a misnomer and a very, very misleading name (that is called belt and braces)
Basically, it is your body fighting against itself.
I have always compared it WW II ad the Germans sending in a division to attack a British Commando Raid of half a dozen men.
Your immune system detects a foreign "thing" has penetrated the outer defences of the body somewhere and literally send a few hundred million antigens or white cells to fight it off but, as in the case of the German Division there are only so many roads to that area and they all get clogged with traffic - hence the intense heat and itch and swelling.
You can be allergic to anything, as far as my experience has shown, and like Purple Chicken I too am allergic to sudden cold such as when |I stepped into the deep freeze rooms onboard my ships.
That brought on a huge sneezing attack - now I live back in Scotland - I dread the temperature dropping towards freezing as I start sneezing the moment I open the door to take the dog out for his nightly walk. 20 to 22 degrees Celsius seems to be the perfect temperature for me.
Central heating has become a God Send.
I think all seriously affected people have had a huge uphill climb to persuade their doctors to listen to their " WHOLE STORY "- AND TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY!
My wife and I had our 'flu jab yesterday it has never caused me any direct problems and I feel that both of us have benefited from it over the years since it was introduced and we were some of the first "Guinea Pigs".
Another fortunate thing for me was that literally every doctor I have been under (GP's I mean) at home or in Hong Kong, suffered from either asthma and/or allergies.
I must say that the Baptist Hospital doctors in Hong Kong were really the first to take the matter VERY SERIOUSLY.
The paediatrician there, Dr Sam Davis (US) Southern Baptist, told me that as a young intern he had one young girl under his care in the US and was treating her with the then revolutionary drug "STEROIDS" - then thought to be the ultimate cure for asthma and allergy - PREDNISONE - was the name.
They had had her parents build a plain wooden bedroom with no carpeting on the floor and nothing but plain cotton curtains and bedclothes but one night she was rushed into the hospital with an extremely severe attack to asthma and because they had been treating her with steroids continually they really had no other drug left to treat her.
She died in Sam's arms and he said he had never felt any patients' death so bad.
It was said, jokingly by the Chinese nurses, that I was the biggest baby on his list - but he insisted on treating me as an ongoing experiment
It is taken so seriously now that I would not now be allowed to join the British Merchant Navy as it is at the top of the prohibited list of illnesses, etc.
I think this is plain stupid (after being in it for forty years) - as I had my first relatively sickness-free days the moment I went to sea and working in the engine room, more an accident than design, made it even better.
My first trip took me to the Far East and immediately I sailed through the Suez Canal I could have thrown away all my paltry, ineffective medicines - until I returned to the Mediterranean on the way back - it was geographically as clear cut as that.
So, when asked by Butterfield & Swire to join them in Hong Kong, I needed no second request but accepted immediately because I KNEW I would be well out there. I was, except in winter as it can actually snow on the mountain tops in Hong Kong - and the frost can kill your strawberry plants. Then allergy struck!
When I am told something is the opinion of an expert I always say that I don't trust experts. When asked why I reply, "Well, I'm supposed to be an expert in marine engineering and there is an awful lot about marine engineering I don't know."
I would recommend that any of you ask the person treating you if they, themselves actually suffer from allergy or asthma or had eczema.
It will make them respect you more and - perhaps - listen also.
So stick it to them Betty Boops.
God bless,
randall
:)
Hayfever
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randall, HERE AGAIN,
Hello folks, I just thought that I would add this just to show how SOME peoples' lives are totally and I mean TOTALLLLLY control by allergies.
I have just come from my docotor's surgery in the nearby health centre.
He, if you read my other post, was the one who telephoned ME out of the blue.
Only now have I managed to get an appointment to see him as he has been away for ages lecturing on - guess what - asthma and allergies - so he must be right up there man in the GODS. (In a theartre sense I mean.)
Almost his first words were, "You really had it in for you that day. I was away, your pharmacist was on holiday as was your optician. No wonder you were worried to death."
The swelling still exists around my eyes but he didn't need me to tell him - he could see it.
"Apart from living in a plastic bubble I don't realy know what else you can do."
I said I had been considering weariong a full safety mask covering the eyes, nose and mouth with a screw on filter.
"That is the sort of protection you will need in the garden anyway." he agreed.
I told him about |Betty Boops doctor saying there was no such thing as allergy and then changing his mind and telling her to go to a clinic for allergy/asthma.
"Oh, her doctor's contract will be coming up for renewal and anthing like that would thow him right out." he replied.
So now you know, Betty Boops, your a victim of politics AGAIN.
All he could do was give me the same eyedrops and told me that he would discuss changing my antihistamine ( TELFAST ) with my pharmacist. Up here in the cold, windy northeast they at ;east work together.
So, as I said before, Sock it to them Sneezers - you do have right on your side no matter what your doctor says.
Any death from allergy and/or asthma demands a full, in depth inquiry which cane cost a doctor his or her license. They are struck off the list - as they say.
It means only one of two things.
A - The patient was not being given the correct treatment.
or
B - They were not taking their medication properly.
A poor young lad of two or thre years up in Glasgow area died after being told to use his inhaler ten-times-a-day
I use the same inhaler and only use it once or twice a day.
Only God know what all that steroids did to the poor lads system.
It was well documented in the national press.
God bless all.
randall.
randall, HERE AGAIN,
Hello folks, I just thought that I would add this just to show how SOME peoples' lives are totally and I mean TOTALLLLLY control by allergies.
I have just come from my docotor's surgery in the nearby health centre.
He, if you read my other post, was the one who telephoned ME out of the blue.
Only now have I managed to get an appointment to see him as he has been away for ages lecturing on - guess what - asthma and allergies - so he must be right up there man in the GODS. (In a theartre sense I mean.)
Almost his first words were, "You really had it in for you that day. I was away, your pharmacist was on holiday as was your optician. No wonder you were worried to death."
The swelling still exists around my eyes but he didn't need me to tell him - he could see it.
"Apart from living in a plastic bubble I don't realy know what else you can do."
I said I had been considering weariong a full safety mask covering the eyes, nose and mouth with a screw on filter.
"That is the sort of protection you will need in the garden anyway." he agreed.
I told him about |Betty Boops doctor saying there was no such thing as allergy and then changing his mind and telling her to go to a clinic for allergy/asthma.
"Oh, her doctor's contract will be coming up for renewal and anthing like that would thow him right out." he replied.
So now you know, Betty Boops, your a victim of politics AGAIN.
All he could do was give me the same eyedrops and told me that he would discuss changing my antihistamine ( TELFAST ) with my pharmacist. Up here in the cold, windy northeast they at ;east work together.
So, as I said before, Sock it to them Sneezers - you do have right on your side no matter what your doctor says.
Any death from allergy and/or asthma demands a full, in depth inquiry which cane cost a doctor his or her license. They are struck off the list - as they say.
It means only one of two things.
A - The patient was not being given the correct treatment.
or
B - They were not taking their medication properly.
A poor young lad of two or thre years up in Glasgow area died after being told to use his inhaler ten-times-a-day
I use the same inhaler and only use it once or twice a day.
Only God know what all that steroids did to the poor lads system.
It was well documented in the national press.
God bless all.
randall.
Hayfever
:-6
randall here,
I know that it was a long, long time ago that I wrote on this subject but thought that my experience of the past month or so might be of some interest.
We have had sub tropical temperatures in Scotland for about a month (rarely below 15o C and up to 26 o C) and it is apparently has caused every flower, shrub, bush, tree and any other plant in the area shoot out their blossoms and pollen unendingly for weeks.The result it that I have been almost useless ( apart from my usual uselessness) for weeks through swollen eyes through which I can hardly see the computer screen - running eyes, sneezing unendingly - a re-eruption rosacne on my face until I just feel plain miserable al day long.
That is despite being given the latest antihistamine drugs, ( i.e. "Telfast" and eye drops.l
I have just told my daughter that if she wants heat she should come back to Scotland. - Wisley Cardenas's up to 37 o C (97.8 o F )???? Now that is hot for Britain.)
Happy hot weather to you all.
God bless you all.
randall.
:)
randall here,
I know that it was a long, long time ago that I wrote on this subject but thought that my experience of the past month or so might be of some interest.
We have had sub tropical temperatures in Scotland for about a month (rarely below 15o C and up to 26 o C) and it is apparently has caused every flower, shrub, bush, tree and any other plant in the area shoot out their blossoms and pollen unendingly for weeks.The result it that I have been almost useless ( apart from my usual uselessness) for weeks through swollen eyes through which I can hardly see the computer screen - running eyes, sneezing unendingly - a re-eruption rosacne on my face until I just feel plain miserable al day long.
That is despite being given the latest antihistamine drugs, ( i.e. "Telfast" and eye drops.l
I have just told my daughter that if she wants heat she should come back to Scotland. - Wisley Cardenas's up to 37 o C (97.8 o F )???? Now that is hot for Britain.)
Happy hot weather to you all.
God bless you all.
randall.
:)
Hayfever
I used to suffer from hayfever so badly that during the worst attacks, I just had to take my meds and lock myself into my bedroom untill the symptoms got better. I seem to have grown out of it know, weird, eh?
Behaviour breeds behaviour - treat people how you would like to be treated yourself
Hayfever
Poor Randall.... sorry to hear you're suffering. I don't have hay fever, but i do have other allergies...an absolute pain. Hope it cools off for you soon and you can get back to normal I guess a little rain be be a relief.
I guess a little rain be be a relief.A smile is a window on your face to show your heart is home
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Uncle Kram
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Hayfever
I didn't develop Hay Fever until I was 40 and it's a curse. My heart goes out to anyone who's endured it all their lives. At the same time I developed a very strong reaction to insect bites. The bites on my legs which itch like crazy are driving me nuts today and my ankles, espescially my right is incredibly swollen with fluid as a result. I've heard that there's been a dramatic increase in allergies in the UK in the last few years
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN PUN
Hayfever
Uncle Kram wrote: I didn't develop Hay Fever until I was 40 and it's a curse. My heart goes out to anyone who's endured it all their lives. At the same time I developed a very strong reaction to insect bites. The bites on my legs which itch like crazy are driving me nuts today and my ankles, espescially my right is incredibly swollen with fluid as a result. I've heard that there's been a dramatic increase in allergies in the UK in the last few years
They always seem to bite you round the joints Unc (knees/ankles)...I've had bites so bad this year that I now use 'jungle' insect repellent when I go out in the garden. Once the swelling goes down I'm left with bruises.
Try the repellent Unc and Piriton tablets to ease the itching.....oh yes....something to rub in to sooth the inflamation. Bag of frozen peas wrapped in a cloth on the swelling will help too.....
They always seem to bite you round the joints Unc (knees/ankles)...I've had bites so bad this year that I now use 'jungle' insect repellent when I go out in the garden. Once the swelling goes down I'm left with bruises.
Try the repellent Unc and Piriton tablets to ease the itching.....oh yes....something to rub in to sooth the inflamation. Bag of frozen peas wrapped in a cloth on the swelling will help too.....
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Hayfever
Bez wrote: They always seem to bite you round the joints Unc (knees/ankles)...I've had bites so bad this year that I now use 'jungle' insect repellent when I go out in the garden. Once the swelling goes down I'm left with bruises.
Try the repellent Unc and Piriton tablets to ease the itching.....oh yes....something to rub in to sooth the inflamation. Bag of frozen peas wrapped in a cloth on the swelling will help too.....
Old bites have started turning to bruises on my legs too Bez. I have insect repellant, but I made the mistake of going into the garden late to fetch my washing in off the line and the tiny buggers had a feast.
I've taken an anti-histamine tablet but unfortunately I've only got frozen green beans :rolleyes:
Try the repellent Unc and Piriton tablets to ease the itching.....oh yes....something to rub in to sooth the inflamation. Bag of frozen peas wrapped in a cloth on the swelling will help too.....
Old bites have started turning to bruises on my legs too Bez. I have insect repellant, but I made the mistake of going into the garden late to fetch my washing in off the line and the tiny buggers had a feast.
I've taken an anti-histamine tablet but unfortunately I've only got frozen green beans :rolleyes:
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Uncle Kram
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Hayfever
Pinky wrote: I've heard of something that works..at the start of summer, go and buy a jar of local honey. Eat as much as you can, and apparently this builds an immunity.
I know it's a bit late now, but it's worth a go!
Will Sugar Puffs do? :-3
I know it's a bit late now, but it's worth a go!
Will Sugar Puffs do? :-3
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN PUN
Hayfever
Pinky wrote: NO!!! It has to be local honey, hunny!
will any local honey do?? :sneaky: :wah:
will any local honey do?? :sneaky:
:wah:-
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Hayfever
sunny104 wrote: will any local honey do?? :sneaky: :wah:
Where did you say you lived? :sneaky:
:wah:Where did you say you lived? :sneaky:
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