Hayfever?

[tamirra]

What do you do to help relieve your symptoms?????

[rinkins]

Not a lot has helped me at all this year to be honest. Contact lenses, nose spray and tablets for me! That curbs them a bit

[NoMercy]

Hi Tamirra.

My mother did a course at work the other day and she was informed that one of the best remedies for hayfever is to eat local honey. It has to be LOCAL, tho.

There are various anti-histamines available over the counter: Chloraphenamine, Cetirizine and Loratadine, etc...
From personal experience, I find Loratadine works best.

[rinkins]

Me too NM. I've heard the honey thing too, my Mum's other half did it last year and it worked but not this year for some reason. I've normally stopped suffering by now so something must be different!

[NoMercy]

Honey is also fab as the last part of a facial !!!

But the therapeutic benefits of honey as a remedy to hayfever stands to reason. Health professionals always advise you to eat local yoghurt when you go away, to get the local bugs in your tummy, which helps prevent a dodgy tum.

[China Doll]

Honey does work... I just can't find a bee hive in central London unfortunately.

Sunglasses are great for keeping pollen out the eye so I'm pretty much always in those in these months regardless of weather (which eliminates any 'cool' factor), Tescos do a good own brand of tablet, I'll often take that and a squity nose thing (boots own brand is fine) and some eye drops. If it's mild I only need the squirty adn the eye drops but lately I've needed the full works.