Hayfever

[Rickster123]

Anyone else suffering out there? And what pills are you popping for it?

This year seems to be the worst for a long while. I actually think the pills are making it worse too. Roll on the winter!!

 

[galaxy_plumbing]

i have very bad one this year. only taking cetirizine hydrochloride.

 

[Dotty]

Anyone else suffering out there? And what pills are you popping for it?

This year seems to be the worst for a long while. I actually think the pills are making it worse too. Roll on the winter!!

Nope. Never suffered with it.

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Never bothered me thankfully, but I've heard it can be a right pain in the scrotum 🙁

 

[Mike Jackson]

I take Lotradine. The other ones make me drowsy.

 

[T & H Plumbing]

Same as him a take Lotradine 🙂

 

[townfanjon]

I am on the Tesco hayfever and allergy relief pills (cetirizine hydrochloride), loads cheaper than the chemists.
If I take half a pill every other day BEFORE any symptons get to bad, they work great.

 

[hammers4spanner]

I'm on vodka don't even know hay fever exists or even if it's summer or winter

 

[Boilerbud]

I am in Essex and are dying, nose is running like a tap. I am also using cetrazine hydrochloride in 180mg tablets still suffering.

 

[village idiot]

Have never suffered from it till this year? WHY NOW??????
Was on my way to a job on Thursday when out of nowhere (just after passing a chap mowing a field), I started sneezing like mad. I was so close to loosing control of the van.
If this is how bad it affects peeps, then those with hay fever should be BANNED from driving.

My nostrils were running so badly I had to pull over, take off my T Shirt and use it as a hanky.

 

[solutions]

I have taken cetirizine hydrochloride but although effective I did find it made me slightly drowsy. Loratadine is my go to pill also known by the brand name Claritin. You do have to start taking it ahead of the season as its affects are ***ulative. Beconase nasal spray helps with the runny nose and sneezing. In my experience having suffered quite badly with hayfever since I was about 11 blowing your nose is bad, sniff lightly if you can, or keep your nose blocked mop it up and breath through your mouth. If you blow your nose you clear it for a fresh dose of irritant pollen and you iritate the nasal passage ways. Then you just end up endlessly violently sneezing streams of snot and mucus and it ends up in your sinusses and your eyes start running worse and then your throat itches your toung gets dry and thick and then you die.

 

[Rickster123]

then you die.

Hahaha!

 

[village idiot]

I have taken cetirizine hydrochloride but although effective I did find it made me slightly drowsy. Loratadine is my go to pill also known by the brand name Claritin. You do have to start taking it ahead of the season as its affects are ***ulative. Beconase nasal spray helps with the runny nose and sneezing. In my experience having suffered quite badly with hayfever since I was about 11 blowing your nose is bad, sniff lightly if you can, or keep your nose blocked mop it up and breath through your mouth. If you blow your nose you clear it for a fresh dose of irritant pollen and you iritate the nasal passage ways. Then you just end up endlessly violently sneezing streams of snot and mucus and it ends up in your sinusses and your eyes start running worse and then your throat itches your toung gets dry and thick and then you die.

You really think I am going to die?

 

[solutions]

You really think I am going to die?

Given your response to my post its a distinct possibility.

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

I have taken cetirizine hydrochloride but although effective I did find it made me slightly drowsy. Loratadine is my go to pill also known by the brand name Claritin. You do have to start taking it ahead of the season as its affects are ***ulative. Beconase nasal spray helps with the runny nose and sneezing. In my experience having suffered quite badly with hayfever since I was about 11 blowing your nose is bad, sniff lightly if you can, or keep your nose blocked mop it up and breath through your mouth. If you blow your nose you clear it for a fresh dose of irritant pollen and you iritate the nasal passage ways. Then you just end up endlessly violently sneezing streams of snot and mucus and it ends up in your sinusses and your eyes start running worse and then your throat itches your toung gets dry and thick and then you die.

that last bit is spot on mate......I die like that at least twice a day in summer!

 

[solutions]

Actually been looking in to masks and these as rediculous as they sound.
http://www.nosefilters.com/index.html

 

[lame plumber]

achoo 🙂

 

[PlumbersMate]

Benadryl Plus are only things working for me that I can still work and drive on. £6 for 12 though and you're only allowed one pack at a time.
My nan also gives me the ones she gets from hospital but man alive they knock me bandy

 

[julesverne]

i get 2 months supply of fexafenadine from the docs as cetririzine hydrochloride gives me headaches for some reason. its not as bad as i get older.

 

[SimonG]

Luckily never been afflicted, but know a few people who are, so know how bad it can be. I have to carry Piriton tablets with me after a reaction to penicillin. Now that wasnt fun.

 

[solutions]

Benadryl Plus are only things working for me that I can still work and drive on. £6 for 12 though and you're only allowed one pack at a time.
My nan also gives me the ones she gets from hospital but man alive they knock me bandy

some times when mine is really bad I take my loratadine with cold and flue decongestants its the same as taking benadryl plus which is an antihistamine like loratadin (although not loratadine) and pseudophedrine which is a decongestant that stops your nose from stuffing up and running. a lot cheaper than the brand name pills.

 

[Chalked]

Loratadene for me. Try to take 1 every day from April to September. It tends t work that well that you think you are ok. So you stop for a few days only to find the runny nose, sore eyes and throaght comes straight back.

 

[Millsy 82]

I have started suffering from hayfever again this year after going 15 years without suffering apart from 1-2 days a year when I used to help shifting all the haybales into the shed. I'm just using benadryl allergy relief and thats working quite well but I'm not getting it too bad.

 

[zzzjim]

Re : Catching some of that Pollen , I've always been dabbing a bit of vaseline on Nose , some one explained this year , that may be helping trap some of pollen . (Taking cheap non drowsy pills early ) ... and now treating vaseline as a preventative - rather than After nose as red as a Clowns Hooter !

 

[lame plumber]

only thing that does for me is the pollen from ripping ivy off my fences, cant see or breathe after doing it!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[wetdrip]

Got the nipper squealing at me now,"I'm out of hay fever tablets!"
He's in the shower now, gobbing and blowing.
"Tuff, pal."

 

[Resolute]

If you eat locally produced honey then it helps you build a tolerance to the pollen. Also, the nasal sprays are more effective, but you need to take them daily regardless of symptoms for them to build up and work.

 

[zzzjim]

If you eat locally produced honey then it helps you build a tolerance to the pollen. ............

YUM YUM that's the kind of advice I like !