Hayfever - no more tablets and eye drops.

Poppy9

Sterling_geezer wrote:

I get hayfever every year and its a pain.


If you get hayfever bad then see you GP because they can prescribe a months worth at a time (28tablets at just over £6) which is a lot cheaper than buying them over the counter.

Sterling.

See my earlier post if you live in England cheaper to buy a months supply in Tesco's @ £4 for 28 tablets.

If you live in Wales and are under 25 - Free prescriptions
If you live in Wales and are over 25 - £4 per item on prescription until 2007 then free

Sterling_geezer

Crikey thats cheap! Right I'm off to tesco's to stock up before summer!

Thanks for that.

Sterling.

jellyhead

my hayfever started in feb this year and it's affecting my asthma. is anything safe during pregnancy? the gp wouldn't even look it up and just refused but i read in prima that there are safe antihistamines during pregnancy but it didn't say which ones. mother in law reckons my asthma is worse for the baby than taking antihistamine would be, on bad days i crawl, can't walk, i'm far too breathless to get my son to and from school, can't go to work, can't make my own food, i just sit around struggling to breathe and the baby goes insane, kicking really violently, this can't be good for him, but is anthistamine worse? when i can breathe normally he barely moves so the violent kicking really does worry me, is he getting enough oxygen? my gp said i was being anxious, basically said i'm having panic attacks but i've never been the panicky type, it's definitely hayfever.

Sterling_geezer

I think the rules of this forum forbid me from giving you a specific reply, but I would suggest you ask your Midwife for advice, if your GP is being unhelpful then she can refer you to the obstitrician at the hospital for advice.

Sterling.

Poppy9

One of my sisters developed severe Asthma while pregnant I'm sure she had an inhaler. It stayed with her until her son was about 8 months old and then completely disappeared.

A friend who suffered from hayfever didn't take anything during pregnancy as she was told it wasn't safe. Her symtoms didn't include asthma though just the streaming eyes and nose.

If you are really struggling, and it sounds as if you are, either try to see another GP in your practice (if there is one) or go to A&E during an attack. Do you have any friends with Asthma who have been pregnant? Ask them if they continued using inhalers. It may be they treat the symtoms not the cause.

There may some info of use here.

Asthmas & Allergy info

jellyhead

thanks for the replies :-) i'm using my inhalers but they don't touch the breathlessness really, it's not constant, usually comes in 2 or 3 bursts a day. i get it every year and antihistamine gets rid of it. i'm sure i took it during my last pregnancy 9 years ago, along with steroids, etc. i will ask the midwife about it. hubby has said he's taking me to A&E during my next attack but luckily it didn't happen yesterday, maybe if it doesn't happen today i can go to work tomorrow, perhaps the main cause of it has stopped growing :-)

Helen_Kelly_2

I suffer terribly from hayfever and understand absolutely the misery of streaming eyes and runny nose. I'm always on the look-out for something that works and try pretty much anything usually with minimal success.

However, I recently came across a natural remedy (in Easy Gardening magazine) and ordered some online. The day it arrived I was suffering and tried it immediately, to my surprise it WORKED !! It's called Haymax and you can find it at www.haymax.biz (even better it only cost me about £5 :T )

max2002ad

If you are concerned about hayfever medication and pregnancy i would suggest speaking to your pharmacist. They will always be available to give you advice.
Nasaleze is not a particularly new concept, there have been products like this for donkeys years and most of them have come and gone in a puff of smoke.
Try it if you like but with hayfever like everything there is not one thing that will solve the problem it's a whole selection of things that you can do that will prove sucessful.

Sam_26

As with my offering last year to MSE readers, in conjunction with our pharmacy, we would like to offer hayfever sufferers the following mail order offer (as authorized by Martin last year), which should be the cheapest on the high street:

Cetirzine 10mg Tablets x 30 £2.99 (same active ingredient as Zirtek/Benadryl)
Loratidine 10mg Tablets x 30 £2.99 (same active ingredient as Clarityn)
Chlorphenamine 4mg Tablets x 30 £1.99 (same active ingredient as Piriton)
Beclomethasone Nasal Spray 200 Dose £3.99 (same active ingredient as Beconase)
Flixonase Nasal Spray 60 dose £5.49 (No loss of patent, but very good)

Please contact North Meols Pharmacy on 01704 227075, where you will be asked questions about your medical history and condition to check you can safely take these medicines.

We normally ask for a minimum purchase of £5 via credit card or readers are welcome to post cheques or cash (at own risk).

Last year, this was very successful with MSE readers and we have been asked by people who kept our number from last year to repost.

We will donate 25p from every transaction to our local charity as a gesture of our goodwill this year and if we are overpriced in any fashion, we will aim to price match, but we are very sure we have the lowest UK prices.

Nile

If you have a Morrisons Supermarket near you, they are selling the Nasaleze product at £6.95.

This is much cheaper than buying from the Nasaleze website at ~£10 each.:cool: