Hayfever - no more tablets and eye drops.

Katgoddess

bluekp wrote:

Has anyone noticed that their hayfever has been particularly bad this year?

All the sufferers I know in Kent are saying its much worse than they remember it being for years - me included.

I'm taking Piriton (though will try an own brand with same active ingrediant), Beconase, local honey & Echinacea.

I'm in NW Kent and mine has been really bad this year. Normally I can get away with only a packet of tissues.

I have been taking Galpharms loratadine from poundland (but i think it can be got cheaper) and it has been very good. Brought Beconase the other day but can't really get the hang of it.

What does Echinacea do and where do you get your honey from?

bluekp

Katgoddess,

Echinacea is a natural remedy which is known to boost the immune system and also to reduce inflammation of the mucas membranes - hayfever is so bad this year that anything is worth a go!

I got my honey from a farm shop in Goudhurst, but I would guess that you can probably buy it in garden centres and similar places.

bylromarha

I saw this on This morning a couple of weeks ago.

Anyone used it? The doc on there said he'd used it on his family and it was the first thing he's ever found that's worked properly!

http://www.anhealth.co.uk/cgi-bin/product.pl?id=medi1&x=72&y=16

Mumstheword

This year, I have used a homeopathic remedy called nux vomica. sounds lovely doesnt it! The advice given to me was to take one every 30 minutes for relief of acute symptoms, then 2 per day. i started this about 2 months ago and noticed an improvement the first day, and havent taken anything at all for the last few weeks! (except for one day, when i needed a 'booster' of one tablet)

I also took nettle leaf extract, in liquid form, but I really think it's the nux vomica that helped, because I kept forgetting the nettle juice!

I have no idea of the pollen count over the past few weeks as I havent been affected...maybe it's low anyway and just coincidence, but I definitely noticed an improvement.

Stumpy

Mumstheword wrote:

This year, I have used a homeopathic remedy called nux vomica. sounds lovely doesnt it! The advice given to me was to take one every 30 minutes for relief of acute symptoms, then 2 per day. i started this about 2 months ago and noticed an improvement the first day, and havent taken anything at all for the last few weeks! (except for one day, when i needed a 'booster' of one tablet)

I did a search for this and came up with:

http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/n/nuxvom08.html

Scary!!!

Mumstheword

Haha, yeah Stumpy, it is scary when you read about some of these things!

Quite a few of the homeopathic remedies are poisons. But they are used inminute quantites. I'm no expert, but suspect that it works by making your body produce a 'cure' for it, thus curing your symptoms too. In a similar way to vaccinations which are tiny live doses of the disease themselves.

Anyway, having tried it, I'm convinced! Don't try anything you aren't happy with though!

makintracks

digp wrote:

any natural remedies?

I have in the past tried a few different ones -

Luffa Complex (Tincture)
Eyebright (eye symptoms) (Tincture)
Local honey

and possibly one or two others I can not recall just now. The first year I tried alternative therapies I used a combo of 3 products (Luffa, Eyebright and something else I forgot the name of). This worked very well and I came through the season without any medication. However, it was expensive (I bought the Bioforce products from a local health store) and hard work as some of the products had to be taken 3 times per day.

The following year I was too lazy to take all this wonderful stuff, but felt that my symptoms were much reduced. I took regular medications for the short period that I couldn't bear the pollens.

The following year I tried the local honey option, but as I could only buy it in the comb and do not have much of a sweet tooth, I didn't take enough to know whether this would have worked for me.

Most recently I read about Stinging Nettle and decided to give it a go. I started taking it in April and I was very impressed at how well it worked. It was middle of June before I started to feel a little discomfort and I have just now decided to buy some medication to help me through the toughest period. My husband has also been taking it and does not feel the need to resort to any additional medication - he is a hard man to impress, but it certainly is working for him.

Althought the tincures are generally expensive (especially Bioforce products) I have found a good organic local supplier that produces good quality Stinging Nettle (and loads of other stuff) at half the price of the Bioforce product. If you are interested, they are here -

http://www.fullspectrum.org.uk/displayprods.asp?qid=1&qdbquery=searchprodbycat&qtitle=Herbal+Tinctures+Organic

Stinging Nettle does not help with eye symptoms though.

HTH

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PS: I am not affiliated to the abovementioned company in any way and found them on the web after researching cheaper options for tinctures.

Sam_26

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Prior to Royal Mail putting their postal prices up, we are having an end of season clearance sale:

Chlorphenamine (Piriton) Tablets x 28 = 49p (Min Purchase 10) FREEPOST
LORATIDINE (CLARITYN) TABLETS x 30 = 69p (Min Purchase 10) FREEPOST
LOPERAMIDE (IMODIUM) 2mg CAPS x 30 = 99p (Min Purchase 3) FREEPOST
AKMICARE® 3 Product Set WAS £39.99 NOW £9.99
Nurofen Plus Tablets x 24 WAS £5.03 NOW £2.99
Feminax Capsules x 20 WAS £3.20 NOW 99p
Oxy in the Shower 200ml WAS £4.49 NOW 99p
TIGI Boys Boys 100ml WAS £13.99 NOW £1.99
Accu-Chek Blood Glucose Meters NOW 1p

I'm sure, you cannot beat these prices anywhere!

cupid_s

In the past I have had awful hayfever. Nothing helped. I took steroid sprays, eye drops, at one point I was taking 4-5 tablets a day and still could hardly breathe. I would have to have days and days off work, and when at work my colleagues had to do most of the stuff for me as I couldn't do sterile procedures as I was sneezing on everything!

At the beginning of this year I went for a series of injection at the hospital. It's called desensitization therapy and can be done against dust mite allergy/ bee alergy and other things as well.

I had to have 4 injections - one a week. But I am told that next year I shouldn't have to take anything. Sometimes if you're really bad you need to have injections two years running and i was speaking so some people going there for their second year. They said it was amazing, and that their symptoms had decreased dramatically.

This year I still had to take tablets and one weekend i was worse than ever but I think this may be due to the pollen season starting particularly early before i had chance to build up proper immunity.

If hayfever ruins your life, it might be worth asking the doctor about these injections. You need to have them between december and february

queensway_boy

My hayfevers back today:o