Cheapest Hayfever Remedies discussion

judyjetson

Prevalin nasal spray is only 99p in Home Bargain at the moment.

Wywth

FedExpress wrote: »

Available from Clearchemist at 18p for 30 x 10mg. Registered on-line pharmacist. Have bought from this seller and can vouch for their reliability.

But can we vouch for yours?

You failed to mention the minimum £3.19 delivery charge (and that assumes you are prepared to wait a week or more just to dispatch them) ... unless you spend over £35

Fire_Fox

Research shows some people get complete relief from hayfever symptoms by cleaning up their diet to make it immune supporting/ anti inflammatory: look at your intake of oily fish (at least twice a week), low sugar fruits and non starchy vegetables (at least five a day in the full rainbow of colours).

Substantially reduce or eliminate sugar, white/ refined carbs, high GI carbs, caffeine, alcohol, most omega-6s fats, saturated animal fats.

joan1234

I read a blog that suggested dairy products especially cheese increases the severity of your symptoms. I stopped cheese and the hayfever practically disappeared. During season I stop dairy as much as possible and last year did not take one tablet. If you must have a pizza you can always take a pill. Works within 24 hours if your one of the people dairy products reacts with so you will know very quickly if its going to be of any help.

Fire_Fox

joan1234 wrote: »

I read a blog that suggested dairy products especially cheese increases the severity of your symptoms. I stopped cheese and the hayfever practically disappeared. During season I stop dairy as much as possible and last year did not take one tablet. If you must have a pizza you can always take a pill. Works within 24 hours if your one of the people dairy products reacts with so you will know very quickly if its going to be of any help.

Pizza the problem is more likely to be the base as the cheese for most people. If you choose to avoid dairy you must replace the missing minerals with a bioavailable source, it's wise to discuss this with a doctor or dietician before randomly eliminating food groups.

Bestb4

devildog wrote: »

I need them for approx. 9 months of the year

I use ChemistDirect.co.uk, delivery is £4.75 if your order is under £40, but you can purchase 6 months supply of Cetirizine Hydrochloride (Zirtek) £5.98 and 6 months supply of Loratadine (Clarityn) £4.48. So with delivery thats around £2.63 for 30.
I buy a years supply (6 months of each - doc told me to rotate antihistamines in case they become ineffective)as I need them all year round - I'm allergic to my cat

They sell lots of other things too like pet food, perfume, electrical items. I also have to get prescription food for my cat which is a small fortune and Chemist Direct sells this also at a discounted price.
I therefore get free delivery making my antihistamines approximately £0.87 a month :T:T

Their frontline staff are very pleasant and are happy to listen to your requests and reasons for bulk buying. They also take Paypal so you can keep your credit cards etc offline.

Bestb4

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Research shows some people get complete relief from hayfever symptoms by cleaning up their diet to make it immune supporting/ anti inflammatory: look at your intake of oily fish (at least twice a week), low sugar fruits and non starchy vegetables (at least five a day in the full rainbow of colours).

Substantially reduce or eliminate sugar, white/ refined carbs, high GI carbs, caffeine, alcohol, most omega-6s fats, saturated animal fats.

Research unfortunately can be heavily biased and subjective; depending on why and who funded the research.

Fire_Fox

Bestb4 wrote: »

Research unfortunately can be heavily biased and subjective; depending on why and who funded the research.

I am qualified to degree level in a variety of health disciplines so well aware of that, but thanks.

Bazofts_Revenge

I am usually one of the first to put down alternative therapies but after getting fed up of paying out for Beconase I asked in our local herbalists if they could recommend something. They recommended Luffa complex and well apart from really high pollen days Hayfever symptoms are really down. I used to get really sore eyes now I just get a few sneezes which I can put up with and when I do get the sneezes I just use them as a reminder to have a dose of Luffa. I think a bottle costs about £9 but as one bottle last me 2 summers then it is n't that expensive. I generally only need one t spoon of it in a morning during the season. Some high pollen count days 2 or 3 spaced out depending how things go. One tip though have a glass of something nice to drink ready as the tincture version doesn't taste too great but it is something you get used to. You can get it in tablet form but I haven't tried that.

John_Pierpoint

The improvement in symptoms can be just down to anno domini - the passage of time.

As we get older our immune system tends to fade.

I can still relive my first attack of "hay" fever:
It was a still hot sunny early summer day in the mid 1960s. A group of 5 of us were standing on the bank of a canal in Hertfordshire. On the other bank was a vast field of rape in a full bloom of fluorescent yellow.
Suddenly from nowhere a mini tornado twisted across the field towards us, ruffling the surface of the water as it passed through. The pollen was so thick that the wind was accompanied by a visible yellow haze as it approached.

I found myself blinking like an owl and rubbing my eyes. Upon looking round one of our number had "disappeared". He was the hay fever sufferer amongst us. He had sunk to his knees having a major attack.
After that experience at the age of 17, each season it got worse, especially as I moved around the country and found myself living in a corn field having moved from Leicestershire to Essex. [High levels of pollen, agricultural chemicals and London's air pollution?]

In tried courses of injections, following those dozen tests on the inside of the arm; that left it looking like the arm of a junkie. They really did not seem to help.

I tried several brands of antihistamine, but I think in the 1970s they were just variations on little yellow Piriton [Chlorphenamine] tablets. You had to take several a day and they made me drowsy. [and as I am normally never ill I hate dosing myself with chemicals].

My symptoms, concentrated in my eyes, got so bad by my late 20s, that I seriously contemplated moving to somewhere with less pollen such as Plymouth or Cork.

Sodium Cromoglicate, which I heard about on the radio, proved to be my salvation.
Initially, the subscription from a sceptical doctor, was a powder to be puffed up my nose. That worked but it tended to kill my sense of taste.

So the arrival of the little drip-one-drop-into-the-corner-of-the-eye bottle of solution was a big improvement. It is a prophylactic and one has to remember that it is best take in anticipation of symptoms; rather than in an attempt to cure them.

I am pleased to say that my symptoms are getting less sever and last year, in that wet potato blight summer, I needed no treatment at all.
So a bus pass is not the only advantage of age!

I think air quality and over use of agricultural chemicals has also improved over the last 40 years.

A friend and fellow suffer clearly remembers her first attack, working as a trainee teacher in a Norfolk country school with a crop spraying plane in the adjacent field.

I would be interested in other peoples experiences of their first hay fever attack.