Boots ownbrand hayfever tablets

rowantoad

I'd love to know why more and more people are suffering from hayfever. Surely people haven't always suffered from this... allergic to pollen... must be great for the drugs companies costs me a quid before I can go outside.

MastG

rowan,

this is the first time i have had hayfever, as such.
In the past I have had 'summer colds' but this year have had real problems.

I was in India late last year and picked up a chest infection. This seems, now, to have triggered full blown hayfever. ( I am still being seen by my doctor but they are putting everything down to my hayfever)

Gary

rowantoad wrote:

I'd love to know why more and more people are suffering from hayfever. Surely people haven't always suffered from this... allergic to pollen... must be great for the drugs companies costs me a quid before I can go outside.

lisyloo

I'd love to know why more and more people are suffering from hayfever.

I think is to do with the very clean environments we now live in.
We are unused to dealing with it so our body can't cope.

I actually think we might see life expectancy drop because we are now living less healthily.
Those people who survived the war years have a lot of immunity.
We're all just gonna collapse at the first sight of disease.

Mr_Womby

Sainsbury's in-house pharmacies are currently selling 30 Hay-Rite Loratidine tabs for £2.99.

wendypie

i work in tesco pharmacy and are loratadine(think thats how u spell it!!) which is the same as zirtec, own brand are buy one get free which is 60 tabs for apox £3.49. v cheap. (cant remember exactly as i'm off work at the moment) also our own brand ibuprofen is at least a third cheaper than nurofen (and yes there exactly the same!!) the amount of people that wont switch cause they think its different stuff! its always worth asking if we do a generic version.

Poppy9

wendypie wrote:

i work in tesco pharmacy and are loratadine(think thats how u spell it!!) which is the same as zirtec

~Thats a bit worrying as I don't work in a pharmacy and know Cetirizine is the generic equivalent of Zirtek and Loratidine is Clarityn.:o

Cheap hayfever drugs have been discussed on an earlier MS thread

MSE hayfever drugs discussion

Just to add if you live in Wales prescriptions are just £4, to be free from 2007. However please think of the cost in prescribing the drugs. Not just the GPs time in signing prescriptions (assuming you don't need an appointment) but also the cost of the pharmacist dispensing, processing and being paid for the prescription. Does anyone know the standard unit cost of producing/filling a prescription. I bet its in the region of £20 per script as there are at least 3 separate bodies involved (GP/Pharmacy/Health Service admin). Over the counter might cost you a few pence more if you can get more than 1 months supply but if we all contribute to cutting costs hopefully the NHS will really be there for us when we need it.

Moneynut_2

I`ve just got a "30 day Loratadine pack" from Sainsbury`s Pharmacy for £2.99. You have to ask the pharmacist or their assistant for them. The ones on the shelf are £0.99/7 tablets, so its worth asking the staff what`s on offer behind the counter.

Leodogger

I never used to suffer with hayfever or anything up to the age of mid twenties - thirtees, then I started with hayfever and following that I developed an allergy to dust, then aerosols and smoke. Gradually my allergies have got worse and I now also suffer from arthritus. My children and grandchildren, and even my nieces adn nephews all suffer with hayfever, eczema, and asthma . I always tell people I am allergic to the twentieth century because that is what it feels like. More recently my husband has developed hayfever (in his fifties). I think that the allergens in the air are increasing due to the use of all these cleaning products and things we treat surfaces with and deodorants etc., as we become more and more clean we seem to become allergic to more and more things.

People were much more healthy in the old days or so it seems when they were exposed to "their peck of dirt" as my grandma used to say. I think she was right.

rowantoad

I spent most of my childhood knee deep in streams, ponds and fields. Catching frogs, building dams, camps etc. I must have been exposed to my fair share of muck. I was the only one to get hayfever in my class, I think only 3 in the year had it. This was 20 years ago. No offence to my mother but our house was probably way below average in the cleanliness stakes being 4 of us kids, a cat and hamsters, gerbils etc. She never used any spray cleaners back then just diluted bleach and disenfectant in the bathroom and kitchen, windolene once every six months, the hoover senior.

I always thought it might have been pesticides or whatever from the fields that got me, one old guy once gave me dire warnings when an oil seed rape field was planted one year and I was in it. His bungalow overlooked it.

Can't have been toothpaste or soap as I hardly used it heh. A plain water bath everyday with el-cheapo shampoo.

wendypie

sorry my bad, like i said i'm off work at the moment had an operation they must have removed my brain by mistake!!
sorry