Boots ownbrand hayfever tablets

Leodogger

I sometimes think these allergies come from all the additives in food, plus as you say the chemicals they spray the crops with. Didn't they stop giving cows antibiotics because they said it was increasing people's resilience to them when given by a doctor.

Anyway it appears that allergies are on the increase and I think I read somewhere that half the population will be allergic to something or other within the next 10 years.

withabix

I've had hayfever since i was born.

I am now 36 and I have started to suffer less and less every year recently.

I don't beleive more kids get hayfever than used to. More kids nowsuffer from the effects of passive smoking in my opinion.

gromituk

JWhite wrote:

Didn't they stop giving cows antibiotics because they said it was increasing people's resilience to them when given by a doctor.

It increases bacterias' resistance to antibiotics. Overdosing with antibiotics happens with poultry farming too, and with people - who are fed the things by the doctor when they have a cold, which is a virus - unaffected by antibiotics. A more extreme case of this is in hospitals - MRSA anyone?

It's called evolution (you know, the thing they don't teach in American schools). An organism will evolve in order to survive in a changing environment.

If the organism has a short lifecycle, like a bacterium, it will evolve more quickly. This is one reason why the race to develop new medicines is so difficult to keep ahead in.

If it is exposed to the changed environment often, it will be more likely to evolve. This is why you should limit the use of antibiotics.

If the environment changes slowly, it will have more chance of adapting. This is why you must always finish a course of antibiotics. If not, their concentration might not be high enough to kill some bacteria which may tolerate them a little better than others. This will result in an evolutionary step towards an antibiotic-resistant bacterial strain.

ping_2

if you go into boots at the mo they have lots of these drugs on 3 for 2 at the mo e.g. GALPHARM'S Ceterizine(Zirtek) or Loterazine(clarytyn) are 99pence. Got 3 packets for £1.98 today

rowantoad

I'm pretty sure it is increasing, or at least more common now than say 20 years ago. Also look at all the adverts on TV and the shelf space in the chemists.

Mines better than it was also, a benedril gets rid of the worst of it pretty quick, but even though they say non drowsy they make me sleepy. It's just amazing that they don't really know what causes it. I don't think people can always have suffered from it, it would be impossible to help bring in the hay or whatever in this country.

meggyloo

This is something that i could really do with right now

Leodogger

Asthma is definitely on the increase if you listen to the telly and read the newspapers, especially amongst kids. Eczema and hayfever are sister complaints and so all can get passed on through families anyway. My grandmother had asthma but nothing else and my grandfather had none. My mother had none of them yet two children out of six developed asthma, two developed eczema, I had the hayfever, my brother who had nothing had two sons and both had asthma in their childhood, my son and daughter both suffer with eczema, my son's children, boy and girl both had baby eczema but are free from it now. My husband has nothing like that. My one sister who had nothing and neither had her husband had a son who had eczema and asthma. Makes you wonder where it all came from doesn't it?

gromituk

Antibacterial hand washes, probably!!!

37highlander

Interesting to read the various ideas why hayfever is affecting more ppl these days. I watched a very good article on daytime tv a few months ago (Dr Rosemary Leonard was the guest) and she said its due to the 'cleaner' environment we live in. You get Hepa filters for your hoover, multi filtered air con systems in cars & offices and lower polluting vehicles (although there are more than ever!). Our bodies immune systems which spent more time dealing with day to day bugs & viruses etc are now tuned to a lower level of (previously unnoticed) attackers e.g pollen, which the body now wants to try to counteract with lovely sneezing, running nose & sore eyes via the bodies histamine response. Early season hayfever (Apr May) is often caused by birch bark spores (which i got affected by this year). So maybe we should let our kids pick up & eat that lollie off the floor or eat that yummy soil and mud so their bodies are kept busy dealing with the usual bugs :T !!

digp

boots are doing generic hayfever tabs at 99p.

they are probably buying them for about 20p each!