Hayfever ....

[dransy]

With so many people now suffering from hayfever , shouldnt the nhs find something that cures it? Like an injection with the missing cells that causes it or something of the like?

ve had it all my life but this year its really bad , and non of the tablets ever really work and its a pain in the arse?

Anyone here suffer from it?
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[st3v3]

There's waaay too many different types of hayfever to be dealt with specifically, I don't have the usual types, but have only ever once suffered the related symptoms, as I went by a field in cornwall(it wasn't a corn field wise guys)
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[Blackwolf]

i only get it mildly and when there is a lot of pollen in the air, i get this really annoying itch in the sinus next to the eye... its really annoying, i canf eel it coming on now
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[JonB]

In the Independent there was a story saying that they have just found a pill that actually fights the cause of hayfever rather than symptoms.

Problem is, you need to take 1 pill a day for 3 years for it to complete cure it.

Apparently it would cost £250 per person per year. So that is £750.

There are 10 million hayfever sufferers inc me.

750 x 10,000,000 = £7,500,000,000

That's a lot of money, obviously would have to be all tax payer money.

Another way the NHS could look at it though is that if they did this in the short term, in the long term they'd spend less on treatments for symptoms.

If you have serious enough hayfever you can get a steroid injection, however only in the most extreme of cases.

For me, I only get hayfever from late April til late July, so it doesn't affect me that much. Although at the moment my hayfever has been terrible.
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[dransy]

Well with me ive had it all my life , if i go threw a field in summer with long straw kind of grass all my skinn bubbles up like ive been bit by fleas everywhere so i dont really go in fields. Even now im just sat in the house and my nose is terrible it just runs constantly and i cant breathe threw it.

And if i rub my eyes i get gunge coming outta them , ive tried most of the tablets on the market and when i was a kid the ones the doctors gave me never really did anything at all
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[Trixie]

Apart from the damn wasps, my hayfever is the only bad thing about summer for me. Benadryl (the normal tablets, not one a day) works well for me, and is cheap to get a load on prescription

The strange thing is, it's not too bad whilst I'm riding the bike, I'm guessing that's because the wind is blowing a lot of the pollen away. Just after I've got off the bike, though, that's when I start big time - I totally turn into the Queen of Snot - not a pretty site!!

Saying that, it's gotten better now I'm in the Isle of Man, and I'm finding I only need tablets when the pollen count is really high. When I was in Reading it was really bad all the time.
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[chuuds]

I too have suffered from it all my life. I dont remember ever enjoying a summer.
I have tried probably all the medication you can get. Last year I tried nasal sprays, which gave me nose bleeds, now I get a nose bleed nearly every time I sneeze in summer.
I can recommend some pills that worked for me a couple of years ago, but they dont seem to be very effective now. Dont know if it is because my body has become immune to them or what. They are called Marshmallow pills, they are herbal and as far as I know, you can only get them from Holland and Barratt stores. They are quite expensive (£10 a pot, which last about a month), but if they still worked for me now I would still be buying them as they were a god send that year.
Hope this helps guys. I feel your pain.
Let me know if they do help anyone.

[Dragonfly]

I feel so sorry for one of my mates.

She suffers from hayfever and dust etc

Her nose is permantly blocked and her head is wreaked with it all the time she has to wash her cloths in 60 degrees washes and cant come into my conservatory as its full of flowers and my pets get to her also.

She has to go for an operation now to get a hot poker up her nose to unblock her sinus and none of the allergy treatments in the chemist are strong enough for her and they one they have perscribed her make her ill.


I dont envy hayfever sufferes i get a touch of it when doing the grass but i cant complain i hope they get some better treatments for you soon.
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[Trixie]

Jeez, that is bad. I get an allergy to dust and cats as well as the hayfever, but it's liveable with providing I dose myself up. Poor girl!
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[akaDAVE]

Strangely enough I only started suffering from hayfever when I was 21 years old.
I had moved location so maybe that had something to do with it but it got steadily worse for a few years.

Still I would rather have a few more months of summer with hayfever than winter anyday!

It can be unbearable, when your eyes so itchy you've rubbed them raw and your nose is producing a litre of snot every minute.

The worse I've had it was when I went to rural france at the end of june last year, i had asthmatic breathing problems which was quite scary.
The pills and eyedrops did nothing.

Still I think it's not seen as a serious enough condition to warrant the NHS paying to sort it.
I'll have a look myself though if that medication is proven to work then £250 a year doesn't seem bad value.
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[Andy C]

have it so bad this year, much worse than before.

even with tables from doctor im sneezing with lots of snot staying on my face, nice.

Wait for summer all year and now im like this
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[trevoriv]

I'd be happy paying £750 over 3 years to cure hayfever. Tree pollen hayfever, absolute nightmare.

Plus pet allergies and asthma. I proper raped and pillaged a village in a previous life to deserve this!
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[fenton]

My hayfever gets really bad about now, so much so it stops me working. Stops me breathing properly, swells up my eyes, gives me an itchy throat and worst of all, it gives me sneezing fits. I did have some eye drops but they tend to go out of date 2 weeks after you open the bottle so i didnt keep em for long. Now ive found cetrizine or something along them lines. Its a prescription tab but its not my prescription its my step bro's.

You only have to take it once a day and its stoped all my symptoms, apart from an occasional red eye. See if you can get it prescribed.

Fenton
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[Kickstart]

Hi

I first got it when I was about 8. Suffered it a fair amount until I was 20, then one summer used cold tar soap rather than one of the normal ones. Noticed that the "hay fever" had 95% disappeared. Still use that soap now to avoid most of it (even the so called hypoallergenic soaps make it worse). Presume that normal soaps are just aggravating a mild allergy.

All the best

Keith
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[gemma1675]

When I was a kid I got terrible hayfever and the doctor referred me for a course of treatment. It was a series of injections, one a week for 12 weeks, at the start of the year. It had to be repeated for three years. I did the first year and my hayfever became much less of a problem that summer.

However when I went back to the docs for the second year we were told that the treatment had been withdrawn and was no longer available to me. I was gutted because I really think this would have done the trick. I never did find out why it was withdrawn, but to this day my hayfever has never been so bad as it was before the course of injections...
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[Andy C]

So does anyone know of any long term treatments that you can buy?? I know it wont be cheap but i think i could spend a lot of money getting rid of hayfever as summer just isnt the same.

I think ill try kickstart's soap and hope for best. Is THIS it?
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