Oh the joys of having Hay Fever!
Are you or your scout a sufferer? Everyone cheers up as soon as the weather gets warmer. Everyone except people who suffer from Hay fever, knowing that the moment they wake up they will be constantly sneezing for the next few months.
Oh the joys of suffering with Hay Fever!
Tree pollen starts the season off around March, grass pollen kicks in around May and certain weeds can affect hay fever till around September time.
The sneezing: All the time sneezing from the moment you wake up in the morning until the time you go to bed. All the time achoo achoo aaaaachooo!
Constantly telling people: “No, you don’t have a cold
Wanting to spend the day outside in the wonderful sunshine: But getting so annoyed of sneezing and itchy eyes, that you then spend the whole day inside feeling depressed and sorry for yourself whilst watching the kids and family playing in the garden.
Constant painful itchy Eyes: This is generally the most painful thing with suffering from hay fever. The nonstop itchy eyes and then when you put a cold flannel over them ooooooooh my! Feels like heaven.
But it’s not just the eyes that itch: The nose twitches, the neck basically the whole. body can get itchy!
Devil eyes: Having Red swollen eyes and no that’s not a lack of sleep!
do you actually love flowers?: The answer is yes! We go out and spend £100s every year making the back garden looking lovely. Cutting the grass means you are going to pay for it later with the sneezing and itchy eyes. So why bother?
The Struggle with family picnics: It’s great to spend time outside during the spring and summer. And then someone suggests “let’s have a picnic”. It’s going to be a lovely couple of hours sitting on the picnic rug but then you know you are going to spend hours sneezing
Always having to carry a packet of tissues with you: The nonstop blowing of your nose turns you into a summer version of Rudolph the Red nose reindeer.
Spending a fortune on hay fever medicine: Knowing it doesn’t really have any effect on stopping the sneezing and itchy eyes, it’s more of a placebo effect.
If this is you, here are some little tips to help you along through these tough months.
Dr Ranj Singh from ITV’s This Morning suggests applying Vaseline under the nose. Lube up the inside your nose to block pollen from entering.
Garlic also has anti histamine properties.
Drink chamomile tea – It is claimed that drinking a cup of Chamomile tea will help relieve Hay fever due to the flower having has Anti Histamine properties.
Avoid Dairy and also tomatoes as these can stimulate your glands.
Eat local honey. Studies have shown that local honey as a healing agent and is better than over-the-counter remedies
for hay fever.
Eat chilli peppers. Because peppers contain capsaicin which, when consumed, has the ability to reduce congestion by opening up our nasal passages.
Lemons, oranges and also grapefruit is rumored to help with hay fever due to these fruits containing natural antihistamines.
Apparently Acupuncture can be used to deal with Hay Fever- Worth a try?
Do you have any ways of beating Hayfever rather than taking daily medicines?
Do you have any tips/ Old wives tales on dealing with Hay fever?
Please feel free to share in the comments.
The NHS guide to dealing with Hay fever
Adapted from thebigmaninthewoods
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