I used to get it rather bad and used to take a combination of antihistamines, eye drops and nasal sprays depending on how bad it got. Then I decided to put up with it one year without any medication. Haven't had much issues since then (touchwood)
You can. A friend used to keep bees for many years and got stung fairly often (compared to someone with less exposure to bees!). Then one day she was stung and went into anaphylactic shock - her 5 year old (at the time) son dialled 999 and got an ambulance there in time to save her but she no longer keeps bees and carries an EpiPen everywhere just in case.
Is everyone aware that some prescription only drugs for hayfever/rhinitis are now not prescription only and as such you wont be able to get them from the GP.
I used to take Beconase regularly for rhinitis (non seasonal, all year) for my food intolerance/allergy, now it's non-prescription so has to be purchased OTC, wouldn't mind but I have only recently become eligible for "free" prescriptions (over 60's perk) but now I will* have to pay for the stuff, which I have done for the last 20 years, so just when I thought I was going to get it free the Govt decide to withdraw that "perk".
* Or I would do but my GP has prescribed a different/stronger drug which is still only available on prescription, bless him.
Lucky I don't suffer with hay fever but I do have an allergy to ant stings. And I'm also allergic to honey and strawberries which can be annoying, especially the latter as even the smell of them brings me out in a ghastly rash.
I can sympathise with HF suffers though as I do suffer from LPR which brings on rhinitis and sinusitis.
Back in the early 80's at the age of 16 I developed hay fever. I sneezed continually and my eyes would be very red and stream also. After a couple of years of this my GP gave me a course of 3 injection in February, this went on for three years ànd I haven't had even so much as a sniffle even when the grass pollen count is very high.
I've always suffered quite badly which is less than ideal given my occupation (arable farmer). Over the past couple of years however I've been on immunosuppression medication for an unrelated medical condition and since then I've had virtually no problems with hayfever. Its a bit of a sledgehammer cure but it's done the trick (not quite sure I'd entirely recommend it out of choice mind you)
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