Hayfever

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  • izthewiz
    izthewiz Posts: 154
    My missus used to suffer terribly from hayfever, but she has found that if you start taking anti-histamines before the season actually starts, one a day in the morning, and continue that through to Sept/Oct, she has much less trouble with it, only really being slightly affected in the evening if outdoors. She gets a prescription which gives a month's supply, so it costs her around £40 for the year. The trick I believe is to keep a certain level in your system, having also built up a pre-emptive level before things kick off.
    Good luck.
    The only bad view from the saddle is of the point of impact rising rapidly to meet you.
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    Eye drops and especially the nasal sprays for me - the tablets make only a little difference.

    I find that my symptoms disappear when cycling but then catch up when I stop - weird. Is it all in my mind?
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.
  • lukesaddy
    lukesaddy Posts: 64
    i hav heard that if you eat lots of honey from local farms, near to where you live and ride, it will improve your hayfever dramatically
    Please e-mail me if you know any good trails and jumps around the,
    middlesbrough,
    yarm,
    stockton,
    ingleby barwick
    great ayton,
    or the redcar area.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    mez24wmb wrote:
    Hi.
    With summer approaching once again I am faced with my yearly problem of how to manage my love of riding combined with crippling hayfever. Previous attempts have seen me consume box upon box of anti-hystamine tablets before, during and for a good couple of hours after riding I recently saw someone in town wearing an urban anti car emissions mask and wondered if the filter on one of these would be good enough to block out grass and tree pollen. if not, are there any masks available that are specifically designed for this problem[?]
    cheers
    Don't know if this has been mentioned in the (very long) thread... BUT.
    I've been told that locally produced honey can effectively immunize you to hayfever. Or so says my hypochondriac (spelling?) sister.
  • Old Dude
    Old Dude Posts: 6
    I suffered terrible hay fever for 20 years.

    Each year required a new drug as the previous year's didn't work anymore.

    Doctors for "general purpose 3 injection course" - didn't work

    Doctors for allergy test (trees, grass, flowers and nettles - basically the whole damn summer!) - 3 year course of 27 injections - didn't work.

    Martial arts instructor one day said I looked like c**p, go and see this bloke. Saw the bloke once, hayfever halved, saw him once again following year and got even better, saw him once again following year and got even better still. Didn't bother going back anymore as only minor irritation now. Bloke was a (don't laugh) homeopath. I'm not into 'quack' remedies, but I swear by this. Total outlay for all visits well under £100.

    If nothing else works, might be worth a try?

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