Damned Hay fever

[Melonfish]

Can't cycle at the moment. Eyes are streaming noise is running and my head feels like a balloon filled with sand, throat is raw too. Always when the elderflower blossoms... Anyone else suffer?
Most of the season I'm fine it's defo tree pollen that sets me off although I can react with grass pollen too
Sniff
pete

 

[bianchi1]

Speaking to a farmer in my local last night who suffers. He swears by a spoonful of local honey every day.

 

[Ningishzidda]

After eight million years of evolution, one would think Rhinitis ( allergy to plant pollen ) would have been eradicated naturally.
Who's gonna mate with a streaming snot-box?

 

[Rob3rt]

Heard the honey remedy mentioned quite a lot.

Personally, I just pop pills, huff an inhaler and get on with it. Before racing I do my warm up with Olbas oil on cotton wool up my nose to open up my airways, the result is rather messy, but at least I can breath.

 

[SquareDaff]

I used to - the last couple of years I've had a few sniffles and occassional dry throats but thankfully the eyes and streaming nose seem to have disappeared. Oddly I seem to have spent a lot more time outside in that period?!?!?

 

[Melonfish]

not been too bad last 5 years or so, last year also fine, turned june this year however and it feels like i have a cold, eyes itching and streaming and i'm damed if i can see straight.
not sure if there is anywhere local i can even get honey but i have heard it mentioned. there is a steroid injection you can get for allergic rhinitis so i'm wondering if this may help. don't like being off the bike just because of a few flowers...

 

[thegravestoneman]

I use three types of treatment, the tablets the nasal inhaler and the eye drops. It takes about a month for them to finally start working fully and I will have bad days (today for one) but I have to pre-plan the treatment or suffer. I did get the injections for a few years but then the locum doctor told me that you could only have them for two years then need a break or they might start causing (I think) kidney problems. Hay fever is a complete pain!!

 

[CopperCyclist]

I suffer badly, struggle to breath in bed at night when the pollen counts high. Strangely though, when I'm on the bike I'm fine. My nose streams, but it always does no matter what the weather as I get exercise induced rhinitis!

 

[Ningishzidda]

YOU'RE ALL ALIENS !!

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

I have chronic rhinitis and it's exacerbated by tree and grass pollens in spring and autumn but I've not been too bad this year so far. I really suffered on the York-Hull ride last year which I'm sure was down to the rapeseed that I saw in daylight on the train home and had a bad episode two weeks ago when I sneezed and snottered all the way from LMNH back to Plumstead. You'd think it would be better along the river but it seemed to be worse for some reason. I take up to four antihistamines a day and use Flixonase spray.

 

[Melonfish]

well i'm definitely thinking about flixonase at the moment, sinuses aren't too bad but its the rest of me that feels like i've been ran over.
currently on 20mg of citrizine hydrochloride a day but even considering upping it to 30.
I must say tho and i don't know if anyone gets this but if i go to a different part of the country i'm not so bad? what's with that?

 

[Deleted member 23692]

A spoon of honey + spoon of apple cider vinegar in a mug of hot water 1st thing in the morning sorts mine straight out.... and has done for far longer than I care to remember.

 

[Ningishzidda]

Have your DNA re-engineered. While they're at it, they can change the 'muscular strength' genes with those from a Chimp. Then you'll be seven times stronger and faster on a bicycle.

 

[MossCommuter]

not been too bad last 5 years or so, last year also fine, turned june this year however and it feels like i have a cold, eyes itching and streaming and i'm damed if i can see straight.
not sure if there is anywhere local i can even get honey but i have heard it mentioned. there is a steroid injection you can get for allergic rhinitis so i'm wondering if this may help. don't like being off the bike just because of a few flowers...

Here you go, Pete

http://www.bigbarn.co.uk/marketplac...rapiaries_warrington_WA5_honey_beeswax_polish

They set up stall in Birchwood Centre last Christmas

 

[Feastie]

Flixonase and eye drops work pretty well for me, plus tablets.

If the Cetirizine aren't working for you, have you tried any of the others? Different ones work better for different people and they all have slightly different compounds in with different mechanisms even though at the end of the day they are all anti-histamines. Look up the names to find out what's in them and try a few, I suggest. I've been through them all and Loratadine is the number one for me! You can buy it off-label as Loratadine or as Clarityn. Cetirizine and Chlorphenamine (Piriton) just don't do the job. I also find Fexofenadine works for me but it's not as easy to get hold of. Anyway they do all have different effects on different people (as evidenced by the fact some work for me and some don't!) so it's probably worth seeing if you can find a better one.