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[Cinnamon]

Can someone advise on a product I can try for my 15 year old daughter,who is suffering horribly.

She has had Hayfever for a few years and has always been treated successfully with prescription Citirizine,but this year it is not working at all.

We can't get a quick doctors appointment, so I thought I would pick something up from Boots to try.

Its awful for her. ...she can't breath properly and is also gagging with all the muck on her throat. She I'd off school today,and that is not something I do lightly.

 

Any recommendations would be great.

[Egluntyne]

I get on well with Beconase.

 

A colleague was extolling the virtues of **these** recently.

[Chickvic]

I use loratadine (Asda £2 for 30) I have changed from cetirizine this year as well as it doesn't seem to help. I'm still suffering but it seems to come in fits and starts rather than all the time. Have you tried an air purifier for her bedroom? We have one and it does make a difference overnight and I don't get up feeling so tight chested - asthma and hayfever are a nightmare for me at the moment

[Snowy]

The beconase is great but they don't recommend it for under 18s But would be worth checking with the pharmacist) My son started it this year and it's improved his hayfever enormously.

Could also try that balm that you apply round the nostrils that traps the pollen (haybalm? - can't remember it's name, but vaseline would probably work just as well!)

Otherwise it's sunglasses and keeping indoors as much as possible

[abwsco]

Have you tried the New Era hayfever remedy. Works wonders for me.

[Charlottechicken]

I just use good old piriton, works fine for me and I have never suffered from drowsyness.

[Christian]

Triludan/triludan forte

Claratyn (worked really well for me for years, but stopped working a couple of years ago).

Citrizine aka Zirtek is what I now use.

Piriton knocks me out like a Rhino tranquiliser.

 

Beconase is good, but needs regular use as I think it is a steroid?

Try vaseline inside the nose to trap pollen.

 

http://www.chemist-4-u.com or http://www.pharmacyfirst.co.uk/

 

Both do mail order with ridiculously low prices for the tablets. 5p for 30 plus £2.95 for P&P, but you can order lots of boxes for the P&P.

 

This is also useful -

 

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/cheap-hayfever-remedies

[ClaireG]

I've sufferd slightly before but this year have full blown hayfever as does DS. We're using Loratidine tablets and i'm also using Sodium Cromoglicate eye drops.

[migsy]

I use Beconase. I used to get it prescribed for me when I was a teenager but that was a very long time ago so perhaps guidelines have changed. I also use Optrex Allegy eye drops or Otravine Antistin eye drops - they are both great. Any anti-histamine tablets make me feel ill so I never take them.

[SarahJo]

ES has Loratidine liquid and beconase nasal spray - he is 10. The hayfever has been bad this year as its been soooo dry (and windy today ).

 

Beconase is a steroid and you cannot have it over the counter for under 18s, so she would need a prescription.

 

Hope you get it sorted

 

Oh - I also find Olbas oil (usually used for colds) helps ES to sleep at night if he is particularly bad - a few drops on the pillow, or a tissue

[Cinnamon]

Thanks all.

I am going to try her on Benadryl ,as she had one of her boyfriends the other day & says it helped.

 

have also found out that her nasal spray is out of date,so I have renewed that prescription.

 

Christian,that was very interesting,thanks.

If the Benadryl work then maybe the Doctor will prescribe it for her & if not then I will ask about the Beconase

 

There is something very different about her symptoms & the severity of it this year

[chickencam]

When my ED suddenly started with awful hayfever last summer, I rang the doctors and the nurse practitioner at our surgery made out a precription for her which we were just able to collect, without her seeing the Dr. She has never actually seen the doctor with her hayfever, we have just had repeat prescriptions since, so that may be worth a try.

 

She has Fexofenadine tablets and a Flixonase nasal spray and they have helped a lot, she also has an ioniser in her room which she seems to think helps.

 

My youngest who is 11 was prescribed Beconase, because she had a persistant cough and blocked ears which were left over from a heavy cold. The nasal sprays help with clearing both the nose and the ears, if she is really bad she will need tablets and a spray.

[scarlettohara]

Benadryl works for me, however I am growing out of it now after 30 years A spoonful a day of local honey is supposed to work but if it is really bad all that used to work for me for going to bed with all windows and curtains closed

[Tiggy]

if the antihistmine is not helping its worth having a word with your nurse practitioner at the surgery, you dont really need to see a GP unless its really terrible, a combination of antihistamine nasal spray & eye drops normally does the trick. I have very occassionally needed to give steroid tabs during hayfever season when hayfever is so bad nothing is helping and it the mmiddle of exams. normally the peak of the symptoms depends on what you are allergic to, be it grass tree pollen spring floweretc , some unfortunate souls are allergic all the way through. Most people settle once that peak passess

[migsy]

I'm allergic to honey. My mouth, lips and throat get itchy and hot if I eat it and I get a chesty cough immediately afterwards too. Obviously I avoid it and only eat it by accident! However, I assumed it was linked to my hay fever so I'm always curious about the claim that honey can desensitize pollen allergy. Do any other hay fever suffers out there have a honey allergy?

[TAJ]

Claratyn (worked really well for me for years, but stopped working a couple of years ago).

 

 

I use Neo Claratyn - which is a perscription only version of Claratyn, with less side effects and I find it very good - have used it for years now.

 

Tracy

[The Dogmother]

Mine is far worse than usual this year too, I have gone from using the herbal one which normally works to using Sainsbury's own, they contain Cetirizine Hydrochloride and work well, but make my nose, eyes and skin feel a bit dry.

[Guest]

Sorry I'm not very good on the names of medication, but in the past I have used some stronger prescription medication which was quite expensive and it had almost no effect whatsoever.

 

I now use just use own brand hay fever/allergy relief available from most large supermarkets and for me they seem to work better than any of the other named brands they sell.

 

Remember different antihistamines act differently on different people so what may be effective for someone, may have little to no effect on someone else so it's basically trial and error until you find one that works for you.

[TAJ]

Sorry I'm not very good on the names of medication, but in the past I have used some stronger prescription medication which was quite expensive and it had almost no effect whatsoever.

 

Speaking to my chemist the perscription one I take (Neo Clarityn) is a more purified form of the counter version (Clarityn), apparently it is the chemicals that causes the side effects that has been purified out of it, not that the actual active ingredient is particularly stronger - though I assume some people can take more of it than the counter version. I had this conversation with him about 2 years ago when I ran out as Neo-Clarityn (perscription version) and tried Clarityn instead - it works on me but leaves me feeling so sleepy and druged that I am not fit for anything! As has been said above it is a case of trial and error - but do not think the perscription versions are just a stronger dose this is not the case with Clarityn/Neo-Clarityn.

 

Tracy

[BarbaraJ]

I was given Fexofenadine 2 years ago with Steroids when i had an allregic reaction to an unknown something twice and anded up in A&E. I'm surprised they gave that without even seeing someone! have put in another prescription to get some more as the over the counter tabs do little when mine kicks in!

 

This year is definatly odd as i had no symptoms whatsoever until last week and they came on like a bull in a china shop and i usually start any time from April very strange.

I have to sleep with the bedroom windows shut and a fan on or i get hardly any sleep, i'm ok midday usually but morns are bad and evenings awful, i hate it ! thought maybe i was stopping getting it this year after 40+ miserable summers of it

[The Dogmother]

I only usually get it much earlier - tree pollen time, but I had it then, and again just now.

[Old Speckled Hen]

I just use good old piriton, works fine for me and I have never suffered from drowsyness.

I don't normally get bothered by hayfever but have been showing some symptoms in the last few days so popped a piriton this morning. I am still walking around like a sleep deprived wobbly Zombie.... never again awful stuff

[Jools]

Anti-histamines have that effect on me too OSH, but sometimes that's a blessing when the hayfever is so bad! I don't use them now, only this and it works a treat.

 

Someone said that reflexology worked for them on the last hayfever thread so I wonder if acupuncture might work too.

[Chickvic]

I am now using this. It has just finished it's first 3 minute cycle and will report back in a few days to let you know if there is any improvement My DH finds it quite amusing!

[Charlottechicken]

I just use good old piriton, works fine for me and I have never suffered from drowsyness.

I don't normally get bothered by hayfever but have been showing some symptoms in the last few days so popped a piriton this morning. I am still walking around like a sleep deprived wobbly Zombie.... never again awful stuff

 

I've taken them since I was 6 or 7 and they have never made me drowsy Funny how people react differently to drugs. I was recently in hospital with a pca attached, I was told the morphine made you feel funny but it had no effect on me whatsoever, much to my disappointment