Hayfever or a summer cold?

[tortoise]

Hi all :D

Have woken up today with a blocked and runny nose and itchy eyes. I keep sneezing too.

Do you think I have hayfever (never had it before to my knowledge) or a summer cold?

Sometimes when the rape seed is out and the grass gets cut I get itchy eyes and a tickly nose. Some people say it is hayfever, but others say no it's not. :unsure:

Advice please!!!!!! :D

[mazza]

Aw yuk :(

Sounds like an allergy just cos of the itchy eyes thing...try an antihistamine - I have noticed that you can get them very cheap this year :thumbs: . The pollen count is very high at the moment too...

However, I have definitely got a cold and it is hideous - it's lingering for ages and my ears are blocked, lots of gunk in my throat etc etc. So perhaps if you have blocked ears too, it is a cold..

maybe it's a bit of both!! :bigeyes:

[StoneHenge]

I never had hayfever in my life until 3 years ago and then suddenly I started suffering with it. Lots of sneezing, itchy eys etc, so you could wlel have an allergy to something that might be potent this time of year, grass, flowers, tree pollen.

Hope you don't feel too rough. I have seen people here with severe hayfever and they look like they have the flu.

Take it easy!

[phantos02]

T - sounds like hayfever to me. I never got it until my early 20s. Try an antihistamine, it can't hurt (I buy tesco's own brand it's about 99p, much cheaper than all the brand names).



The pollen seems to be really high in Kent at the mo. I take an antihistamine every morning but for the last week I have still been sneezing throughout the day. On Tuesday I had to have an emergency opticians appointment because my eye was so dry my contact lense had literally welded itself to the front of my eye and wouldn't budge!! :cry:

[StoneHenge]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(phantos02 @ 21st July 2006 - 12:23 PM) 181654</div>
On Tuesday I had to have an emergency opticians appointment because my eye was so dry my contact lense had literally welded itself to the front of my eye and wouldn't budge!! :cry:
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Ouch! Hope it's ok now phantos?

[phantos02]

Yeah it's fine now. I put the lenses in before I left the hosue as normal but the left one just kept watering and I couldn't see out of it. The right eye was quite foggy too. By coincidence I had a lunchtime checkup booked anyway but I rang them about 10am and they said to come straight down and they would see me straight away. After a whole bottle of saline solution and much prodding and poking it finally came off. The chap said it had made a mark on my eye where it had been so tight, but that it would heal within a couple of days. They've given me a different lense to try now which are bigger and shouldn't dry out as much.



Even though my eye was watering like mad he still put it down to 'dryness' caused by hayfever which I thought was a bit odd but these new lenses seem to be fine.

[Milano]

i only started suffering from hayfever a few years ago and even then it was very mild and i only seemed to be affected by tree blossom in spring, was fine in summer. This year my nose is constantly bunged up and my eyes are sore (eyes never been affected before), i'm hoping its due to extremely high pollen rather than a sign my hayfever is getting worse, it certainly sounds like exactly what your suffering from.

[Miss Understood]

Tortoise,

It's more than likely an allergic reaction. The weather conditions have been so unusual this last week or so that our bodies defences are going into over drive. There's no wind to blow away the pollen and also no wind to blow away the pollutants like exhaust fumes. The extremely high temperatures exacerbate these conditions.

I've been snotty, sneezy and scratching my eyes this whole week off and on. Some mornings I've woken up and my eyes are so swollen it looks like I've been crying all night!

But, I know things will be back to normal once the weather normalises itself

[phantos02]

Tortoise - are you feeling any better? Did you try the antihistamine?

Also sorry to hijack your thread T, but Yi Win - are your night and day lenses expensive? the new ones they have given me are Bausch and Lomb monthly ones but they have to be taken out and cleaned at night. I must admit I am bit new to this contact lens lark, I've only been trying them out for the last couple of months. I find the left one much harder to keep clean than the right - perhaps that eye produces more protein. Presumably your night and day ones don't attract deposits like normal lenses?

[tortoise]

HI

Thanks all of you.

Phantos - Hope u are ok.

Think I do have a bit of both. I have a sore throat as well now. Eyes still itchy.

Bought some tablets from Aldi's for 69p!!!! They seem to be helping. Have also tried to stay inside as much as possible.

:D

[smoo22]

Hope they work for you tortoise - I know how miserable rape seed can be!
Although I've never had hayfever, that stuff does make my eyes itch and I can almost taste it in the back of my throat. What's worse is that the GM modified varieties that they grow are far worse than the normal kind, but they are not allowed to tell us which is which, because protesters will go and burn out the GM stuff :banghead:
I know a few people in my family who don't have any kind of hayfever but can tell if the local rapeseed is GM or not by the reaction they have :cry: horrid stuff :angry:

Cheer yourself up with a good long aromatherapy session and a nice bottle, or two... :wine: !!

[c1rcle]

I never used to suffer from hayfever until a few years ago then like you I woke up one morning with all the symptoms, anti-hystamines are the way to go although smoo's idea is a very close second :D

[phantos02]

Tortoise even if it is a cold, the antihistamine will help as it will stop your sinuses reacting so badly and producing lots of mucus (trust me I know because I used to get sinusitis a lot when I was a teenager).

Remember your vit C x x

[fleur]

Have you tryed a little bit of vaseline up your nose this stops the pollen. If you buy antihistamines go for the shop brand, which are normally cheaper if you read whats in them they are basically all the same just packaged and priced different.