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I think I'll steer well clear of both, just to be sure!

Last year the only thing that combatted my hay fever was a trusty nasel spray. Mine is mainly centered on my nose so it makes sense really. The tablets did sod all. Though, this year pollen doesn't seem to be bothering me but tidying my room yesterday the duct had me sneezing for hours!

I had the desensitizing injections a few years ago, but recently my hay fever seems to be more bearable.

However, this year I have moved from the UK to Luxembourg, and the different sorts of pollen here seems to be getting to me. I have just run out of Piriton, and now need to get soemthing similar from the local chemist. Any other European researchers know what the equivalent is?

One non-drug method is to eat local honey, as that gets your body attuned to the local pollens. And even if it doesnt work, it's a heck of a lot nicer than nettle tea or haemorroid cream!

Hmm, honey...

That sounds pretty sensible actually, if a little slow...

i like the sound of that!

It's got to be as local as you can get - if you can find someone near you with a bee hive who sells it - great!

two of the people i work with at my other job make honey, but they dont sell it as they dont make enough.....

I find Piriton perfect. Tones down the sneezing to managable levels, stops the eyes itching and I don't get drowsy. I get the feeling from this thread that there is no one solution to hayfever, which there ought to be. Think I might write to the EU and demand standardisation of people so that we can all take the same medicines.

You don't get drowsy from Piriton? Wow, you lucky

Nah, I'm never awake in the first place.

That could explain it...

I had injections for hayfever many years ago, when I was still a young Gosho They worked pretty well... either that or I just grew out of it. I went for a skin test, found out what I was allergic to, then had to have a series of weekly injections (I think there were 8 or 9) each year before the hayfever season started. There was some deal whereby I was meant to have them for 5 years, then have two years without them, then for four more years, then a year off, then three years, etc. I never finished the whole course, which would have taken something like 15 years, but my hayfever went away, and I've never been bothered by it to the extent I used to be. I wish I could remember the name of the drug... it wasn't Piriton. That was the name of the anti-hystemines the doc used to give me each year before I had the injections.