[West Ender]

Nik has been using hers for 2 months now - the same one, Lloyds. It helps but she's still quite bad. Her symptoms, from April to July, really are very bad and she hasn't been able to enjoy early Summer since she was 10 years old.

Before that she had no sign of hay fever. It came on one evening when she was playing with friends in the fields opposite our house. I went to call her in for bed and at first I thought she had been punched in the face as her eyes were like tomatoes and her nose was swollen. No, it was just pollen and since then it's been an annual thing. It doesn't help that a lot of oil seed rape is grown round here (though not nearer to us than a mile) and it's a killer-diller for allergy sufferers.