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Forum: General Chat 25-07-2013, 21:44

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever Gloss paint fumes (kind gesture :rolleyes: by new landlady who spruced up paintwork recently) triggered another bout of serious breathlessness. I have another doc visit today and am now on inhaled...

Forum: General Chat 03-07-2013, 13:50

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever I have reported side effects to recent prescription meds using the 'yellow card' facility here - Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency...

Forum: General Chat 20-06-2013, 07:53

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever I am not asthmatic so my problem is not as severe as yours. To reach age 70 and only need one regular prescription is an achievement, judging by the carrier bags full that I have seen delivered to...

Forum: General Chat 19-06-2013, 18:09

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever Spiriva is a small blue pill that you crush into a powder using a special gadget, and inhale https://www.spiriva.com/ tiotropium bromide inhalation powder I would prefer a red pill but beggars...

Forum: General Chat 19-06-2013, 12:24

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever I have had to do what I hoped I would never need to do - I have had a doc's home visit and will be taking prescription meds.:( The birch pollen allergy caused a COPD exacerbation which immobilised...

Forum: General Chat 14-06-2013, 13:05

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever Because I have been like this two successive years and only when the trees were pollinating. It is easy to know when they are because the 'catkins' are rust coloured and the whole plantation has the...

Forum: General Chat 14-06-2013, 09:20

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever This birch pollen allergy really makes life complicated! Birch Pollen Allergy: List of Foods to Avoid or Limit (http://www.healwithfood.org/allergicrhinitis/birch-pollen-foods-avoid-list.php) ...

Forum: General Chat 07-06-2013, 20:15

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever I have avidly web researched the topic. My severe problem was caused by 'sheer density' and 'close proximity' to those trees. Airborn pollen travels hundreds of miles, but it is most concentrated at...

Forum: General Chat 07-06-2013, 18:00

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever Only for two or three weeks, BUT some trees start early, and some later - The have been 'at it ' since the end of April and the signs of that 'rusty appearance' are just on the point of disappearing...

Forum: General Chat 07-06-2013, 17:51

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever I do have some masks with a carbon filter built in. I defy anybody to wear one 24 hours a day, which is what I would need to do. Birch pollen is the finest of all tree pollens and needs Hepa filters...

Forum: General Chat 07-06-2013, 12:19

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever Even though I said that I would just move and not do anything else, I just couldn't resist writing to LCC Forestry and Woodland Management to make them aware of the problem they have created. I don't...

Forum: General Chat 07-06-2013, 11:41

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever The woman hospitalised in New Zealand, which was a link few posts ago, died after a few weeks. Page 2 of this pdf file http://www.mapua.gen.nz/CNaug07.pdf

Forum: General Chat 07-06-2013, 10:12

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever This is an old streetview pic from several years ago. The trees are bigger now....

Forum: General Chat 07-06-2013, 00:11

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever I have had a hard time breathing for several weeks now - it has been like having an everlasting cold which sometimes escalated to flu. The 50 or more birch trees opposite my flat have been pumping...

Forum: General Chat 24-05-2012, 18:27

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever Trees produce pollen - that is the current problem. I have read a fair bit about birch tree pollen recently. High pollen years and low pollen years alternate - we are on a 'high' this year.

Forum: General Chat 23-05-2012, 17:52

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever Just to compound the misery of runny nose and itchy eyes, I have a shower (have no bath) which malfunctions in hot weather :( The water pipe which feeds my shower runs through the loft, and as the...

Forum: General Chat 23-05-2012, 12:53

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever Their trees are different - no birch, hawthorn etc

Forum: General Chat 23-05-2012, 10:51

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever The trees at the back don't look as though they are birch, so I am taking the risk of opening my windows at the back, and keeping front windows closed. Opening windows to change the air is...

Forum: General Chat 23-05-2012, 10:02

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever The red light phototherapy works by desensitising the lining of your nose. It doesn't work for everybody, but a double blind clinical trial showed a reasonably high percentage success rate. ...

Forum: General Chat 22-05-2012, 14:26

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever On top of all the petrochemical nasties I avoid breathing in:rolleyes:, I now have rhinitis (streaming nose, itchy eyes and throat), and think it is likely to be birch tree pollen from the small...

Forum: General Chat 29-06-2008, 10:05

Replies: 73 Hay Fever Views: 3,319 Posted By MargaretR Re: Hay Fever I found this on the web It is expensive, but the Lloyds pharmacy version mentioned will be cheaper http://www.anhealth.co.uk/site_html/press_medinose.html I sometimes get vasomotor rhinitis -...

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