Its always lurking around the corner waiting to sneak up on my when the weather is nice and the vibe is good. Making your day a little less comfortable and wetting your eyes. Leaving you to snotter in your bed

The most annoying...Hay Fever!

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It started when I was around 26 years old. Before that, not a single sniff. And all of a sudden it was there, itchy eyes, sneezing, sinusses constantly filled. Annoying! It even lead to the point that I had my eyes lasered because of this, the whole spring time I was not able to wear my contacts then. I wrote about this a while ago, not regretting one single day of it. But back to the terror hay fever.

I did an allergy test and it turned out that I was allergic to grass, birch trees, and house dust mite.

Wellllllll, that pretty much covers the whole year ;)

• Birch Trees have their pollen peak (little parts that fly through the sky) from March to end of April in Europe
• Grass has their peak of pollen from beginning of May to end of June in Europe
• House dust mite is in every house when rooms are not properly ventilated (which is about the whole winter time, even when you have windows opened for ventilation.)

Basicly

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I have a reason to sneeze the whole year! Hooray!

The funny thing is, while living in the Caribbean, this allergy was non existent there! Grass would throw their pollen through out the whole year, since there are not really seasons and birch trees do not grow there. And because we had a open house there, house dust mite did not stand a chance. Awesomeness!

Every time when I would visit Europe which was often in spring time I would sneeze my butt off and when after that vacation I set foot in the Caribbean my nose would instantly open up.

Now, is there nothing you can do against hay fever?

Surely there is.

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At first you can fight symptoms. This would be using Xylomethazoline spray or Otrivin. Also making a nosespray yourself with just lukewarm water and adding table salt works. In the Caribbean I would just sniff some seawater, that is salt as hell!

After that they say that if you put some vaseline inside your nose the pollens stick to it so they can not fly into your nose. Hmmmm, I have never tried this? I just doesnt sound appealing!

Then you have the fair share of antihistamines (loratadine/reactine) that work quite good on allergies. The only side effect that there is, is that you get super sleepy from it! At least, I do. Any because I would have to take that medication alsmost throughout the whole year, I do not consider this an option.

Accupuncture

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I have tried this a couple of years back and I have good results with the running nose, but the itchy eyes remained. And honestly, it was also damn expensive because the health insurances did not really cover it. Bummmerrrr.

Gin Tonic

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Yesssss, this is the best news ever, that articles are coming up with why Gin and Tonics are helping on the histamine situation. Unfortunately, they also claim that wine/ beer and older cheeses are not too good on me. Crappers!

Eating woodlice

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WHAT!!! YUKK!! Rumours have been going on that eating woodlice would decrease the amount of hayfever symptoms because of their high proteine. Luckily also can be read that this will probably not work because the human body with have broken down the poteines before it has a chance to reach the bloodstream. Regardless: Im not trying it!

Taping

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Even seen this sport tape? It also seems to work on hay fever, they say No study has proven this as yet, but it also would have to do something with the immunosystem as where the accupuncture also works on.

So what to do?

I am not eating any woodlice and a gin tonic diet might also not be the smartest idea ;)

What do you do against you hayfever symptoms? I am really open to any kind of suggestion, because spring is not over as yet :)

Let me know!