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Do You Suffer From Miserable Spring and Summer Seasons and Hay Fever?
Last week, the tree pollen count was recorded as being high in London according to the weather forecast.
Luckily I rarely suffer from hay fever - I grew-up in the countryside and only have some mild symptoms sometimes to tree and grass pollen, but after having my large sash-cord windows kept wide open all day during the warm and sunny spring days last week (with a lot of trees around me,) I found my nose itching and my nose kept running and I was getting through numerous packets of tissues as I kept blowing my nose and my skin suddenly felt a bit itchy, along with having some mild headaches, and I was sneezing an awful lot and had watery and itchy eyes, nose and throat for several days.... I thought I was getting a flu.
I woke-up a few nights ago and couldn't sleep as I was rubbing my itchy nose so much that I made it slighty red and my eyes were watering - until I took an antihistamine for hay fever and allergic reactions. It made me feel drowsy though but it alleviated the symptoms.
I told a friend of mine who I've not seen for over a month on the other side of London the other evening and he said to me that he's been having the exact same symptoms with headaches, sneezing, and a constant runny nose - he thinks he has a flu coming-on. He also grew-up in the countryside and travels to work in areas of the countryside every week without any problems and he said he rarely has hay fever.
Then yesterday a female friend of mine visited who I'd not seen for two weeks, and she said to me that she's also been experiencing the exact same symptoms recently too - yet she said she rarely suffers from hay fever.
The last time I remember ever suffering from a bad case of hay fever (prior to last week) was in my secondary school while I was sitting on a school playing field with a group of other female teenage schoolgirls during a relaxing summer lunchbreak and we were sharing and eating a school picnic together outside one summer. A man was driving up-and-down the school playing field and he was cutting the grass with a mowing-machine. When he drove closer to where we were sitting with his grass-cutting vehicle, our eyes all started streaming with tears (it felt like someone had just cut an onion open directly underneath our eyes,) and we were sneezing and finding it difficult to see clearly as our eyes were watering so much, and I remember the group of school pupils that I was sitting with all stood-up and we left the field.
The various types of hay fever and its symptoms: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Hay-fev...roduction.aspx
There was also a hay fever outbreak two years ago in London 2015 which was recorded as the worst outbreak of hay fever in the country: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/healt...-10363437.html
I'm experiencing some milder symptoms of hay fever at the moment (despite keeping my windows closed today,) and I have a mild headache and a slightly itchy nose and eyes that are watering a bit, (the pollen count is recorded as being high again today.) I felt much better yesterday though when the pollen count went down to 'moderate' compared to my symptoms last week and over the weekend, and two of my friends who rarely get hay fever and who had the exact same symptoms both said they felt better yesterday.
(Excuse me, I'm going to sneeze again.)
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Originally Posted by Jackson
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