On 2009-05-11 07:08:35 +0100, Michael Bell said:

I keep log of my health and looking back through it I only realised
last year that I get a massive attack of sneezing and runny nose and
feeling generally unwell each year about the 3rd weekend of May. My
doctor recognised this as hay fever and prescribed Cetirizine which
cured it. (Dose this prove the diagnosis?)

Yesterday evening I got the first attack of what felt like the same,
but it has gone this morning. What plants and their pollen are the
possible causes?

Michael Bell

PS. I live in Newcastle on tyne, and this hay fever continues to my
yearly visit to Swaledale.

I suffered my first ever attack of hay fever last year. With me,
there's a very slight sore throat sometimes, too. But the streaming
eyes and general feeling I'm about to get a cold that never
materialises, seem to be the indications pollen's about. According to
my stepson when I said I was fed up with itchy eyes and so forth, there
is a lot of oak pollen about now. And a couple of weeks ago our pine
tree, Pinus patula, was giving off great clouds of pollen whenever
anyone brushed past it. That was about the time my eyes started itching
etc.
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