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Malcolm wrote:

On 18/10/2011 17:43, Martin wrote:
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:25:57 +0100, Michael Bell
wrote:

I have been feeling "under the weather" for a few weeks. It's not very
defineable, but one symptom is a ferociously itchy nose. And
Cetirizine, the treatment for hay fever, did a lot of good.

Of course it doesn't have to be POLLEN. Fungus spores might do just
the same. It stopped suddenly 2 days ago, and I feel fit again. I live
in Newcastle. Any comments?

on Tyne or under Lyme?

Caused by ragweed pollen according to a national newspaper
I have suffered from 'Hay Fever' since the age of 7 (now 65) Over the
years the stimulus has cahnged from grass pollen to tree pollen, but I
have an allergy which has developed to potatoes. If I peel potatoes the
?mist of juices? from peeling potatoes produces an athma like reaction
and if any juice reaches my eyes, there is a very irritant reaction.
This has only developed in the last few years (and no - it is not
because I want SWMBO to peel the potatoes instead of me). It seems to
me that allergies develop and change during life

Malcolm

" It seems to me that allergies develop and change during life".
Indeed. I only started to springtime hay fever in my 50s, it took me a
while to recognise it, then it faded away, to be replaced by this
autumn hay fever. Funny!

Michael Bell


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