Hay fever. At this time of year?
 

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?

Michael Bell

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Hay fever. At this time of year?
 

On 18/10/2011 17:51, Martin wrote:
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:43:42 +0100, 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

http://www.independent.co.uk/environ...e-2372038.html
Newcastle is one of the most common town names.Which one is yours?

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Residing on low ground in North Staffordshire

Hay fever. At this time of year?
 

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

Hay fever. At this time of year?
 

In message
Moonraker wrote:

On 18/10/2011 17:51, Martin wrote:
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:43:42 +0100, 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

http://www.independent.co.uk/environ...the-green-hayf
ever-machine-2372038.html

Ragweed is not yet established in Britain and certainly not in
Northern England, where there is the one and only NEWCASTLE - ON -
TYNE.

Newcastle is one of the most common town names.Which one is yours?



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Hay fever. At this time of year?
 

In article ,
Martin wrote:
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:47:26 +0100, Michael Bell
wrote:

Ragweed is not yet established in Britain and certainly not in
Northern England, where there is the one and only NEWCASTLE - ON -
TYNE.

oddly there is only one Newcastle under Lyme too :-)
Navigation system route planners tend to always pick the wrong
Newcastle.

Posted within spitting distance of the real Newcastle

Which? Monmouthshire or Shropshire?


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Hay fever. At this time of year?
 

In message
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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Try buying a rail ticket to Clapham!

Apparently the village now needs to be called Claphamnorthyorkshire, otherwise they'll try to charge you £200 and send you to some place south of London.

I know that Citirizine is drug for anti allergy. Are you allergic to cold weather? You should stay on a tropical weather country...

I have suffered autumn hayfever, albeit not in Britain. In Britain, I sometimes get a bit of spring hayfever from tree-pollen, depending upon the weather that year, but that's all. The only other incidents have been abroad, and in the local autumn. The very worst I have ever had was one late October in Greece. I had no problem when on low ground among the cultivated fields, I had no problem when on very high ground in the pine forests. But at intermediate altitudes in the mediterranean shrublands, I was streaming. I don't know what it could have been as there was very little in flower. I have also been to Greece a couple of times in spring, and had no problem. I had a problem bad enough to be taking tablets in Patagonia in the local early autumn period (March). That was in the humid climates of the west coast - inland in the semi-arid shrublands it didn't seem to be a problem. Funny how things vary.

So, yes, there can be stuff in the air in autumn to bother people, depending upon weather and vegetation.