Is ANYTHING safe for hay fever?!

[ravenAK]

Really suffering, what with that & the nausea. I know it sounds pathetic, but it's making me grumpy! & I've got to go to a picnic in a lovely leafy park this afternoon in an hour's time - absolutely dreading it.

I'm 8 weeks.

[Charlie999]

Sorry , nothing. I carried on with my eye-drops but that was it.

Miserable I know

sorry

[Charlie999]

Congratulations by the way

[LyraBelacqua]

You can use Beconase nasal spray. I've been told this by two different GPs during both my pregnancies.

[ravenAK]

Thanks!

Usually I'm an elephant strength piriton, washed down with a glass of wine, kind of girl - not sure if it fixes the hayfever but it certainly makes me sleep through it!

I'll try beconase & eye drops - which reminds me, ds has wrenched specs to buggery so I'm going to have to put lenses in my pink rabbit eyes...might just give up & stay home!

[MoosMa]

I was prescribed acrivastine by my doctor during both pgs, (2005 and 2007). It's Benedryl if you buy it over the counter.

[beansprout]

A pharmacist told me that wearing glasses and putting vaseline around your nose (nice) can minimise the amount of pollen getting into your system by setting up a barrier. I tried it and it did help!

[Naetha]

I'm on acrivastine (benadryl) which is fine. (prescribed btw, not just over the counter, although you can get it over the counter).

The ones you can't use are Cetirizine (di)hydrochloride and Loratadine. Anything topical is fine as well, so stuff like nasacort, anthisan, beconase or eye drops are fine,

[3madboys]

i take chlorphenamine aka piriton which is prescirbed by my gp, i have taken it through all my pregnancies and the consultant i saw last week at the hospital says it is the one they recomend you take when you are preg congratulations btw

[Roskva]

Piriton (sp?) is OK - an obstetrician checked for me in his drugs dictionary when I was in being monitored about this time last year. It makes me sleepy, so taking it at bed time stopped the runny eyes and sneezes, and gave me a good night's sleep, which I wasn't get much of because of painful hips.

[barking]

medinose is the only thing I have found really works after years of misery with tablets, steriods etc. I have been pregnant or breastfeeding for the past 7 years so have tried most alternative treatments including acupuncture, homeopathy and even a nose filter!
I use the medinose in conjunction with a netipot which uses very warm water and seasalt which you wash up your nose to wash the pollen out. I have also bought a plant spray which you fill with water and can set onto a fine mist setting and squirt it around the room, by windows, clothes - anywhere that dampens down the pollen.
then seal nostrils by rubbing a thin film of vasaline or balm to trap pollen, can also be helpful over eyelashes.

good luck

[firstyme]

Yes
Putting thin layer of vaseline inside the nostril does help a bit.make sure as soon as you are back indoors to always wash ur nose throughly with water to flush out any pollen.Wearing sunglasses also help to quite an extent. Keep your car windows up if in a car.getting plenty of sleep helped me.try getting rid of ur husband for 1 day ,switch off the phones , draw the curtains and justsleep..zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
you will def feel refreshed and energetic afterwards with a stronger immune system!!!
worked for me!!

[lazyemma]

piriton. First generation anti-histamine with no contra-indications for use in pregnancy. It was prescribed for me and I used to take the full four tablets a day (it didn't make me drowsy). I can honestly say it saved my sanity. Pregnancy made my rhinitis symptoms go through the roof: I had to blow my nose literally every two minutes all day before I started taking it.

[ravenAK]

I can have Piriton?! Really?

You ladies may just have saved dh's life!

Many thanks!

(trying the vaseline & nose-rinsing too for daytime)

[boompi]

I had terrible hayfever in June - ended up using asthma inhalers and steroids as developed breathing difficulties and eyes killed me!(Got from GP)

Otherwise used Beconase nasal spray, opticrom eye drops, Nasaleze - barrier spray - this did help and Haymax - fancy vaseline really!

Piriton should be safe, I didnt use as so sedating and i have a toddler to cope with!Some of antihistamines help with nausea too so chat to your GP.

Really feel for you.