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Hay fever already?!

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mammmamia · 22/02/2021 22:04

Has anyone starting suffering already since the milder weather this weekend? My DC usually suffer from March to June is but in the last 2 days they’ve been sneezing and saying their throats are itchy. I can’t believe it’s come this early?

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DanFmDorking · 22/02/2021 22:16

Yep, me - started Wednesday - it's tree pollen that comes first specifically the Birch Tree family.

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mammmamia · 22/02/2021 22:19

Yes - I have tracked in previous years that it starts with birch pollen. Just wasn’t expecting it in February!

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NinDS · 22/02/2021 22:21

Someone I work with said their tree pollen hay fever had also started! 😔

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ikeairgin · 22/02/2021 22:22

Yes, had a sneezing fit at work today and had to leave the shop floor because I was alarming the customers

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mammmamia · 22/02/2021 22:22
Sad
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notthemum · 22/02/2021 22:23

Sorry OP. Started getting it when i was 17. Apparently allergic to the flipping lot, would get it really badly from end feb (soon as sun came out) until end of September. (If weather very mild might even have it into October.
Still get it now and I'll be 58 this year. nowhere near as bad as when i was young though.

noname55 · 22/02/2021 22:24

Yes! I had symptoms yesterday. Thankfully went away with hay-fever/allergy wipes.

justjuggling · 22/02/2021 22:25

Yes! The last couple of days. Seems very early.

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mammmamia · 22/02/2021 22:25

@noname55 could you recommend a brand please?

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BrideofBideford · 22/02/2021 22:26

Yep it’s here

jazzandh · 22/02/2021 22:29

DH always starts with the tree pollen in February. Both he and DS1 & 2 were bad over the weekend - birch pollen main culprit here. They are taking maximum prescription strength antihistamines already - but it only normally lasts a month at this level.

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mammmamia · 22/02/2021 22:30

Thank you all it’s good to hear about others experiences.

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Missingthesea · 22/02/2021 22:59

Yes, the local birch trees and the hazel tree a few gardens away have catkins, and I have itchy eyes! Had to buy some eye drops today. My hayfever always starts like this, but it is earlier than usual.

crazycatbaby · 22/02/2021 23:06

Oh god, I thought I was being dramatic and surely it wasn't starting already 😂😢 had a scratchy throat the other day which was coming be going, and I said it felt like hayfever but surely too early. That's me till September now! Better make sure I've got enough fexofenadine....

StormcloakNord · 22/02/2021 23:17

Really really stupid question but what's the other kind of hay fever?

I know tree pollen is first but it's the one after this that I suffer hugely with!!

funtimefrank · 22/02/2021 23:19

Yes those birch- y bastards. Dd and I both started on the weekend

bitheby · 22/02/2021 23:22

I always get it in February. Tree pollen.

LunaHeather · 22/02/2021 23:23

Me too! I couldn't believe it!

EBearhug · 22/02/2021 23:30

Really really stupid question but what's the other kind of hay fever?

You can get hay-fever from almost any airborne pollen - trees, flowering shrubs, flowers, grasses, ferns, fungi spores. You may be allergic across the spectrum, which is why we lucky ones can suffer from now through to autumn, or you might be allergic only to one or two specific plants, and only suffer for two or three weeks while that particular plant flowers. Insect-pollinared plants tend to be much better than wind-pollinated ones.

Dontstepinthecowpat · 22/02/2021 23:32

Yes I lose my sense of smell around now till July. DS and I both started with symptoms today.

BashfulClam · 23/02/2021 00:33

Yes I’ve had a cough (always get a pollen
related tickly cough) and been sneezing like mad.

Giggorata · 23/02/2021 01:14

Yes, me too. I'd thought it was early this year, but having read all these posts, perhaps not. 🤧

Verite1 · 23/02/2021 01:43

Yep. Mine started on Sunday. I usually start in March, but occasionally February

thesoundofthepolice · 23/02/2021 01:47

There was a piece on this morning about how a burst of Warner weather would trick trees onto pollinating and described it as a "pollen bomb" I watched it in disbelief with 14inches of snow but it seems they were right!