Any suggestions - Dreadful Hay fever but I'm allergic to most antihistamines

[HazyLazyDay]

Pollen count has been very high where I live (UK) yesterday and today and will be for the next few days. I have the most awful hay fever with red, itchy eyes, extremely itchy nose, throat and ears and nose is also runny / a bit blocked. Any antihistamine that I've taken previously has made me nauseous, with headache and drowsy so I'm reluctant to take them. I suffer a little from health anxiety so I'm also worried that I might react badly as my throat is already itchy... could it swell up and cause breathing difficulties? Does anyone know what is the best one to take with the least amount of side effects as they all say that they can cause anaphylactic shock... Or is there a natural alternative that I could try?

Quercetin is very helpful for allergies.

www.verywellhealth.com/the-benefits-of-quercetin-89071

Medibee have their own website OP. I really hope they give you some relief if you get some. My life used to be hell during hayfever season.

I'd used everything from eyedrops, steroid cream for my itchy skin from the doctor, an asthma inhaler because it triggered wheeziness. Prescription antihistamines of all hues. I'd also tried nasal infra red probes, had special detergent for bedding that removed allergens, anti allergen bedding, deinonisers and air filters through the house, woody nose 'in nose' air filters. No windows open through spring summer and autumn. My bed had to have a cover over it to catch anything landing on it during the day. As soon as I came in the door I had to change my clothes and shower. I even had an eye mask in the fridge at all times to try and help calm my swollen eyes.

And yet despite all of this on occasion I could be found sat in a cold shower in the middle of the night trying to clam my skin and my puffed up eyes. My hayfever started when I was 18 and that nightmare went on year in and year out until my mid thirties. I found medibee online. Read the testimonials (and did not believe a word) but thought anything was worth a go. It's hard to explain how debilitating it can be to people who don't suffer with it. Shares in Kleenex ultra balm must have plummeted when I finally got my hayfever under control!

They might not work for you, but if your hayfever is severe like mine was. It has to be worth a try. They genuinely changed my life, tomorrow I expect to be out hiking over the moors and that would have just been impossible. I take at least one a day all year round and up the dose as and when I need to. On my very worst days, I can just take Benadryl acrivastine and be absolutely fine.

Out of everything else I used, Neo Clarityn helped the most. I don't know how you get it now, it used to be prescription only but it's a long time since I've needed it.

Montelukast? It’s usually prescribed as an asthma medication but when fexofenadine and beconase weren’t working for our youngest, the doctor prescribed them together. His symptoms cleared up completely within 3/4 days (and they were horrendous, including almost full body rash and blisters on his eyeballs from the rubbing).

@Skedall

Another vote for fexofenadrine

However in my view if you are like me and nothing was working you need to consider sublingual immunotherapy- however I am having to pay for this privately. It is not available on the NHS. It is worth every penny though

I had this on the NHS when I was about twenty. It changed my life! It was a 3 year course. I still need antihistamines for tree pollens but I can actually be outside in summer now, before I was stuck inside May-September.

I find treating eyes and nose plus an antihistamine as needed keeps it under control. I shower in the evenings before bed and keep bedroom windows shut- or use an antihistamine before bed too.

I take Zyrtec (4 a day) and fexofenadine for urticaria so could be worth trying a combination