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Covid and Hayfever

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PlopPlop · 28/06/2022 20:03

Everyone I know is having major issues with hayfever this year, all of us who are suffering had covid around February.

I was so bad today I missed work for a few hours, other than a bit of a tickly throat and watery eyes I have never suffered from hay fever to this extent before. I had to pull over today as my eyes where streaming and burning so much I couldn’t drive!

Anyone else? Just wondering if this will be a lasting side effect of covid, and if it will eventually get better!!!

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PurpleDaisies · 28/06/2022 20:05

I think you’re linking two things which are unrelated. The pollen count has been vicious lately. Hay fever often changes through the course of your lifetime. Mine is worse every year.

correlation does not mean causation.

Em3978 · 28/06/2022 20:07

We're the opposite: DS had covid in spring and his hayfever has been significantly less this year. I've not had covid yet and my hayfever is off the scale!

lanthanum · 28/06/2022 20:15

I've found my hayfever varies significantly from year to year. I commuted for eight years along the same route. One year, the pollen when the rape was in flower was so bad I had to have a wet flannel over my face (fortunately I wasn't driving). Some years it didn't bother me at all, others it affected me but not to an extent that would have made driving a problem. I don't know if it was different strains of the crop, different atmospheric conditions, or what. Probably not wind direction as it was both sides of the road.

Last year I made a note of the week DD was really bad with hayfever (as she was in year 10). This year she was fine that week, and although there were a couple of bad days, they weren't at the same time.

CreepyDibillo · 28/06/2022 21:14

My hay-fever is very up and down, some years are worse than others. This year has been absolutely brutal, but we've also had more prolonged periods of very high pollen count. I know some people who are suffering for the first time this year, some have had covid, some have not.
I don't think the two are linked at all.

StoneofDestiny · 28/06/2022 21:43

Yes, suffering for the first time this year. Hellish itchy, watery eyes and nothing is dealing with it.

Lunar27 · 28/06/2022 21:49

My hay fever has been bad for the last few weeks. I've not had covid AFAIK.

Speaking to my project manager, he complained of exactly the same symptoms, but had never suffered from hay fever before. He's been off the last week as it turned out to be covid, which wiped him out.

I tested as my hay fever was particularly bad but was negative. Seems the symptoms sound similar.

GettingStuffed · 28/06/2022 21:50

Hay fever is bad this year, my eyes stream despite taking antihistamines

peridito · 28/06/2022 21:57

I think air pollution,traffic fumes etc are a contributory factor .

peridito · 28/06/2022 21:58

I know anti histamines are advertised as one a day but I find one in the morning and one in the evening ,helps .

Indoctro · 28/06/2022 22:16

Both me and my son had covid a few weeks ago, and the last 5 days we have started with hay fever. His eyes massive and swollen red, he is really struggling

I've had really uncomfortable eyes

Hay fever medicine has helped lots

I think it's linked to covid personally

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 28/06/2022 22:19

I agree with pp. sometimes I get hay fever other times not so much.

Penguintears · 28/06/2022 22:24

I've had mild hayfever for the last 8 years. Had covid in March 2020 (pretty sure although tests weren't available then) and since then my hayfever has gone crazy. I now have to take strong prescription strength medication and if I forget my eyes swell up so I can't see. Seems an odd coincidence to me.

OneTC · 28/06/2022 22:27

I didn't have plague and my hayfever this year has been fierce

PeppaPigIsBacon · 28/06/2022 22:29

My hayfever has been awful this year and as far as I know I haven’t had Covid. Just seems to be a bad year for pollen.

Ohdearohdearohdear6 · 28/06/2022 22:37

Opposite.

I've had LC since spring 2020 and for the 2 years I've been struggling, my hay-fever was nearly non-existent.

LC improving and this year HF is really bad again.

DuvetHugger · 28/06/2022 22:46

Really bad, been prescribed strong tablets. Also had covid in Feb

Wailywailywaily · 28/06/2022 22:52

Opposite for me, hardly had any hay fever this year had Covid in early March.

7eleven · 28/06/2022 22:56

I’m 58 and never suffered from hay fever once, until I had Covid.

MarmiteCoriander · 28/06/2022 23:02

Like others, my hayfever varies year on year. Exceptionally bad this year though. I have allergy eyes drops, nasal spray and antihistamines in the car, backpack and purse just incase. Even in a single day, it can fluctuate from wanting to scratch my eyes out to feeling normal, to then having a single nostil blocked!

To my knowledge, I've never had covid, so that link doesn't add up OP. The media have told us daily above the higher levels of pollen this year.

MayISuggestSomeThickCutSteakChipsToGoWithThat · 28/06/2022 23:12

My hay fever is horrendous this year. However I have Covid at the moment. Although had I not have been testing for work I'd have just presumed the pollen count was mega high last week and this week. I tested negative in the morning and then positive on the night time.

StaunchMomma · 28/06/2022 23:30

Hay fever is mad this year.

I keep waking up thinking I've got covid, aching all over & feeling really rough - always a negative test and feel a bit better after cetirizine and nasal sprays.

It's a mad one, for sure.

thefirstfortyeight · 29/06/2022 00:00

Hay fever's awful this year, haven't had Covid.

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PlopPlop · 29/06/2022 07:58

A mixed response! I generally have been feeling a bit shitty since I had covid, like I get a cold every couple of weeks and the last couple of weeks has just been horrific re hayfever. Yesterday was just awful I could of pulled my eyes out.

School run in 30 minutes, not looking forward to it

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Believeitornot · 29/06/2022 08:06

I’ve had covid and this year my hayfever has been off the charts at times and more so than my DH’s hayfever. (He hasn’t had covid).

I did wonder if it was my immune system going nuts - that is after all what hayfever is, your immune system over reacting to pollen.

although my hayfever hasn’t always been bad this summer - only in the last couple of weeks. So much so, it felt like a mild version of the covid I had (negative LFTs though).

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