Hay fever treatments

[candyflossy]

Hi, now that summer is here, it seems most of us are suffering from the dreaded hay fever. What treatments you found to be most effective for your children who suffer from hay fever?

DS1 started with hayfever in Yr 4 I think, and after a few days of sniffles, we ended up going to GP as he proceeded to have 12 nosebleeds 3 days - distressing for him and us. We were in London then and he was prescribed something (not sure what) that worked then, one tablet a day. We then moved to Norfolk and the first spring/summer here he had horrendous problems with HF, ending up at the GPs 4 times in the space of 3 weeks. Eventually resolved with loratidine twice a day, beconase nasal spray and sodium cromoglicate eye drops. He has needed much less of the meds so far this year, but was quite bad on Sunday, when he needed all 3.

Beconase was particularly good as the accumulation of mucous/snot was making him feel quite nauseous. However the one suitable for children is only available on prescription (or was, when we first started out on treatment)

Think it is worth going to GP as you may end up trying to several different things till you get it right.

dc is only 5y, has hayfever since last summer.
cetrizine works well for him, he gets miserable with itchy eyes and nose.

DS has loritadine for his hayfever

Loratidine or Cetirizine works fine. My kids are fussy on flavour though. Benadryl got the thumbs down, but Tescos own is very much liked.

DS2 had to try several prescriptions before we got one that worked effectively.
Loratadine works best for him and cetirizine only works a small amount. Think is probably child/person specific as cetirizine is fine for me.

Thanks for your replies. Anyone tried prevalin before?

DS takes Benadryl allergy medicine twice a day.

His eyes are still itchy and he's sniffy but not as bad as he was.

It's awful isn't it, we end up putting a wet cloth on his eyes to ease them.

Loratadine syrup (non-prescription) for itchy eyes chamomile teabags or slices cucumber on the eyes.