Please help - dreadful hay fever symptoms and nothing seems to be helping much

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Really hoping that someone can help as the situation is getting very bad. My daughter suffered from hayfever last year - not bad but it was accompanied with frequent, profuse nosebleeds that took hours to stop. This year she has very bad hayfever symptoms. What she has been treated with doesn't seem to be doing much; can anyone pleases advise what to do for improvement?

Pre GP I was giving piriton which has some mild improvement. The GP then prescribed Loratadine - 10 ml once-a-day. Have been using for 10 days and may have had mild improvement but did not help eyes/nose. This GP said any additional eye drops or nose sprays were unhelpful and just gave us the loratadine.

She soldiered on and we saw different GP a few days ago. She prescribed Telfast tablets (fexofenadine hydrochloride) one tablet twice a day, an aqueous nasal spray (flizonase) and sodium cromoglicate 2% eyedrops. Again not much improvement and now she has two tiny little red pinpricks for eyes and can just about breathe through her nose.

Are there are standard treatment regimes for this so that when one doesn't work the doctor tries the next because we are at the stage stage where my daughter can't sit at a desk at school and I am worried the school is going to ask for her to go home. Can anyone please suggest different medicine? treatment? Would something like prevalin allergy spray help and can I just add this to the above regime? I'm really hoping someone has found something that helped. Also are there experts in this - can you be referred to allergy testing and any event will that actually help with treatment?
Thanks very much

I find nasal spray much better than pills. Takes a couple of days to take effect.

I can't offer any advice about meds, but I had horrible hayfever as a child and a few things seemed to help:

• wearing wrap-around sunglasses outside
• avoiding being outdoors in the evening and early morning, and avoiding long grass if possible
• keeping dust / pollen in the house to a minimum (change clothes when coming inside, wash hair, vacuum/sweep regularly)
• Might also be worth looking at air purifiers. We had one but I'm not sure whether it helped.
• Have heard of using vaseline or similar around nose too, but never tried it.

Best of luck with it - being itchy all the time is rubbish. Also - mine improved greatly in late teens, so it may not always be a problem.

I've had 28 years of this and am feeling utterly miserable. I'm really sorry to tell you that nothing has ever worked for me to get rid of the symptoms properly, but eye drops are helpful. Also start taking the antihistamines a few months prior to hay fever season.
Next year I am going to insist on being referred to the immunology help or the injection. I am prepared to pay privately if my doctor won't refer me.
It is honestly a miserable time of year for us. If she plays outside having a shower when she comes in will help, sunglasses, Vaseline around her nose. Don't hang her bedding or clothing out on the washing line, otherwise she won't get relief at night.
I keep telling myself that it's only another few weeks....
Also I had a nose infrared light thing as a child. It's quite an odd thing and I've not had it as an adult but it might be worth a try. You put two light rods up your nose and the infrared light is meant to desensitise your nose to react to pollen.

You could look at alternatives like turmeric and ginger. These are amazingly effective for my ds who has bad allergies. Either buy the capsules or make a tea.

Omega 3 capsules (evening primrose oil\starflower oil) help too.

Also look at her dairy intake, ds was loads better when he was dairy free. (he's adult now and doesn't take any notice of me but he still suffers!).

Thanks for all these helpful answers - will follow up on all of these.