Anyone developed Hay-Fever since having vaccine?

[Backyard72]

Might be a coincidence I suppose, I've never had Hay-Fever or any immune type issues but yesterday, 10 days after 1st AZ vaccine I started getting scratchy eyes - feels a bit like grit under my eyelids and then today as soon as I went outside both eyes started burning a bit.

My wife who does get bad Hay Fever says this sounds like what she gets.

Anyone else get this for the first time after having vaccine?

Yes, itchy eyes yesterday but I've never seen so much pollen as I have recently so I think that's the cause.

The vaccine completely got rid of my hay fever. I was awful before my first dose, but it disappeared 3 hours after my jab and hasn't come back.

It does have weird side effects.

I think it would be really hard to establish a link between AZ and hay fever at this time of year. The pollen count has been really high where I am recently and I know a lot of people who don’t usually suffer have complained of symptoms.

Pollen count is extremely high at the moment, even your typically non sufferers are getting it this year.

Mine is the opposite, usually have to take a hayfever tablet this time of year but absolutely no symptoms this year and not taking the tablets. Moderna vaccine 5 weeks ago but not particularly connecting it to that, who knows though.

It’s not unusual to develop it in adulthood. I know a few people who developed it in their forties. And the pollen this year has been BRUTAL.

Probably just a coincidence. The pollen count has been brutal this week. My hayfever has been the worst I've ever known it and my dad, who hasn't suffered from it for years, said he could barely see yesterday due to his eyes itching and watering. (Neither of us have had a vaccine recently btw!)

OK good to know. Thanks for all your replies. Hopefully it won't become an annual thing!

Hi Op, cannnot speak for a relationship between Covd jabs and hayfever, but I can absolutely point to people I know including me that suddenly became prone during adulthood. I was 21. My sister was 37 and my mum was 80. It's worse for me on cloudy days.

I was in my 30s when I first had hayfever. Just came on one year and varies from year to year now.

I am asthmatic and have fairly severe pollen allergy that is on the whole well controlled. However, in the week following my vaccine I noticed more symptoms and needed to take a lot more medicine. After about ten days it all went back to normal. I suspect it was a mild reaction to the vaccine.

I'm the opposite.

I've had 1 AZ dose so far and I've not suffered from hay fever at all when I usually do. I think its coincidence though tbh.

I wondered whether it might have been connected to the immune response provoked by the vaccine that builds over a number of days, not so much the vaccine content. I tend to get it a bit but not usually this time of year. The hayfever symptoms have been off the scale and get worse at particular times of day, presumably due to behaviour of plants (and suggests it's nothing more sinister). Eyes, skin and nostrils all affected.

No, but I did get adult onset hay fever (which at the time was rather poo-pooed) and the pollen count has been really high in the first part of this week.

Report it as a possible side effect via the Yellow Card scheme even though there's also a good chance this is coincidence. If people don't report then it sets back no one will ever examine the possibility

I’ve had hay fever symptoms this week and I don’t usually but we live rurally and the farmer mowed the grass behind our house today. Our puppy liked to run through the grass when it was long and you could see the pollen coming off it! The only other time I’ve had it is when I was doing my GCSEs which was bad timing but maybe related to being more stressed?

My son had a bad cough that wouldn't go away, and the doctor said more people are suffering from hay fever and other respiratory ailments this year than usual for some reason. My DC haven't had the vaccine so I can't see how it would be linked. Maybe with lockdown over the past year and less pollution the pollen is stronger this year?

I usually suffer badly from hay fever but this year it's practically non-existent.

Coincidence, I think.

I get it every year but it’s worse this year. Mine is based on grass pollen and grass has grown much better than last year because of all the rain and then warm weather.

I read an interesting article yesterday that said people’s perceptions that hayfever is worse this year may be based on the fact that we are all now programmed to analyse every little sneeze, sore throat, headache etc in case it might be a sign of Covid whereas previously we might not really register that we don’t feel quite right until it has been going on for a period of time.

I had covid in March 2020 and my usually very mild hay-fever went absolutely nuts to the extent that I had to go on strong prescription medication and barely leave the house. It came back even stronger this year.

One of the symptom questions on the Zoe app is whether you've had an increase in allergy symptoms.

My hayfever is horrendous this year. I only started with it three years ago, so it can just suddenly start. I can't see it being anything to do with the vaccine, it's just that your body is having all the pollens thrown at it and it doesn't like it.

I have asthma. Have just taken a second piriton tonight, coughing bad as well as eyes, sneezing. Had both jabs. Three hours in a mask at hospital this week pushed me over the edge I think

I agree with you OP. I've made this thread this morning about mine.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4274707-Did-the-vaccine-make-your-hay-fever-symptoms-worse?msgid=108338623

I have friends who have been complaining about hay fever since March. Why did it get to me just now in June after having the vaccine?

Some people are worse with tree pollen (March/ May) some with grass pollen (June).

There was an article on the bbc news website this week explaining why bay fever is really bad this year. It’s to do with the weather.