Any good hayfever remedies around?

[Buda]

Thought I was getting off lightly this year - had no symptoms till Thursday. Have been really bad today. And I feel shattered.

Am taking Zirtek. Anyone found anything better?

A spoon of local honey or a glass of elderflower cordial in the morning. I avoid medication as much as possible.

Have been doing the local honey thing since January and thought it was working till today!

Elderflower cordial? Will get some tomorrow.

Would love to avoid medication but not possible.

Beconase spray.

I am wondering the same as DS1 is suffering badly at the moment. He needs something that deals with runny nose, runny itching eyes and itchy throat. Got some Sainsbury's own one-a-day tablets yesterday but not much effect as yet. (they are cetirizine, same as zirtek and benadryl).

medinose has been the very best treatment I've come across, my dc2 uses it aswell. it uses light waves to desenistise the nose. (had hayfever for 20 odd years used steriod injections, all the tablets, steriod sprays plus acupuncture, homeopathy, local honey - even tried a nose filter)

Plant spray from local garden centre, fill with water then fix onto fine mist setting and spray all over yourself, furniture, family, pets, windows etc. you don't get hayfever when it rains.

vasaline/balm smeared up nostrils and across eyelashes

nasopure is brilliant -looks very weird, they've used netipots in India for a couple of thousand years, I tried the traditional ones but found this one is more powerful at washing all the pollen out. If too strange to contemplate then I recommend sterimar

Last resort is shower and wash hair, change clothes
hope it helps

Buda - I was on zirtek last week, but it turns me into a zombie. Someone here recommended loratadine (same as clarityn). I bought 30 tablets for 99p! And I don't feel as zombie like.

loratidine , bought over the counter from chemist seems to do the trick for me

I have Clarityn syrup for DS. May try that tomorrow.

Liking the look of the Medinose but they only deliver to UK. May try and get it elsewhere.

Will also try to remember to use vaseline in the morning.

Thanks for all that!

i succumbed and have just bought beconase

mine has been awful for weks but the last week worse than ever

i have also got the local honey

I alternate loratidine and cetirizine hydrochloride (blue packet one a day and yellow packet one a day in boots ) - I go one week on one, then the next week on the other on the recommendation of the pharmacist who said that it stops your body getting "used" to the antihistamine quite so much.

I also use flixonase - same sort of stuff as beconase except that I find it has less of a nasty aftertaste as it drips down the back of your throat.

Never found eating local honey to do anything at all to help, tbh.

ERM ... not boots TESCO. (Sorry, it affects my brain...)