is there a very strong pollen type about at the moment?

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As I haven't suffered form hayfever before, but my eyes are really sore today and itchy like when you chop onions.

Dd is coughing like a banshee, she has had cold like symptoms since thurs, which developed into this dry cough.

She used to have an asthma cough when tiny, for about 2 yrs (every night cough cough). She now seems to fall with bad coughs everytime there is one going ruond, and has to take time off school.

Just wondering if it's the pollens that are getting to us?

My dd's symptoms are badd today but we have just walked over the forth road bridge in really high winds.;

the blossom is out and it's been very windy recebntly. lots more people cutting grass and still some trees that have not yet done whatever they do that makes me sneezy!

my asthma worse this week than it has been too

yes that's true, lots of blossom about.

I just wondered if there was anyting specific, as a couple of weeks ago i went into my local health food shop, and there was a discussion about certian fungi causing allergies/cold symptoms.

had never even thought of it till now. a freind in the usa, says her son's hayfever is bad.

It's mainly tree pollen at this time of year. Grass pollen is in the main part of summer. My hayfever usually stops after all the trees are out in leaf.

Funily enough, when i looked in back garden I saw all these little bud/small flowers on the floor by back doot, that have travelled by wind to settle.

She is in bednow with a hacking cough, i hate these coughs, she can't sleep, and i end up a nervous wreck.

dh is sneezing away and he doesn't usually get affected with hay fever. On the other hand ds7 suffers asthma and always gets a lot worse in hay fever season, and he is just fine at the moment! So sorry, that prob doesn't help you a lot really!

It's probably just a cold/cold cough. it just drives me insane. I used to get this type of cough, esp late teens and 20's.

Each breath is a cough. I've given her Medised, Benidryl, to no effect at all. Am hoping the Medised will kick in soon. Suppose it will be yet another call to the school absence line tommorow. Poor dd.

meant to say, yes to the Rapeseed, it's very ripe and yellow sin't it.

I retch when i smell it lol!

vick rubbed into the soles of your feet stops you coughing at night!

moose, i was looking at other threads, and have put vicks on her feet about half an hour ago pmsl!!

She has just come in and complained her feet are too hot can she take the socks off, but i have said no.

She's still coughing, maybe it takes a while?

Ha ha - i tried it on mine when I had REALLy bad cough and tight chest earlier in year. I slept lot better. My feet felt lovely warm and cosy. Maybe that why it worked! a cosy happy sleep? Or like a reflexology massage to put it on. The socks just stop it going on cover I spose!

hmm well, up until about 2 mins ago she hadn't coughed for about 15 mins, so i agree it's a prob a cosy comforting lull thing!!

but as soon as I was aware she hadn't coughed for a while, she started.

Isn't that typical! I told my mother in law, and she refused to try it, thinking I was winding her up! i wasn't!

well it's one hour now and only one coughing incident !

Hi - how is she today? Did she sleep all night then?

hello moose! she only slept thru!!!

I couldn't believe it. The cough is still there tho it has broken alot. It's wether to send her back in tomorrow, or let her fully recover is the prob.

Well! Thats great - I bet you tried it again tonight then!!