Hayfever

[LemonFritz]

I posted in health but got no replies. Just picked DS up, he looks like he’s been punched in the face and has spent another day inside for every break time. Teacher said she noticed him doing work incorrectly, she thinks because he is struggling with his eyes. The original post:

My DS, age 6, has awful hayfever (grass pollen). His eyes are worst affected followed by nose. We have tried piriton, loratidine and cetirizine.

We started antihistamines in March. Currently he takes 10ml cetirizine per day and additional top up doses of piriton (overdose, but by GP advice). He is tortured into eye drops, once per day if we are lucky. He wears sunglasses outside, washes his face when he comes indoors and all laundry is dried inside. He stays inside at playtimes on bad days.

He is not sleeping, utterly miserable, irritable and hates all interventions. We are going to try Vaseline around eyes and nose tomorrow, hopefully he will accept it.

Any advice or ideas, please? He tolerates oral medication but is highly resistant to any other treatments.

dd uses Opatanol (brand name if olopatadine) throughout the season, and two or three week course of flourometholone (FML) when the symptoms are at their worst. This combination works very well.

Dd is using opatanol (brand of olopatadine), and two-three week course of fluorometholone (FML) when the symptoms are at their worst. In combination these work very well.

Really feel for him. Nasal spray? Tell him not to touch the grass. Really hard as a child but he needs to not rub his eyes. I let some of my hayfever sufferers sit inside with a friend colouring on high pollen days.