Just a heads up for anyone else in Melbourne that gets effected by hay fever, todays is an extreme count.
I've been sneezing so much recently that i got a back muscle strain injury, which felt like someone sticking a knife in my back every time i breathed in. Not fun.
Had to go to the dr's to get a prescribed nasal spray + anti inflammatory tablets.
Guess I'm staying indoors today, i wonder if covid style masks help preventing pollen inhalation?
Also EPA Victoria website
i wonder if covid style masks help preventing pollen inhalation?
From anecdotal experience, yes. The two years Melbourne had lockdowns in spring, with masks mandated outdoors, my hayfever was the best it has ever been. It was pretty much non existent. Since then it’s been shite again.
I was also in the northern hemisphere in April (their spring) in 2022 and masks were still needed there at the time indoors, so had one on me. Turned down a street to see pollen flying everywhere - I was with a mate and our eyes watered. became itchy, our noses started running and we couldn’t stop sneezing. We chucked our masks on while walking down the street and it was instant relief.
I used this one last time:
https://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/buy/72679/nasonex-allerg…
Nasal spray is definitely better than drinking tablets in my experience.
Wearing facemask is good for this.
https://www.healthline.com/health/allergies/do-masks-help-wi…
Nasal spray is definitely better than drinking tablets in my experience.
Wearing facemask is good for this.
+1
as with covid, P2/N95/KF94-equivalent most effective
Just put your face under the tap, and snort water up each nostril, one at a time, then blow it out. Works for me.
Get the fork outta here
What about the contaminated water straight to your sinus cavity from there straight to your brain. Micro plastic hell…
Wouldn't the same thing happen when drinking water. Snorting water once or twice a month seems negligible compared to the amount of water we drink or use in cooking.
If your going to snort buy FESS from the chemist works wonders and a hell of a lot safer than plain tap water.
There is a chance of amoebic meningitis doing this, actually more likely in the shower with hot water than say the cold tap. That's why FESS has a salt solution to kill potential bacteria.
Should be on a long-term management plan if this sort of reaction occurs.
Yes, there will be worse days but if management is consistent, your body isnt trying to play catch up in one 12-24 hour period
Do you use nasonex and dymista? Also anything for itchy watery eyes, are the eye drops good to prevent it or does it just help symptoms when you get them?
Yes I use both. Dymista as a preventative once daily and mometasone as needed especially at night.
I dont have too many eye issues. I take one Loratadine a day. But if needed, use saline drops OTC from chemist.
Back muscle injury due to sneezing 🤡🤡🤡
Is that the new Shagger's back?
The horses probably got a bitta hay fever today! If ya know what I mean! Hayyyyyyyyy
COVID-style masks you say? Like the ones they've been using in Asia for decades to prevent hay fever? Those would be Asian Hay Fever preventing-style masks though.
Nup, we're Australian, and wearing masks is some sign of weakness. Sorry. Here's some concrete. /s
Thats what it feels like. But when youve been sneezing non stop for over 2 weeks to the point where you pull a muscle in your back, your willing to take the risk.
I feel you, I would totes be wearing a mask if I were you.
Haha, love the read. So true. Fn dropkicks
Yeah mask does help. When I work on the house and wear respirator - hayfever gone completely. Sometimes when my hayfever is bad I wear a p2 mask to help until meds kick in
If a mask is easy to use and comfortable to wear and can keep out a virus it should keep out pollen.
Or to put it the other way around, if it can't keep out pollen everyone was being fibbed to that it would protect them from COVID.
Tell me which it is.
if a mask keeps out a virus then it should keep out pollen - even if it isn't easy to use nor comfortable to wear :)
Yes. Think of all of us allergy sufferers today, who were terrified to go out during Covid in case we had to sneeze. I had to preface what I said a lot of the time with “I have allergies” so people didn’t run away from me like they did during swine flu. Good times.
Yup im very conscious of that too, especially if i get a random sneezing fit out in public. No one will say anything, but you know their all thinking it.
I'm in WA and the hayfever here is pretty bad too compared to my time in SA.
I have asthma too, so I have to get on top of it early. Like others here, I found wearing a mask during COVID so effective for hayfever, I now wear one whenever I'm outdoors.
2 other very effective and cheap remedies I've tried are:
sinus rinse. The FLO brand with the 100 packs refills is very cost effective at 20 cents a rinse. Do it once or twice daily. Remember to use boiled and cooled water to avoid introducing infections. Also, keep mouth open during rinse or the pressure may force water up into the ear, causing infection (ask me how I found out)
eye wash instead of eye drops for itchy eyes. I've tried the expensive anti-histamine eyedrops and they don't work for me. Unless the pollens in the eyes are removed, antihistamines can only do this much. Kind of like taking painkillers while hugging a durian. Gotta lose that durian first!
What worked for me is the $4.49 Reclens 500ml sterile saline solution paired with a $1.50 plastic eye wash cup. Rinse as often as possible, especially in the morning and before bed. Made a huge difference for me, and can be observed in the amount of crust at the corner of the eyes in the morning.
Great ideas, im open to anything/everything, as what works for one person, doesnt for another.
I forgot to take my dose of honey this year, which apparently builds up a bit of immunity.
explains why i have been struggling to breath this week
mines started haywire today instead
woke up sneezing and congested. used up 1.5 rolls toilet paper blowing my leaky nose so far
so, i performed a variation of the Buteyko breathing method and it seems to have semi-cleared my congestion.
breathing out, pinching nose, only breathe when urged.
some sort of survival mech/response and nasal blood vessel dilation?
Im not sure why, but all i know is that allergies are optional.
I say this because you never sneeze when your sleeping. But as soon as you wake up…
https://www.melbournepollen.com.au