Natural beauty products may feel beautiful on the skin, enhanced by the delicious aroma of organic essential oils and gentle ingredients to soothe and nurture. However the plants from which we derive actives that treat our skin so well are not always so kind to our eyes and noses at this time of year.
That’s because we are just about to enter the first major hayfever season: spring. With as many as 16 million people in the UK suffering from hayfever, this increasingly common condition brings sniffly, itchy misery for weeks and sometimes months for those who suffer the most.
The bright, sunny weather experienced today in mid-March has brought a flurry of telephone calls from those who have just started to go through the tell-tale signs of hayfever: itchy eyes, sneezing, headaches and a blocked nose.
Although there is nothing that we offer that can help with any of these symptoms, hayfever is often suffered by those who also have allergic skin conditions such as eczema. There appears to be a hereditary link that makes certain individuals more susceptible to allergies and hypersensitive to all sorts of things, a condition which is known as atopy.
Here is a calendar produced by the Met Office that provides a handy guide to what types of pollen are floating around during each month of the pollen season:
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Really intersting indeed – AND this chart seems to prove my theory. I’ve long since believed my hay fever is triggered by the pollenation of pine trees due to the build up to my hay fever symptoms and the intensity of the symptoms during late April and early May. And, the Met Office chart has clarified this for me! I feel liberated as I can now categorically say, with evidence to back it up, that I am allergic to pine trees!!! Thank you for this.
on March 22, 2012 at 1:42 pm Deborah MasonMeant to say, we are also running an online clinc on hay fever from 27 April – 3 May 2012 – so anyone who has question about hay fever can ask our panel of medical experts now – http://www.talkhealthpartnership.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=210
on March 22, 2012 at 1:54 pm Deborah MasonAh how interesting Deborah, it’s good to get to the bottom of the allergy triggers if only so you know what to avoid planting in your garden!
on March 22, 2012 at 3:36 pm AlexandraExactly!
on March 23, 2012 at 9:45 am Deborah Mason