Pollen Allergy

Local Treatments for Pollen Allergy and Hay Fever

 

Vaseline (Petroleum jelly)

Protect yourself outdoors with a 'pollen trap'! You can coat the inside of your nose with Vaseline and the sticky layer will trap spores, pollens, dust etc. before you inhale them. It stops immediately the irritation in your nose.

 

Nasal irrigation or nasal wash

A regular use of nasal irrigation with a neti pot or just the use of saline nasal spray can help a lot fighting hay fever symptoms. You just rinse off all the irritant air-born pollens, fungal spores, dust and animal dander.
Read more about nasal irrigation and neti pot

 

If you are not allergic to herbs, your irritated allergy eye will find this herbal eyewash very soothing:

Herbal eyewash

Mix:

• 1 teaspoon dried marigold (Calendula officinalis) flowers
• 1 teaspoon dried eyebright (Euphrasia officinalis) flowers
• 1 teaspoon dried camomile (Matricaria recutita) flowers

Pour 250ml boiling water over the herbs. Cover, and steep for a quarter of an hour. Strain through a coffee filter to remove all herb particles. Use as an eyewash or soak cotton balls in the herbal tea and apply to your eyes at least three times a day for ten minutes.
Caution: Make sure you are not allergic to any ingredient herbs!
If you do not have the time to make the herbal tea, put just a wet camomile teabag on your eyes.

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Homeopathy for Pollen Allergy and Hay Fever

Homeopathy offers a wide range of remedies helpful in different allergy conditions, like seasonal allergy etc. Most of them needs individualization of symptoms, but there are a few remedies good for hay fever as a general diagnosis.
One of them is Histaminum C30, potentized histamine, which is released in great amount during the allergic reaction. Homeopathic Histaminum is able to decrease the release and the effect of material histamine.


Other useful option is to take your allergen potentized, in a homeopathic form which can desensitize your body (the method is called isopathy).

• If you are allergic to pollens, have a pollen allergy, take homeopathic Pollen C30, made from local pollens in your neighbourhood. Start taking it 1 month prior the hay fever season (two times a week) and continue during the whole season, taking it daily.

• If you are sensitive to dust mites, take regularly homeopathic House Dust Mite C30.

• If you are allergic to mold, take the homeopathic remedy Aspergillus niger C30, which is made from the fungi.

• If you are sensitive to certain animal hair (cat or dog or horse etc.) than take a remedy made from this special animals fur.

Take this remedies 2-3 times a week, long term.

During the hay fever season you may take:

• Histaminum C30 in the morning and
• Pollen C30 in the evening.

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General Tips for Pollen Allergy Sufferers