I have heard that honey produced in your local area can help to alleviate symptoms of hayfever and as I'm suffering badly at the moment, I thought I'd give it a try. However it seems that you can buy greek and australian honey but not honey from anywhere around here! Any suggestions of where to buy some would be great. :wave:

I would love this information too, at eight months pregnant I can't take my normal array of hayfever medication and I'm really starting to suffer.

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=118763

try that, for a few answers :)

however i think for the honey thing to work you have to start taking it well before the hayfever season starts...

and yes, finding locally produced organic wotnot honey in sheffield isn't the easiest of tasks!!! :(

I used to suffer from hayfever quite badly, until I started working in the countryside... Hasn't been a problem since, must be some kind of immunising effect!

Maybe walking in the country one day a week will help? (Eventually!)

When I use to take Honey as a kid to beat my hayfever, we used to buy it at a health shop in Bridlington when we were at our caravan which I know is no good for round here but it seemed to work for me then and we used to buy a section of real honeycomb in a wooden frame and I used to eat it whole by the spoonful.

For round here, it may be worth trying somewhere such as the Wicker Health stores who should be in the phone book and I think might be on Surrey Street on the left just before the library past the Town Hall.

Hope this assists.

i've tried the honey which is an old wives tale, it doesn't work as most people including me are allergic to grass and tree pollen which is spread in the wind!!!
Bees only use pollen from plants which only a small minortiy are allergic too!!!

I had to abandon my normal tablets for stronger ones but they seem to be struggling to cope, so the doctor said the next step maybe steriods!!!!

steroids are great for severe hayfever, you'll only get given small doses at a time because of the potential side effects, but they are the only thing i've found to be a cure... :)

sadly my current doc is an uneducated mean pain in the behind and believes i should just 'put up with it' in fact she refused to prescribe my usual strength meds and gave me useless ones instead...

needless to say i'm not going there again!!!

yeah some doctors are like that, the ones back in birmingham were just lazy i went in because my eyes had swollen shut from it and they tried too tellme and my mum it was because i hadn't been usin my eye drops or tablets the fact was that i had been taking the tablets like sweets and the eye drops but they refused to give me anything stronger.

Result we moved doctors at home, but the ones at the uni health centre on gell street are well good

I have heard that honey produced in your local area can help to alleviate symptoms of hayfever and as I'm suffering badly at the moment, I thought I'd give it a try. However it seems that you can buy greek and australian honey but not honey from anywhere around here! Any suggestions of where to buy some would be great. :wave:

Try rubbing dolphin sperm on your eyelids.It worked for me!!

yeah some doctors are like that, the ones back in birmingham were just lazy i went in because my eyes had swollen shut from it and they tried too tellme and my mum it was because i hadn't been usin my eye drops or tablets the fact was that i had been taking the tablets like sweets and the eye drops but they refused to give me anything stronger.

Result we moved doctors at home, but the ones at the uni health centre on gell street are well good

exactly, I had eye drops that were working so she took me off those and gave me ones that don't... despite me telling her at least 3 times that that was the case...

she also took me off the tablets that, ok weren't working, but put me on others i'd had before and had to move from because they weren't working :rant: wouldn't mind if she'd put me on the stronger dose.. but no...

argh!!!!

exactly, I had eye drops that were working so she took me off those and gave me ones that don't... despite me telling her at least 3 times that that was the case...

she also took me off the tablets that, ok weren't working, but put me on others i'd had before and had to move from because they weren't working :rant: wouldn't mind if she'd put me on the stronger dose.. but no...

argh!!!!

i know the afct that yours eyes have closed up and that your nearly blind and have to sniff every 10 seconds might show that the medication isn't workin, tho the one i saw the other day did say becuase my chest felt tight say sure you don't have asthma?

err no, noone in my family has ever had it its my hayfever, the doc replied i think you have asthma so told him i was gonna get a second opinion, and now have tablets that work really well, for bout 4 hours tho. the whole medication you can have and can't is stupid :loopy:

oh i have the asthma thing too, and that does get worse with hayfever, hence the need for something that actually works... yet again i'm resorting to taking more than the recommended dose of my tablets jsut to be sane enough to get to work.
i'll be off to register at a new docs next week... lets hope i can find one with slightly better knowledge....

hi, i used to get really bad hayfever till i took up qi gong. still get a little ichyness round eyes and an occasional sneeze but in comparison to what it was tis bugger all.
the qi gong that did it for me was one taught by my wing chun teacher. there's a down load about wing chun that contains a page on qi gong at www.dajia.co.uk

Try rubbing dolphin sperm on your eyelids.It worked for me!!


Er, thanks for that suggestion but I think dolphin sperm may be a bit tricky to get hold of!

I'm not a big fan of doctors so haven't been to see mine yet about hayfever, but it is making me pretty miserable. I only got it for the first time last year at the age of 23 and this year it seems to be even worse - constant sneezing, itchy eyes and tickly throat. I'll have a look at wikcer health food to see if they have any local honey and give that a try even if it'll take til next year to work! I'll just have to stick with the crappy 1 a day clarityn that only works for about 2 hours :rolleyes:

Just to let all those interested know that I found some Yorkshire honey at Zeds in Nether Edge. They had quite a big selection and it was pretty reasonable at about £3.50 a jar. Here's hoping that it works and maybe by next summer my hayfever will have dissappeared! :clap:

getting your honey from a local bee keeper works best. have it on toast in the morning before you go out. trust me it works