HOW CAN YOU BEST PREPARE FOR HAYFEVER SEASON

HOW CAN YOU BEST PREPARE FOR HAYFEVER SEASON

When’s The Best Time to Start Taking Hayfever Treatment?

The best time to take most 24 hour hayfever medications is in the evening or a few hours before sleeping. This allows the body to use the allergy medications as it freely circulates in the blood to maximize the potential effects.

What’s The Best Hayfever Treatment?

I recommend nasal corticosteroids medications which include nasal sprays that significantly lower several hayfever symptoms, including fever, nasal itching, inflammation, and stop a runny nose. These prescribed medications are highly effective in treating hayfever quickly. 

What Other Things Can You Do to Help Prevent Symptoms?

  • By following simple at-home cleaning and safety tips, limit interaction or exposure with your triggers such as pollen, cockroaches, dust mites, molds, and pet dander.
  • You can intake herbal supplements such as PA-free shrub butterbur and acupuncture.
  • Get immunotherapy or allergy shots.
  • Cleanse your nasal channels with sterilized nasal irrigation.
  • Opt for hayfever medications such as decongestants, antihistamines, oral corticosteroids, nasal ipratropium, and sublingual allergy pills.

At What Stage Should You Go to A Doctor for Help?

I highly advise you to seek professional help when the symptoms fail to ease even after taking allergy medications or suffering from asthma, sinus, and nasal polyps.

Elena Ognivtseva
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Nutritionist, Cornell University, MS

I believe that nutrition science is a wonderful helper both for the preventive improvement of health and adjunctive therapy in treatment. My goal is to help people improve their health and well-being without torturing themselves with unnecessary dietary restrictions. I am a supporter of a healthy lifestyle – I play sports, cycle, and swim in the lake all year round. With my work, I have been featured in Vice, Country Living, Harrods magazine, Daily Telegraph, Grazia, Women's Health, and other media outlets.

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