Grass pollen allergy - any solutions?
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The OH seems to have a grass pollen allergy which manifests itself like hay fever that flares up really badly in the form of sneezing and nose streaming. It flared up over the weekend as all the lawns has been cut on the development where we live. She also had it very bad at a previous address where we had a ground floor bedroom overlooking the lawn. It's driving her bonkers at the moment and I wondered if anyone here had experience of this and had found a solution.
AB said:
If this works it does so only by the placebo effect.There are plenty of over the counter options available which are proven to work in most instances before we explore the hippy bulls
t options.Prof Prolapse said:
If this works it does so only by the placebo effect.
There are plenty of over the counter options available which are proven to work in most instances before we explore the hippy bullst options.
There are published papers on the subject so there may be something more to it.There are plenty of over the counter options available which are proven to work in most instances before we explore the hippy bulls
t options.http://www.bionette.ca/The-Science-s/115.htm
Monty Python said:
There are published papers on the subject so there may be something more to it.
http://www.bionette.ca/The-Science-s/115.htm
There's one paper relevant there. At a glance;http://www.bionette.ca/The-Science-s/115.htm
1) Yes that well known University of Cairo? Who?
2) Only carried out in children
3) Sample size insufficient to demonstrate efficacy
4) No control? I.e. they only compared to the weird laser thing to the weird LED thing.
5) No blinding so no account for placebo effect
6) No statistical significance although it doesn't matter given they haven't actually set out to prove it helps.
7) No comparison to conventional therapies
8) Conclusions are positive despite this obviously being unsubstantiated by the results and methodology.
Crucially if they were held to the same standards the pharmaceuticals industry are held to (or science in general), this would not be permitted to be sold in the UK as there is insufficient evidence to support the claims and it is misleading. However the medical device arm of the MHRA who licenses such things currently does not have sufficient resource to assentation evidence, so these things can only really be withdrawn because of upheld complaint or safety concerns.
There's lots of treatments available and for most people they're sufficient. Try these before wasting you money on what is a £40 red LED bulb.
AB said:
Another vote from me . As a sufferer of hay fever for most of my life I have tried most things except from a needle as I'm a big wuss and actively avoid them if I could. I found a certain pill that worked but it had awful after effects but it was really the only one that worked .
A few years ago I came across these on a special offer from lloyds pharmacy for a fiver and though I'll give it a try.
We'll blow me down but for me personally these do work . I found for best results is that to do it at night for a couple of cycles and another in the morning when the hay fever season starts.
It's literally changed my life. Seriously.
I quickly spread the word to my family who were mostly sufferers but funnily enough out of ten people it only worked on four of them including me.
So I say give it a try . I still recommend it to new friends and colleagues with various success , if it works for that person it's much better option than taking medicine.
It's only a tenner nowadays so it's only a tenner lost if it doesn't work.
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