hayfever
I developed hayfever sometime in my early 20′s although I can’t remember exactly when. Regardless of this, it’s always been pretty acute and I feel as if I have tried pretty much all the meds that are out there, including the prescription ones.
Anyway, last year, partly out of desperation and partly out of curiousity, I purchased the little device shown above.
The idea is that you shove the two prongs (probes?) up your nose for three minutes, three times a day and it shines a bright red light up there, which somehow inhibits the productions of histamines, which cause all the soreness and sneezing. Needless to say, I was sceptical (sound the snake-oil alert!), but for the sake of £15 (on offer from £30) it was the same cost as two and a bit prescriptions, or a few weeks of off-the-shelf pills.
And the insane thing? It only bloody works. I noticed results within the first day of using it, and within a less than a week, had consigned all my pills and eye drops to the medicine cupboard. I have no intention of using anything else this year.
Your mileage may vary, but for £15 I have never looked back! (And for anyone suffering, you have my every sympathy – hayfever sucks)
I have never looked back since trying a balm called HayMax – also from Lloyds although it’s available lots of other places too, now. Ingeniously simple its a specially developed balm you wipe under your nose and it traps pollen before it gets in. As long as it gets enough to take below the level where your haver triggers – your hayfever doesn’t trigger! very simple, a bit mad, but it works. If it doesn’t at any point in the future, I’ll give the red lights thing a go. Haymax is only £6.80 and the pots I bought last year are still going strong this year. (I bought a few so I could keep one in my handbag, one by the bed and one by the back door so I remember to put it on before going out).