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I don't mean to flood the thread with pseudoscience but this year I have been the least affected by hayfever since I started getting it during adolescence.
A couple of years ago, I started to take probiotics twice a day after hearing and doing a little digging in to the gut's relationship with the immune system (and not being able to afford helminth treatment). Processed sugars have also been greatly reduced to very occasional bits of posh chocolate but other than that, no major dietary changes.
My hayfever is caused by grass pollen, and usually the months of May, June and some of July are spent huffing an asthma pump and constantly being short of breath, amongst all the usual sneezing and itching.
Last summer was an enormous improvement – very little asthma symptoms but still a lot of sneezing and itching.
This year has been a transformation. It could be a coincidence – after all, I never had allergies as a kid and one day it just started so maybe it can stop in the same manner.
Not one bout of asthma this year. I did fuck-up and drink loads of red wine which brought on some tightness of the chest but that wore off on its own fairly quickly. DON'T DRINK ALCOHOL. Red wine, especially, for some reason.
There's been a bit of sneezing and itchy eyes but we're talking an order of magnitude less than previous years.
The only downside is now I'm too scared to stop taking the probiotics so I'll be coughing up for the rest of my life for them...
But anyway, the hayfever is pretty much gone. Not sure about the dog allergy.