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Posted by Loosecanon on August 6, 2008, 4:10 am
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> Question Hayfever:::
> I've just been in the garden and have an allergy to my garden.
> Whats the best easy way to avoid it besides not going into the garden.
> Its gets worse every year.
> Skin itches, sneezing coughing and runny nose, when this happens.
> I'm a tough bloke but this has got me wheezing and avoiding my husbandry
> duties (in the garden that is)
I do a fair bit of gardening work and the hayfever for some plants are worse
than others. Here are some that get me:-
Pine Trees when in flower
Olive trees in flower
Ivy anytime - is very dusty and full of mights
Rosemary - never used to bother me but a customer has a hedge of it and the
dust kills me.
For others it will be grasses in flower. I did see something about asthma
weed being a killer but have not encountered it in WA.
I was doing a job pruning Ivy on a fence. My eyes just ran and my nose ran
as well. I was suffering so bad that when I knocked off for lunch I got some
antihystamines from a chemist. They were a non drowsy type called Claratyne
I think. I was over it in ten minutes.
Just before xmas I had to clear a 70 metre long wall by 2 metres high of
ivy. I took the same stuff without a hint of the sinus problems. I did wear
a mask as well and at the end of a day I had to dispose of it because it was
caked in the dust. I also wore sunglasses and they had to be cleaned a bit
too.
If you can locate something doing it to you get rid of it or dose up.
My ivy allergy is nothing compared to a lady 2 doors up from me. She comes
up in welts and that's from airborne dust.
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