allergic rhinitis

The throat's sore, the nose is a bit runny and, um, no butter mint folds.

I'm suffering from the old hay fever I think.

Um, I love me garden, I love me spring, but the old hay fever knocks me for six.

Uh, anyway, I, I will have to, um ...

The doctors probably wanna, gonna talk to me about my blood test results.

Still hanging around a little bit.

But we're now in spring and that brings some slightly warmer weather but also for many of us the dreaded hay fever.

And our resident pharmacist from Chemist Warehouse, Piara, is in to chat hay fever.

Bless you! How are you? Are you good? I'm good.

How are you? I'm great.

Okay, what are the biggest hay fever triggers here in New Zealand? Clearly the pollen.

Yes, pollen is the biggest trigger in New Zealand with grass pollen being the number one driver.

Oh really? I thought it was pretty flowers, but there you go.

我觉得不是过敏。

What is it though? What's the word for English? Hay fever.

Hay fever.

现在秋天了呢。 He'll probably say 过敏, and I'll go,

no, no, no. 秋天了。 He has

It

didn't help.

Yeah, but you know, you should maybe try a different type of hay fever.

It also notes that antidepressant treatment may improve asthma-related outcomes in some patients and that routine depression screening and attention to cognition may help improve care, though the authors stress that mechanisms, brain changes, and targeted interventions still need further study.

The next article, entitled Allergic Rhinitis in the Elderly, in collaboration with the area guidelines, frames allergic rhinitis in the elderly as a distinct, under-recognized condition because aging changes both nasal structure and immune function, making symptoms overlap with non-allergic rhinitis and other age-related problems.

The article emphasizes that older adults often have multimorbidity, frailty, polypharmacy, atypical symptoms, and medication safety concerns.

And it calls for tailored guidelines, better epidemiology, and simpler care pathways for this population.

They can be associated with significant allergic reactions requiring epinephrine.

How does this study impact current management guidelines? This study encourages providers to recognize that non-sesame seed and spice allergy reports should be evaluated especially in patients who are pediatric and are from certain socioeconomic groups because they can result in anaphylaxis.

The last article is Estimating Work-Related Indirect Costs in Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Using a Daily Combined Symptom Medication Score, a MASC-AIR study in collaboration with the EAACI Methodology Committee by Vieira et al.

What is already known about this topic? Allergic rhinitis and asthma have a relevant impact on work productivity, particularly in terms of presenteeism.

It's been an odd.

Crook and Wheezy and Hayfever.

Oh, Hayfever can get stuffed.

But

then when it's Hayfever season, that also means it's Waddlefest season, which is a local festival in our area that we attended.

Did you enjoy that experience?

It was unbelievably good.

And there's been some great ones in there already.

Well, we're going to be welcoming back to the show Dr. Sarah White, CEO of Jean Hales for Women's Health, who's going to take us through the theme of this year.

And we know that hay fever season is here.

My nose and my entire body is letting me know that it is here.

So we're going to chat about how nasal sprays can relieve the irritating symptoms that so often come our way when it comes to spring, especially when you're just in certain parts of Australia.

Thanks so much for helping us spread the word.

And if you want to register for Women's Health Week, which starts tomorrow, you can head to their website, jeanhales.org.au. 131873 is our number.

Justine, I believe you were suffering with some hay fever issues.

I was, and it's ironic because, good morning, ladies.

Sure does and I think we're certainly not over the influenza period yet but I was thinking about that big sneeze I had on the way in and actually it's just interesting the amount of pollen you know we can see the wattle now coming out the jacaranda there's so much of course in the air currently this warmer weather and of course when we get these changes with the wind as well picking up it does of course increase your risk of then having an allergic reaction.

And if you're someone who is susceptible to hay fever, this is the time of year when we start to see that increase.

And in fact, we see it not just in humans, of course, in animals as well.

You may be noticing that if you take your dog out regularly for a walk, they might be starting to get itchy paws, things like that.

just as we start to now see this, you know, sudden growth of flowers coming out, grass growing, of course, post this very wet winter and now this great weather coming out.

But my advice really, Graeme, to your listeners is this is the time that if you usually get hay fever, you're probably going to get it now.

So thinking about, you know, what have you got in terms of your sprays? So are you using a nasal spray? Do you use some eye drops or an oral antihistamine?

Hay fever can be very debilitating.

Yeah

... that's about 100 times more lines than you had in Hay Fever.

Fever, yeah, approximately, yeah.

But actually, um-

I was offered it.

I went to the audition.

Ironically, I went to the, um, we had our, like, a six-hour tech rehearsal for Hay Fever, and I left that and went straight out to the audition, so I was bloody exhausted after that, and yeah, got the role-

Oh

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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Read by Quarter Tone Scientific American Supplement Number 795, March 28, 1891 by Various How to Prevent Hay Fever by Alexander Rixa, M.D., New York In the May 1890 number of the Therapeutic Gazette, I furnished some contributions to the treatment of hay fever.

I reported therein a favorable result in the treatment of this mysterious disease in the experience of my last year's cases.

My experiences of this year is far more gratifying and worthy of receiving a wide publicity.

I treated six cases in all, four of which have been habitual for years to hay fever proper without complications, while the other two used to have the disease aggravated with reflex asthma and bronchial catarrh.

I succeeded in preventing the outbreak of the disease in every individual case.

The treatment I applied was very simple and consisted of the following.

Those subject to a conjunctivitis, I prescribed a 2% solution of boric acid as a wash.