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Knowing what’s causing your symptoms is important for choosing the right treatment.
If you’ve got hay fever, or asthma, or both, it’s important to make sure they’re well managed.
Hay fever symptoms will improve over time for most – but there are many things you can still do in the meantime to reduce hay fever severity.
The answer might surprise you.
Struggling with watery, itchy red eyes and a runny, congested nose? Here are your options for hay fever treatment.
A number of environmental factors, including thunderstorms, are likely to be contributing to the current hay fever havoc.
Sublingual immunotherapy reduces hay fever symptoms by changing the immune system’s response to allergens.
Research suggests there could be a link between hay fever and the microbiome. Exploring this connection paves the way for potential treatments.
Our genetics, immune systems and conditions in the environment around us can all play a role in susceptibility to hay fever.
Hay fever treatment options range from common over-the-counter products to specialist medicines.
Pollen can trigger thunderstorm asthma, even in those without diagnosed asthma.
It’s a long-term treatment – people having allergen immunotherapy typically notice improved symptoms after six to 12 months.
A third La Niña event in a row could bring dangerous conditions for people with allergies – but we’ll need better continuous monitoring to be sure what’s coming in the future.
With spring’s arrival, it’s important to know which plants might exacerbate hay fever. Surprisingly, it’s not native wattles you have to watch out for.
Evidence has shown that people with allergies and asthma are at lower risk of contracting COVID-19. Here’s why we think this might be.
COVID symptoms have become milder over the course of the pandemic. While this is a good thing, it might make them more easily confused with allergy symptoms.
As climate change drives pollen counts upward, that could potentially result in greater human susceptibility to other viruses, as well.
Although it can sometimes be challenging, there are ways to distinguish respiratory symptoms caused by a virus and those caused by an allergy.
If you get hay fever, minimising your exposure to grass pollen is likely to be useful. Fortunately, it’s becoming easier to keep track of the pollen count. But what do you do when it’s high?
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Professor of One Health, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor & Head of Projects, York St John University
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Respiratory Allergy Stream Co-chair, National Allergy Centre of Excellence; Professor and Head, Allergy Research Group, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Immunology and Allergy, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor in Biomedical Sciences, University of Canberra
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Professor of Medicine University of Melbourne and Director of Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital., The University of Melbourne
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Respiratory Allergy Stream member, National Allergy Centre of Excellence; Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Associate Professor and Environmental Health Scientist, Macquarie University
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Paediatric Allergist and Immunologist, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Physician trainee, researcher, Australian National University
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Professor of Asthma, Allergy & Respiratory Science, King's College London
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Head of Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, Alfred Health, Monash University
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Staff Specialist General Paediatrician at John Hunter Children's Hospital, Newcastle, Australia. Conjoint Lecturer & PhD student, University of Newcastle
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Honorary Staff, UCL
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Senior Staff Specialist in Paediatric Allergy and Immunology at John Hunter Children's Hospital Newcastle NSW Conjoint Lecturer in Paediatrics, University of Newcastle
